Oklahoma Watch

The city of Norman was prepared to build an automatic flood warning system this year, but in April, the Trump administration said it was ending the wasteful and ineffective program that would have paid for it.

Oklahoma’s eviction laws are among the most lenient in the nation.

Oklahoma lobbyists spent more than $220,000 on food and beverages for lawmakers during the 2025 legislative session.

With at least five declared candidates jumping into Oklahoma’s Republican gubernatorial primary, and more likely to announce, public support for anyone in the flooded field from the state’s congressional delegation is hard to find.

The Oklahoma Department of Corrections will spend about $74 million over two years to outsource its food service operations to the Trinity Services Group, a Florida-based company that feeds more than 300,000 prisoners and pretrial detainees daily.

A deadlocked Supreme Court blocked the creation of the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter school, but some lawmakers said this isn’t where the fight ends.

Puzzled weather experts wondered whether that might be an excuse to stifle questions, as the data used to blame hail shows the opposite: Oklahoma has had less hail than states with lower rates.

Oklahoma public schools have weathered significant challenges to keeping student numbers up. The coronavirus pandemic. Private school vouchers. Shifting demographics.

The Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, a Native American nation in Oklahoma, is trying to negotiate with the Trump administration to see if it can help win back a piece of land that was taken over by the federal government more than 150 years ago.

“The very discussion about reducing our investment in our scientific research and our weather forecasting causes me to have stomach cramps,” Rep. Frank Lucas said.