Oklahoma Voice

State Superintendent Ryan Walters has sued three federal agencies responsible for immigration enforcement, accusing President Joe Biden’s administration of imposing a financial burden on Oklahoma schools through a “repeated failure” to secure the nation’s southern border.

Oklahoma Senate Democrats unveiled on Monday a set of policy priorities focused on worker wages, education funding, health care and the public’s voice in government.

House lawmakers voted Tuesday to clarify who can use the women’s restroom at the back of the legislative chamber at the Capitol.

Three Republican lawmakers filed an appeal with the Oklahoma Supreme Court Dec. 19 in an effort to overturn an $127 million OG&E rate increase approved by the Corporation Commission.

State officials still aren’t certain what they plan to do with 240 acres of land in the middle of Norman that currently house one of the state’s in-patient mental hospitals.

Efforts to bring back the prison rodeo to the Oklahoma State Penitentiary will continue during the Legislature’s upcoming session.

Child killer Kevin Ray Underwood was put to death Thursday at Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester.

A $1.2 million signing bonus program drew 61 teachers to schools in rural Oklahoma, the state Department of Education reported Tuesday.

Kingfisher Public Schools cut 22 teaching, administrative and support staff positions as it continues to grapple with the fallout of a $5 million lawsuit settlement over alleged hazing.

Del City business owners worry that a new county jail, which is earmarked to open within a few miles of them, will negatively impact their livelihoods if a court ultimately allows it to move forward.