KGOU - Site Search | KGOU - Oklahoma's NPR Source

Oklahoma House and Senate welcome new members

New and re-elected members of the Oklahoma House and Senate have been sworn in with their colleagues as the 2025 Oklahoma legislature begins to take shape.

Davis Correctional Facility in Holdenville is one of two private prisons in Oklahoma.

Stabbings soar at Southeast Oklahoma private prison

Stabbings at the Holdenville prison through July more than tripled since 2021, according to Hughes County emergency medical services call data.

Oklahoma AG opinion opens funding for eviction prevention

Oklahoma cities might be one step closer to reducing the number of people evicted in the state after Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond on July 12 issued an opinion regarding constitutional uses of taxpayer money.

Nancy Novosad, a pre-K teacher's aide at Ranchwood Elementary in Yukon, reads to students on April 26.

National preschool enrollment surged last year; Oklahoma’s continued to fall

A new national report ranks Oklahoma fifth in preschool access for 4-year-olds, but researchers say public awareness needs to be heightened to help restore the program’s reach to prepandemic levels.

Donrae Moore (left) placed her son Skyler (to her left) on the waiting list for state-funded services for the developmentally disabled. The family is still waiting for those services.

An Anguished Wait For Parents Of Oklahoma's Developmentally Disabled

Ten years is a long time to wait for state help to improve the care of a developmentally disabled child or other relative.But that is the current wait…

KGOU recognized for outstanding work with Oklahoma SPJ awards

KGOU and StateImpact Oklahoma reporters and producers scored 18 awards in the Oklahoma Society of Professional Journalists awards, as determined by journalism peers.

A 28-year-old Afghan refugee who served U.S. interests in his country as a member of the CIA-backed Kandahar Strike Force looks into the only working bathroom of his northwest Oklahoma City apartment, where the ceiling leaks while the water runs. To his left, a donated table and chairs are stacked in the corner because his family customarily sits on the floor to eat over a smaller surface.

Why some Afghan refugees in Oklahoma live in squalor

An Oklahoma Watch review of more than 100 complaints, apartment unit tours and interviews with residents paint a portrait of unsafe and substandard living conditions for many Afghan refugees who resettled in Oklahoma City and Tulsa.

A worker inspects a segment of the Keystone Pipeline before it's lowered into a trench near Stroud, Okla.

With Keystone Pipeline Online, Analysts Expect it To Help Bust Oklahoma’s Oil Glut

The Obama administration still hasn’t decided whether to move forward with the northern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline, which has been stuck in…

ECDC Public School's class watches intently as teacher Sommer Lyons shares the story of the Easter Bunny.

Oklahoma Reading Retention Bill May Be Heard Monday

Students worried about repeating third grade for failing Oklahoma’s reading test will have to wait until Monday for a potential legislative reprieve – a…

How come the parking meter was invented in Oklahoma?

In this month’s How Curious, host Rachel Hopkin looks into how, when, and why the parking meter was invented here in Oklahoma City back in the 1930s. In the course of her investigation she learns about the polymath behind it, inventive reactions to its installation such as tying a horse to the meter post and paying for the metered spot for a game of bridge, and some beautiful women in golden bikinis.

Father Stanley Rother baptizes a child in Guatemala.

Oklahoma Priest Stanley Rother To Be Beatified In Oklahoma City

The Catholic church will beatify a priest from Okarche, Oklahoma this weekend. Three assailants murdered Father Stanley Rother in Guatemala in 1981. Pope…

Thanks for supporting KGOU and our service to Oklahoma!

With the latest on-air fundraiser over, we say thanks to the more than 300 people who contributed to KGOU and who believe in the service we provide to Oklahomans.

Search results for