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After Oklahoma banned some state-funded DEI initiatives, schools renamed offices and shuffled jobs

Oklahoma
Written By: Ari Fife (OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla.) The University of Oklahoma is closing all diversity, equity and inclusion offices and the University of Central Oklahoma dissolved a committee...

Oklahoma cops can still use training banned in other states after allegations it promotes violence and illegal tactics

Oklahoma
Written By: Ashlynd Huffman  (OKLAHOMA) A medic for the Oklahoma and Canadian county sheriff’s tactical team stood in front of nearly 1,000 officers from across the country in Atlantic...

Housing groups launch new homelessness council after Stitt dissolved the official one

Oklahoma
Written By Kayla Branch (OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla.) A year after Gov. Kevin Stitt dissolved a statewide council on ending homelessness, providers have launched an independent group to collect...

Oklahoma Senator wants taxpayers to pay for land buys from Grand Lake flooding

Oklahoma
Written By: Clifton Adcock (MIAMI, Okla.) United States Sen. Markwayne Mullin wants to make the federal government pay to buy flooded Oklahoma lands along the main tributaries of Grand...

Oklahoma election task force recommends fighting dark money by lifting contribution limits

Oklahoma
Written By: Clifton Adcock (OKLAHOMA) Gov. Kevin Stitt’s Task Force on Campaign Finance and Election Threats recommends allowing politicians to accept unlimited contributions from...

Ryan Walters’ shadow looms over election losses in three Tulsa School Board races

Oklahoma
Written By: Dylan Goforth (TULSA, Okla.) When John Croisant began knocking doors and talking to voters last August in his bid to remain Tulsa’s District 5 school board representative, he...

A group formed by one candidate’s husband is buying ads in Tulsa school board races

Oklahoma
Written By: Clifton Adcock (TULSA, Okla.) A school board candidate for Tulsa Public Schools is receiving support from a political organization her husband formed.  Read this story on...

One prisoner called 911 for help at an understaffed Oklahoma prison

Oklahoma
Written By: Ashlynd Huffman (HOLDENVILLE, Okla.) With no correctional officers nearby, a prisoner ran into an unlocked office looking for a phone after a knife fight left one man...

Impact: One police department puts criminal cases on hold for moms who used medical marijuana during pregnancy

Oklahoma
Written By: Brianna Bailey (PONCA CITY, Okla.) The Ponca City Police Department has stopped sending reports of women who use medical marijuana during their pregnancies to the local...

Why Oklahoma prisons are seeing a spike in overdose deaths

Oklahoma
Written By: Ashlynd Huffman (OKLAHOMA) At least 18 people died from drug overdoses in Oklahoma prisons in 2023, a sharp increase over the previous year. The Oklahoma Department of...