After a 2023 law change to curb the practice, records indicate at least one rural county regularly jails people for unpaid court fines and fees. Lawmakers have tasked a committee with gathering more ...

With less than a month until the Nov. 3 general election, the race to become Oklahoma’s next attorney general is heating up. Supporters of Jon Echols have targeted Nick Coffey over a 2024 contribution ...

A row of power lines is seen from a snowy sidewalk in Norman on Feb. 16, 2021. (Whitney Bryen/Oklahoma Watch) The mystery around why Oklahoma utility customers paid so much more for natural gas during ...

The Oklahoma Department of Securities sued Vesta Realty, alleging the company failed to provide records the department subpoenaed. (Illustration by Jake Ramsey/Oklahoma Watch) Another lawsuit has been ...

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. The phone operator, later ...

How much do Oklahomans dislike insurance companies? Think toe fungus. Think root canal, head lice, colonoscopies and Brussels sprouts. On Monday, as proposed insurance law makes its way toward the ...

Damien O’Daniel pauses for a photo at a park in Shawnee. O’Daniel received a third-degree burn in an industrial accident at a Logan County marijuana processing plant. (Rip Stell/Oklahoma Watch) When ...

Many Oklahoma schools have already embraced artificial intelligence in the classroom as districts set guardrails and guide its use. “It feels a little like building the airplane while it’s flying,” ...

This article was originally delivered to subscribers of our Education Watch newsletter. Sign up now to receive Education Watch directly in your inbox. An Oklahoma City federal judge blocked the state ...