Twenty-four former students of New Lifehouse Academy, a Christian boarding school in rural Delaware County, told The Frontier that the school marketed itself as help for struggling teenage girls but d...

Sen. Julia Kirt held a September interim study on land banks, quasi-governmental entities that acquire vacant and blighted properties for development, after her land bank bill died in committee this s...

An 18-year-old inmate at the Oklahoma County Detention Center called the emergency line four times over 45 minutes while a man was being beaten to death two cells away. A recent report found the jail ...

WILD ART Oklahoma Photos by Oklahoma Photographers Here’s the Stuff You Should Know Four Years In, Epic’s Criminal Case Has No Trial Date and a New AG Coming in January In April, a judge ruled suffici...

WILD ART Oklahoma Photos by Oklahoma Photographers Here’s the Stuff You Should Know Tulsa Votes to Develop Eviction Legal Aid Program. Advocates Say Oklahoma Should Be Watching. Only 4% of tenants in ...

The city of San Francisco is challenging a pricey subscriber-only tool on the Truth Social media platform that allows Wall Street investors early access to the president’s posts.

Tulsa has one of the highest eviction rates in the country, with landlords filing cases affecting more than 600 children in Tulsa Public Schools last year. ImpactTulsa has built a first-responder syst...

Since 2021, Oklahoma sheriff turnover audits have identified more than 3,000 unaccounted-for items across county departments statewide — including guns, vehicles, Tasers and, in some cases, refrigerat...

WILD ART Oklahoma Photos by Oklahoma Photographers Here’s the Stuff You Should Know OSU President Eyes TCC Merger, Calling Tulsa’s Higher Education Setup Inadequate Oklahoma State University President...

WILD ART Oklahoma Photos by Oklahoma Photographers Here’s the Stuff You Should Know Congress Passed the Biggest Housing Bill in Decades. Oklahoma Advocates Say It’s Not Enough on Its Own. In early Jul...

A new federal tax credit scholarship program opening to public schools in 2027 is modeled after Oklahoma's existing program — which has significant oversight gaps, including organizations missing the ...

Oklahoma borrowers are navigating a rapidly shifting federal student loan landscape, with 24% of state borrowers falling into default as payment plans change, the SAVE plan is phased out and monthly p...

USAO faculty voted 40-1 to express no confidence in the university's president and academic affairs vice president over proposed changes that would eliminate tenure references, consolidate or reclassi...

Four Enid natives announced plans Tuesday for Project Thunderbird, a proposed 1,735-acre data center and power generation complex that would need City Commission approval before proceeding. The announ...

A global shareholder advisory firm has sued to block an Oklahoma law requiring proxy advisory firms to justify recommendations against company management on shareholder votes. The lawsuit comes as cou...

WILD ART Oklahoma Photos by Oklahoma Photographers Here’s the Stuff You Should Know Stillwater’s Remington Ranch Lawsuit Is Frozen. Tenants Are Still There. When Stillwater declared Remington Ranch a ...

Gov. Kevin Stitt's executive order banning tenure at Oklahoma's regional universities is already costing schools top-choice hires, driving candidate withdrawals and unsettling existing faculty — while...

Oklahoma is releasing more people from prison, but a patchwork of local housing policies, blanket criminal record bans and minimal reentry support is leaving many unable to find stable housing after r...

WILD ART Oklahoma Photos by Oklahoma Photographers Here’s the Stuff You Should Know Oklahoma’s Tobacco Trust Is Rating Investment Managers on “Oklahoma Values.” One Board Member Says That’s Illegal. T...

Norman is shutting down A Better Way, a program that connected people experiencing homelessness with paid work and support services, after the Oklahoma Attorney General's Office denied a funding reque...

A Tulsa Teacher Spent Three Days Inside Ryan Walters’ Anti-Union Summit. He Has Notes. Ryan Walters left Oklahoma’s state superintendent office last year weeks after a nude scene from a 1985 Jackie Ch...

Oklahoma Audit Flags $25 Million in Questionable Federal Spending. One Agency May Need a Special Investigation. Oklahoma State Auditor Cyndi Byrd released her annual federal audit Monday, flagging nea...

Oklahoma prison inmates are working in call centers placing political calls and insurance telemarketing on behalf of outside companies, earning $2 an hour while a Virginia super PAC paid nearly $600,0...

A new book by New York Times technology reporter Natasha Singer examines how Google, Microsoft and other tech giants have shaped American public schools to serve their own interests. In Oklahoma, the ...

