A rural community in eastern Oklahoma is set to be the site of the country’s largest aluminum smelter. It’s the first domestic facility of its kind to be proposed in almost 50 years. Residents don’t ...

Want to understand Oklahoma better? Sign up for First Watch and let Ted Streuli guide you beyond the surface of daily news. The statewide governing board overseeing charter schools has once again ...

Oklahoma Rep. Kevin Hern appears to have filed at least 10 stock trade disclosures late, covering between $4.2 million and $17.6 million in transactions, potentially violating the STOCK Act. Hern's ...

Oil and gas magnate Harold Hamm, one of the wealthiest people in America and a major Republican donor, called Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt on Thursday night, asking for the appointment to Oklahoma’s ...

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Oklahoma lawmakers advanced several election measures during a busy deadline week, including a resolution to enshrine the right of political parties to nominate their preferred candidate in federal, ...

More than six months after policyholders first found out about the plan, Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Glen Mulready has given his approval for the state’s largest workers compensation mutual ...

Tenants in Oklahoma have few options for holding bad landlords accountable, and one real estate company’s problematic management highlights the lack of protections for tenants across the state.

Frank Myers was evicted from his Fair View Mobile Home trailer after refusing to sign a rent-to-own agreement and failing to pay rent due to multiple issues with his trailer. However, a questionable ...

According to a document released amid ICE’s acquisition of warehouses, ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion to expand detention capacity to 92,000 beds–more than Oklahoma’s 2024 expenditure of $30.7 ...

Oklahoma ranks third nationally in per-capita fatal police encounters, recording 383 deaths over 12 years at a rate of roughly 8 per million residents. A review process built on legal standards ...

According to 2022 data from the Office of Homeland Security, the unauthorized immigration population was about 11 million, almost three times the population of Oklahoma, and a 2023 estimate from the ...