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Oklahoma Watch, June 19, 2024

Oklahoma’s top election official, Paul Ziriax, says voters and poll workers should feel safe at polling places across the state, despite recent news of a foiled terror attack planned for Election Day. He says that's because preparations for election security started long before any credible threats of terrorism.

A federal appeals court has upheld Oklahoma’s ban on gender-affirming procedures for minors.

Research from a national transportation research nonprofit shows the state has seen higher traffic fatalities in recent years. This comes as the Oklahoma Highway Patrol is urging road safety practices after responding to a series of roadway fatalities across the state last weekend.

Oklahoma Supreme Court justices Monday seemed skeptical that state leaders should be able to remove Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust board members before their terms ends.

About $1.5 million in private donations are being used to train literacy coaches in 10 locations across Oklahoma as part of an effort to improve students’ reading proficiency, officials announced Tuesday.

Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt has filed a legal brief in the U.S. Supreme Court's review of an Oklahoma abortion law. The nation's highest court…

LISTEN LIVEParents, teachers and other education officials are expected to voice their concerns over a set of public education principles known as common…

A South Carolina sheriff says he has sent two deputies and a state agent to Oklahoma as the dispute over the adoption of a 3-year-old Cherokee girl…

Health officials in Tulsa have confirmed a second human case of the potentially fatal West Nile virus in Oklahoma this year.The Tulsa Health Department…

The Oklahoma Department of Corrections has begun repopulating a halfway house in Tulsa, about three months after the facility was temporarily shut down…

A new study out today from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities finds that more than two-thirds of states are spending less per child on schools…