Outside groups and candidates have spent more than $13 million on Oklahoma's August 25 runoff since July 1, most of it on the GOP governor's race. Several advertisements make claims that warrant scrut...

Fact-Checking the Franklin-Taylor Superintendent Runoff Debate Robert Franklin and James Taylor debated on News 9 and News on 6 on Monday night ahead of the August 25 Republican state superintendent r...

Oklahoma's attorney general is offering school districts a free, evidence-based drug prevention curriculum through a new initiative funded by opioid abatement grants. But educators and substance abuse...

Oklahoma electric customers are seeing higher bills this summer driven by utility rate increases, rising regional transmission costs, grid infrastructure investment and summer air conditioning demand....

Oklahoma City Public Schools opened a $116 million Capitol Hill High School on the city's south side Tuesday, replacing a 1920s building that lacked modern amenities and efficient air conditioning. Th...

Two Vesta Realty tenants — one without air conditioning for 18 months, another without electricity and hot water — illustrate how little recourse Oklahoma law gives renters when landlords fail to prov...

Two Vesta Realty tenants — one without air conditioning for 18 months, another without electricity and hot water — illustrate how little recourse Oklahoma law gives renters when landlords fail to prov...

Oklahoma Tribe’s Harrah’s Deal Is in Limbo While the Federal Gaming Regulator Sits Empty On opening day at the Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma’s new Harrah’s-branded casino in Chandler, the parking lot overflo...

Oklahoma's felony murder rule allows children as young as 13 to be charged with first-degree murder — punishable by life without parole — for deaths that occur during a felony, regardless of intent. S...

Stitt Makes Oklahoma’s Case on Housing, AI and Federalism in NBC Forum Gov. Kevin Stitt took Oklahoma’s policy positions to a national audience this week, joining Delaware Gov. Matt Meyer on NBC’s Com...

Vesta Realty's collapse has left Tulsa tenants confused about who manages their apartments and who to pay rent, as competing bankruptcy proceedings in two states, a court-ordered management transfer a...

Republican gubernatorial candidates Gentner Drummond and Mike Mazzei debated Monday ahead of the August 25 runoff, sparring over the Inola smelter, insurance, immigration and taxes. Oklahoma Watch rev...

Oklahoma is one of five finalist states for a federal Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campus that could bring $50 billion in investment and 25,000 jobs — along with nuclear waste shipped in from across t...

Oklahoma Native American students ranked first in the nation in reading, math and combined achievement in 2024, a result researchers link to aggressive student identification practices and robust John...

Oklahoma's pretrial bail amounts vary wildly by county, with a DUI carrying a scheduled bail of $250 in one county and $50,000 in another. There is no statewide standard for non-traffic offenses, leav...

A June 30 U.S. Supreme Court ruling eliminating federal caps on coordinated political party spending has opened a new front in Oklahoma's already record-breaking 2026 election cycle. The Oklahoma Ethi...

Cedar Lake residents in southwestern Canadian County say their lake and private wells are running dry because of upstream dams built by Glenn Coffee, a politically connected former Oklahoma Senate Pre...

Oklahoma’s Appointed Senator Missed the Deadline to Disclose Millions in Stock Trades Alan Armstrong, Oklahoma’s appointed U.S. senator, disclosed more than 700 personal stock trades worth between $3....

State Question 844, on the August 25 ballot, would allow the Legislature to stop reimbursing local governments and school districts for property tax revenue lost when manufacturers receive five-year t...

Oklahoma's statewide naloxone vending machine program, once the largest in the nation, has been dismantled, with machines redistributed to community organizations now paying out of pocket for supplies...

One Mobile Home Park Filed 160 of 167 Evictions in Its ZIP Code Last Year Westmoor Mobile Home Park looks tidy from the street — cut grass, a pool, a playground, soccer goals. Dustin Rollins moved the...

Alpha School, a billionaire-backed private school chain that replaces teachers with AI tutors and charges $40,000 a year in tuition, is opening campuses in Edmond and Tulsa in August. The model, which...

Oklahoma's medical marijuana testing system faces questions about inconsistent laboratory results, lab shopping for favorable potency numbers and whether the state's pesticide screening panel tests fo...

Mike Mazzei, who advances to the August governor's runoff, has missed three-fourths of the Oklahoma Police Pension and Retirement Board meetings since Gov. Kevin Stitt appointed him in 2023, attending...

In 23 of Oklahoma's 27 district attorney races in June, the lone candidate won by default. The pattern reflects a shortage of qualified attorneys willing to run, particularly in rural legal deserts, l...