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Oklahoma Watch, Sept. 17, 2025

In the announcement Monday afternoon, the governor said the Oklahoma Highway Patrol and the Oklahoma Department of Transportation were beginning cleanup efforts similar to those undertaken in Tulsa last month.

Some Oklahoma lawmakers think a switch to ranked-choice voting is too costly, others say it will save the state money in the long term and help bring balanced elections.

Former Oklahoma House Speaker Charles McCall writes in an open letter that he’s filing to run for governor to stop liberal attacks against the state.

Despite efforts to increase immunization rates by providing free and more accessible vaccinations, experts say Oklahoma’s overall child vaccination rates are down amid skepticism about the efficacy of vaccines.

The Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education laid out its Fiscal Year 2026 legislative budget request last month. They want almost $500 million more than last year.

Oklahoma Public Safety Commissioner Tim Tipton said the state highway patrol and federal immigration authorities conducted another "mass arrest" operation along I-40 this week, this time on the eastern side of the state, along the border with Arkansas.

The first civil trial seeking to hold a pharmaceutical company accountable for the opioid crisis has finished its first week in Oklahoma.

The archbishop of Oklahoma City has sued to try to stop a group of Satanists from staging a "black mass" next month at a civic center, arguing that the…

The Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality is offering free bacterial testing of private well water due to statewide flooding.The agency announced…

The 2014 Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching is being presented to two Oklahoma teachers — including one who died Dec.…

The Oklahoma Geological Survey has begun work on plans to reduce the risk of oil-field work causing earthquakes.The Tulsa World reported Saturday that a…