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Our countdown of the top Oklahoma stories of 2025, as heard on Capitol Insider, leads us from number five to number one.

With the start of the 2026 legislative session coming February 2nd, lawmakers are hearing budget requests from state agencies, many asking for more appropriations.

As he prepares to deliver his State of the State address, Governor Kevin Stitt discusses what he's learned and what he wants to accomplish in his final year as governor.

On the Scene w/Brett Fieldcamp, Jan. 29, 2026

KGOU program director Jim Johnson received a Media in the Arts Award presented by the Oklahoma Arts Council during this year's Governor's Arts Awards ceremony.

WildCare Oklahoma in Noble is one of the nation’s largest wildlife rehabilitation centers. In this month’s How Curious, host Rachel Hopkin visits WildCare to find out how it got started, how it operates and how it manages to do the work it does, rehabbing thousands of injured or orphaned animals every year so that they can get back to their wild lives.

Oklahoma Watch, Jan. 28, 2026

Airdate: Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026 at 12 p.m.

Ryan Gaylor is an OU senior who joined KGOU in 2020. He hosts All Things Considered on KGOU each weekday. Ryan also reports and produces stories for the Oklahoma Public Media Exchange, the state's public radio collaborative.

Jess Mador comes to WYSO from Knoxville NPR-station WUOT, where she created an interactive multimedia health storytelling project called TruckBeat, one of 15 projects around the country participating in AIR's Localore: #Finding Americainitiative. Before TruckBeat, Jess was an independent public radio journalist based in Minneapolis. She’s also worked as a staff reporter and producer at Minnesota Public Radio in the Twin Cities, and produced audio, video and web stories for a variety of other news outlets, including NPR News, APM, and PBS television stations. She has a Master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York. She loves making documentaries and telling stories at the intersection of journalism, digital and social media.

Ammad Omar oversees coverage of the western United States for NPR, and serves as the editorial lead at NPR West in Culver City, California.