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Storms Move Through Oklahoma Early Friday, State Preps For More Severe Weather

Showers and thunderstorms continue to move across central Oklahoma Friday morning, some of which brought heavy rainfall and quite a bit of lightning…

Connor Nguyen, at right, and Griffin Williams, second from right, representing an esports team at the University of California, Irvine, compete at the Shine eSports festival in Boston in 2017. A growing number of U.S. schools offer at least partial schola

Oklahoma Colleges Bet On Esports

Universities across Oklahoma are developing esports programs to attract new students. Journal Record reporter Brian Brus discusses how the market share…

Long Story Short: U.S. Supreme Court hears St. Isidore arguments

Oklahoma Watch, April 30, 2025

Chemya Melvin shows the sink that hangs from the bathroom wall in the public housing rental where her fiance, Sanjaysia Caruthers lives. The home on NE 17 in Oklahoma City was one of 30 recently inspected by HUD as part of the Oklahoma City Housing Authority's regular HUD inspections.

Oklahoma City fails housing inspections, Tulsa embraces HUD transition

Oklahoma City public housing this year received an unusually low inspection score of 7% as HUD rolls out NSPIRE, a new inspection protocol that some Oklahoma housing professionals see as an unfunded mandate.

The Oklahoma Health Care Authority manages Oklahoma's Medicaid program, known as SoonerCare.

Oklahoma Medicaid director ‘transitioning out’ of role following appointment of new OHCA director

This comes amid new leadership at the Oklahoma Health Care Authority (OHCA), with Director Clay Bullard taking the place of former agency CEO Ellen Buettner, who departed to assume the role of CEO at the Regional University System of Oklahoma.

A Zoom meeting of Oklahoma's State Board of Education from earlier this year.

Oklahoma’s State Board Of Education Begs Local School Leaders To Mandate Masks

Oklahoma’s State Board of Education again passed a motion further encouraging but not requiring school districts to mandate masks in their…

Long Story Short: Our state under Stitt

Oklahoma Watch, Oct. 26, 2022

Maine Sending Elephants Back To Oklahoma

Two elephants living at Hope Elephants rehabilitation center in Maine will be sent back to a sanctuary in Oklahoma in the wake of the crushing death of…

Oklahoma Voter Profile: Agustin Trejo

As KGOU and KOSU began crafting ideas for our collaborative election project Oklahoma Engaged, we were interested in several forms of storytelling. This…

Oklahoma Tornado Project Photography Exhibit

The KGOU Oklahoma Tornado Project and the Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center have collaborated to present a month-long exhibit of photographs called “Not…

Unemployment Up In 75 Oklahoma Counties

County unemployment rates increased in Oklahoma in June, according to data released Tuesday by the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission, and vary…

Oklahoma National Stockyards back on the market

A pending sale of the Oklahoma National Stockyards has fallen apart, putting the current owner back on the hunt for a new buyer.

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