Oklahoma offers pregnant residents special Medicaid coverage. That coverage used to last only 60 days after delivery, but under a new policy, that coverage will run for a full year instead. StateImpact’s Logan Layden and Catherine Sweeney discuss how the policy will affect thousands of new parents in Oklahoma.

Oklahoma State University is adding a bachelor’s of nursing program to its Stillwater campus this fall. The addition will help combat the state’s nursing shortage.

Oklahoma has the federal sign off it needs to expand postpartum Medicaid coverage. The policy is expected to help bring down the state’s high maternal mortality rate.

Oklahoma's only historically Black college announced it is cancelling all outstanding charges its students incurred over the last three semesters.

Oklahoma Board of Education passes Secretary Ryan Walters' new rules addressing sex education and gender.

House Bill 2177 bans care for minors, but it also bans insurance coverage and public funds for trans Oklahomans of all ages.

The Oklahoma House of Representatives moved to ban classroom instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity Tuesday with the passage of a bill that uses nearly identical language to Florida’s so-called “Don’t Say Gay” Bill.

The Oklahoma Supreme Court issued a ruling Tuesday, stating definitively that Oklahomans have a right to life-saving abortions even before an emergency.

Recent pushes from the Oklahoma legislature to target 2SLGBTQ+ issues in schools and medicine have mobilized some Oklahomans to fight back. StateImpact’s Beth Wallis has the story of the Transgender Action Choir, who is lifting their voices to speak up.

Oklahoma City Representative Mauree Turner — the legislature's only open nonbinary member — is the target of attacks on their race, gender and religion following a move earlier this week by House Republicans to formally censure the Democratic lawmaker.