With Walters absent, State Board of Education hires attorney Ryan Leonard after forcing special meeting
After threatening to take legal action against Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters if he did not post the legally required Open Meeting Act...
Decision to end 300 mental health contracts will ‘directly affect thousands’ in Oklahoma
Citing the need to bring a bloated budget back under control, interim Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services Commissioner Greg Slavonic...
‘A disaster if they don’t have races’: Jockey pay dispute with thoroughbred owners down to the wire
(Update: No agreement was struck to end the jockey pay dispute described below by the Tuesday, Sept. 2, deadline. Five jockeys did agree to...
Hill order means Freedmen unlikely to vote in 2025 Muscogee Nation elections
Principal Chief David Hill signed an executive order Aug. 28 requiring the Muscogee Nation Citizenship Office to "not issue citizenship cards or any form...
Rep. Ty Burns resigning 48 hours after guilty pleas
Amid calls by Gov. Kevin Stitt, Democratic legislative leaders and the chairwoman of the Oklahoma Republican Party that he relinquish his House District 35...
After Cherokee Nation, UKB chiefs speak, Muscogee Council shelves resolution about their dispute
The Muscogee National Council indefinitely postponed consideration of a resolution that would have sided with the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in a...
‘Serious charges’: Rep. Ty Burns pleads guilty to domestic abuse, assault involving family members
Accused of trying to "gouge" his wife's eye out on Thanksgiving 2024 and of running his wife's former mother-in-law and their teenage daughter off...
Despite inspection progress, Comanche County still seeks ‘long-term solution’ for jail capacity
Despite a year's worth of conversations about options to end its overcrowding issues, the Comanche County Detention Center still has more detainees than beds,...
Drummond opinion wrecks OHP plan to transfer ‘primary’ call authority to metro police
Nearly two months after the Department of Public Safety announced plans to shift "primary call responsibility" from the Oklahoma Highway Patrol to local police...
10th Circuit: Wagoner County officers potentially liable in death of Jeffrey Krueger
(Editor's note: This story includes graphic descriptions of a traffic stop and a photo showing blood on the road. The 10th Circuit Court of...
