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Long Story Short: Legislature’s funding scheme handcuffs OK Ethics Commission enforcement

Oklahoma Watch, June 21, 2023

NBA's Oklahoma City Thunder Has Youth On Its Side

Oklahoma City is on top in the NBA Finals. The Thunder is playing great team basketball, despite their youth and relative inexperience.

Syringes, gloves and sanitizer are seen on a table where nurses are administering COVID-19 vaccines.

Oklahoma Inmates And Corrections Staff Will Wait On COVID-19 Vaccine

Oklahoma inmates, a group four times more likely to contract the coronavirus than the general population, won’t receive initial doses of the COVID-19…

David Holt Sworn In As Oklahoma City's First New Mayor In 14 Years

For the first time in 14 years, Oklahoma City has a new mayor. On Tuesday morning, former state senator David Holt was sworn into office before his...

A sales tax exemption approved in 2005 applies to electricity used in "waterflood" oil recovery projects in older fields, such as the Glenn Pool field shown above, with Sapulpa in the distance.

Sales Tax Break Authored By Oklahoma Senate President Benefits His Employer

An obscure sales tax break authored by Oklahoma’s Senate leader is subsidizing an expensive form of enhanced oil recovery for seven companies, including…

Long Story Short: Has Stitt Fulfilled His Education Promises?

Oklahoma Watch, Nov. 2, 2022

Oklahoma Democrats and independents made up an outsized share of voter registrations deleted for inactivity, but overall voter deletions roughly tracked with party affiliation trends in the state.

Who are Oklahoma’s deleted voters? State provides data breaking it down by party.

Hundreds of thousands of Oklahomans whose voter registration was deleted in recent years roughly reflect the overall layout of party affiliation in the state, though Democrats and independents were overrepresented among voters deleted for inactivity.

Oklahoma Teachers To Strike This Week

The state legislature passed a bill that raises teacher salaries by $6,100. Teachers say the bill doesn't go far enough. NPR's Sarah McCammon asks state Sen. Joseph Silk about why he opposed the bill.

Entire Oklahoma House Delegation Votes To Hold Lois Lerner In Contempt

All five members of Oklahoma's House delegation voted with their Republican colleagues to hold a former Internal Revenue Service official in contempt of…

Andy Danison holds a section of dinosaur bone in a paleontology lab at the OSU-Tulsa campus in Tulsa, Okla., on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2024.

Oklahoma’s state fossil is known as an enormous carnivorous dinosaur. Did it ever exist?

New research from Oklahoma State University suggests the fossil is not the documented Saurophaganax.

ACLU of Oklahoma Executive Director Ryan Kiesel speaks at the Capitol on May 20, 2016 about the grand jury's findings on the state's execution protocol

State, Civic Leaders React To Oklahoma Grand Jury Execution Findings

Oklahoma’s top officials say they’re taking time to thoroughly read a scathing 106-page report released Thursday criticizing Oklahoma’s execution…

Oklahoma City Bombing: 20 Years Later

KGOU and our Oklahoma Public Media Exchange partners' coverage of the Oklahoma City bombing at the 20th anniversary and beyond.

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