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Grants Pass’ new mayor and councilors scaled back housing efforts as most residents can’t afford rent

National
Written By: Mollie Bryant (NATIONAL) About a week after attempting to hold a meeting before they were sworn in, Grants Pass, Oregon’s newly elected mayor and councilors reversed course...

Weather across America

National
(NATIONAL) Critical fire weather conditions continue across the fire-ravaged region of southern California, a clipper system to bring snow showers to the Great Lakes and arctic air to...

DOJ Report Finds Violations of ADA by Oklahoma, OKC, and OKCPD

Oklahoma
(OKLAHOMA COUNTY, Okla.) The Department of Justice (DOJ) has released a report alleging that the State of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, and the Oklahoma City Police Department (OKCPD) have...

First person retried and released from prison under Oklahoma Survivor’s Act

Oklahoma
Photo Courtesy: Oklahoma Appleseed Center for Law & Justice (SEMINOLE, Okla.) After serving 34 years of a life sentence without parole, Lisa Moss was released from Mabel Bassett...

New Allegation Emerges Against MCN Associate Tribal Liaison

Oklahoma
Written By: Frances Herrod (MUSCOGEE RESERVATION) Mvskoke Media has confirmed that two police reports were filed with Mvskoke Nation Lighthorse Police by Joe Anderson and Summer Wesley...

Broken Arrow’s Sequoyah Middle School state finalist in national STEM competition

Oklahoma
Written By: John Dobberstein (BROKEN ARROW, Okla.) Samsung announced a list of state finalists in the company’s Solve For Tomorrow national STEM competition, and Broken Arrow’s Sequoyah...

Debt From Credit Scores

National
Written By: Noam N. Levey (NATIONAL) The federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Tuesday issued new regulations barring medical debts from American credit reports, enacting a...

Osage Nation renews fight for reservation status post-McGirt

Oklahoma
Written By: Louise Red Corn The Osage Nation, thwarted by a 2010 federal court decision that has pinned it into a corner from which it has been unable to extricate itself, is challenging...

Tulsa police won’t share the locations of more than 200 surveillance cameras

Oklahoma
Written By: Garret Yalch (TULSA, Okla.) The Tulsa Police Department has refused to disclose the locations of more than 200 surveillance cameras it operates across the city after The...

Weather across America

National
(NATIONAL) Heavy snow from the Central Plains to the Mid-Atlantic with damaging ice and freezing rain and an enhanced risk (level 3/5) of severe thunderstorms over parts of the Lower...