The bill, authored by Senate Pro Tem Lonnie Paxton, advanced along party lines and is eligible to be considered in the House. Paxton has maintained that law enforcement and district attorneys will ...

Department of Education staff received year-end bonuses. State payroll data shows most received 2.5% but Ryan Walters’ chief policy advisor, Matt Langston, received a lot more.

Rising prison health care costs are prompting corrections officials to rethink everything from medication distribution to ...

Oklahoma Watch · Sheridan Church’s Tax Status Holds Up, Despite Unabashed Political Influence Keaton Ross looks at the rapid ...

The state with the highest median annual wage was Massachusetts. The states ranked lower than Oklahoma were Alabama, ...

The 1,700-member Sheridan Church, which has campuses in Tulsa and Oklahoma City, is led by the pastor Jackson Lahmeyer, an ...

Want to understand Oklahoma better? Sign up for First Watch and let Ted Streuli guide you beyond the surface of daily news. Particularly astute readers might have noticed that the quotations at the ...

Want to understand Oklahoma better? Sign up for First Watch and let Ted Streuli guide you beyond the surface of daily news. Oklahoma was found to have the highest rate of domestic violence of any ...

How Stay-to-Play Squeezes Sports Parents Jennifer Palmer digs into a practice in the world of competitive youth sports known ...

On a telephone town hall with constituents, the senior appropriator said lawmakers can get results by flagging issues with the Department of Government Efficiency.

In Oklahoma, the incomes of tribal members living on tribal land are exempt from state taxes if (1) their income is derived from sources within that land, or (2) the income is payment to an active ...