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ACLU of Oklahoma Executive Director Ryan Kiesel speaks at the Capitol on May 20, 2016 about the grand jury's findings on the state's execution protocol

State, Civic Leaders React To Oklahoma Grand Jury Execution Findings

Oklahoma’s top officials say they’re taking time to thoroughly read a scathing 106-page report released Thursday criticizing Oklahoma’s execution…

The three victims of the 1977 electrocution accident at Oklahoma State University.

Oklahoma State University’s 1977 Homecoming Also Marred By Tragedy

The recent tragedy at the Oklahoma State University homecoming spread a wave of grief across the state as Oklahomans mourned the death of four people,…

Andy Danison holds a section of dinosaur bone in a paleontology lab at the OSU-Tulsa campus in Tulsa, Okla., on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2024.

Oklahoma’s state fossil is known as an enormous carnivorous dinosaur. Did it ever exist?

New research from Oklahoma State University suggests the fossil is not the documented Saurophaganax.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Tulsa office snapped this photo of the Webbers Falls Lock and Dam in late May 2015.

Oklahoma’s Economically Vital Seaport Still Struggling After Rains Scuttle Shipping

Two and a half million tons of wheat, fertilizer, steel, and manufacturing goods pass through the Port of Catoosa each year.But not in 2015. The nation’s…

(L to R): Rachel River, Lindsey Smith, and Erica Bonner discuss their work on the Mabel Basset Balance. Prisoners at Mabel Bassett Correctional Center in McLoud participate in an award-nominated prison journalism program.

Incarcerated women in Oklahoma find their voices through journalism

The Prison Journalism Project found a willing partner in Kay Thompson, DOC's communications chief. The former reporter gave approval and support to the projects.

Why North Carolina Is Putting Fewer People Behind Bars As Oklahoma's Prison Population Climbs

Several years ago, legislators in both Oklahoma and North Carolina began taking steps to address rising incarceration rates.The number of incarcerated…

Oklahoma City Bombing: 20 Years Later

KGOU and our Oklahoma Public Media Exchange partners' coverage of the Oklahoma City bombing at the 20th anniversary and beyond.

Demonstrators gather outside Evans Hall on the University of Oklahoma campus Monday morning to protest the video with racist chants allegedly by Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity members.

Two Students Expelled From University Of Oklahoma Over Racist Video

Updated 8:05 p.m.: Apologies from two students involvedTwo students involved in the video where a bus full of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity members…

Watch NPR Music's film screening of 'Karen Dalton: In My Own Time'

Director Robert Yapkowitz and singer-songwriter Margo Price join Bob Boilen in a live conversation about this new documentary on the folk singer.

Oklahoma State Sen. Lonnie Paxton, R-Tuttle, presides over a meeting of the Public Safety Committee, of which he is chairman, on Feb. 22, 2021.

A Bill To Roll Back Aspects Of Oklahoma Criminal Justice Reform Advances

A bill that would modify State Question 780, a 2016 voter-approved ballot initiative that reclassified several drug and property offenses from felonies to…

Long Story Short: OSDE personnel payments raise questions

Oklahoma Watch, April 23, 2025

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