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Rep. Jon Echols previews the 2021 Oklahoma legislative session
If you want to know how the Oklahoma Legislature's 2021 session is shaping up, then listen to today's episode of Live from the News...
The week in coveducation: Stitt continues push for in-person learning
(Update: This article was updated at 9:30 a.m. Monday, Jan. 25, to reflect a correction issued by OKCPS communications staff regarding a statement the...
Trent Smith appointed to State Board of Education
Gov. Kevin Stitt today named former Oklahoma Employment Security Commission commissioner and former University of Oklahoma football player Trent Smith as his appointment to...
Oklahoma represented on inauguration stage as Biden calls for unity
WASHINGTON — Native sons who rose from small towns to touch the hearts of worldwide audiences, Garth Brooks and Woody Guthrie, represented Oklahoma during...
Cheat sheet: 35-year teacher, parents vie for Putnam City School Board...
Three candidates will appear on the primary ballot for Office No. 3 of the Putnam City Schools Board of Education: incumbent board member Sky...
‘You do your duty’: Oklahoma National Guard sends 394 members to...
WASHINGTON — Hundreds of Oklahomans did not expect to witness history at President Joe Biden’s inauguration today, but the Jan. 6 insurrection at the...
Cheat sheet: Chris Lewis faces Brandi Studley in Norman Ward 1...
(Correction: This article was updated at 2:15 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 20, to note that Finn Guttery publicly announced a withdrawal from the Norman Ward...
With the nation tense, MLK Day is different in 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Martin Luther King Jr. Day this year might look different to Black Americans, and not just because of cancellations owing to...
The week in coveducation: New school quarantine policy met with criticism
A new state policy that gives school districts the option not to require students to quarantine if they've been exposed to someone with COVID-19...
State frustrated as feds fumble COVID vaccine booster shots
Federal reserves of booster doses for COVID-19 vaccines were expected to be a shot in the arm for Oklahoma's vaccination capabilities in coming weeks,...
