The Fair Labor Standards Act allows employers to pay tipped workers the federal tipped minimum of $2.13 by claiming up to $5.12 of an employee’s tips as credit towards the $7.25 minimum wage. The ...

Naloxone, which reverses opioid overdoses, is seen in a vending machine at the Oklahoma Health Care Authority in Oklahoma City in this 2023 photo. (Paul Monies/Oklahoma Watch) ...

This article was originally delivered to subscribers of our Education Watch newsletter. Sign up now to receive Education Watch directly in your inbox. There are quite a few jaw-dropping details in our ...

Students work on a project at an Alpha School summer camp in the Hamptons. Alpha School advertises 2-hour, daily learning blocks customized by AI followed by hands-on projects and life skills lessons.

Westmoor Mobile Home Park in southwest Oklahoma City filed 160 of the 167 evictions in its ZIP code last year, making it Oklahoma City's seventh-highest evictor. One resident has had seven evictions ...

Multiple sources report that hospital prices have risen substantially since 2000, with one citing a 281% increase, outpacing general inflation and wage growth, among other things.  A 2022 report from ...

Summer Parker and Charles Hrabina, along with their dog Mercedes, pause for a photo at their home in Skiatook. (Rip Stell/Oklahoma Watch) Summer Parker didn’t understand why. She just knew she didn’t ...

Oklahoma’s Cannabis Testing System Is Under Scrutiny. The State’s Fix Isn’t Fully Operational. Summer Parker didn’t connect the episodes at first — the incoherence, the collapsed knees, the lost ...

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 ...

Russell Goodwin aims to identify and expose dangerous people online through his predator-catching group. His tactics frustrate police efforts and target vulnerable people. (Todd Pendleton/The ...

As trash mounts in Tulsa apartment complexes and tenants’ water access is threatened at the Oklahoma City-based Drexel Flats, attorneys and lawmakers said the situation at Vesta Realty is another ...

This article was originally delivered to subscribers of our Education Watch newsletter. Sign up now to receive Education Watch directly in your inbox. Epic Charter School’s finances may be improving, ...