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The Oklahoma Department of Corrections has consistently failed to address critical staffing shortages and operational inefficiencies in its aging prison facilities. The Legislative Office of Fiscal Transparency proposes several solutions.

Sunday marks the 25th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing. An NPR national correspondent remembers covering that act of terrorism — and how it changed the city and the country.

Staff inside the Comanche County Detention Center knew they had a problem when the number of prisoners infected with Covid-19 reached 18 in early May. The…

Trustees of the Oklahoma Public Employee Retirement System voted Wednesday to take a financial exemption from a new law forbidding state pension systems from doing business with banks perceived to be hostile to oil and gas companies.

Gov. Kevin Stitt appointed a new member to the University of Oklahoma Board of Regents Wednesday.

Correctional officers at state-run prisons will wear the devices, which can record audio and capture footage even if the officer fails to hit the record button.

A University of Oklahoma law school graduate who has nearly three decades of experience in the oil and gas industry will take over as the university’s…

Oklahoma Watch, July 10, 2024

The ACLU’s Oklahoma chapter and other partners say the response from the University of Oklahoma to a recent executive order regarding diversity, equity and inclusion programs is overblown.

The warning is issued by forecasters in the deadliest of situations. It was first used during a storm eerily similar to Monday's. It was 1999 and the Norman, Okla., office foretold a twister that left 46 people dead and injured 800.

In this episode, How Curious host Rachel Hopkin visits the Moore-Lindsay Historical House Museum in Norman, Oklahoma. The first glimmerings of Norman as a named place began with a government survey team, then grew as it became a stop on the railroad. Then came the 1889 land run which turned Norman into a city virtually overnight. Ten years later, the Moore-Lindsay House was built. Rachel explores what the house - plus what is known about its early residents - tell us about life in the young city well over a century ago.

A number of seismologists have concluded that the 5.7-magnitude earthquake that hit near Prague a year and a half ago was caused by injecting wastewater…