2022 homicide data from both the CDC and FBI consistently place Oklahoma’s homicide rate among the top 20 states.

Since March, states including Oklahoma, Missouri, Iowa and Mississippi suffered severe storms, winds or wildfires and requested assistance through the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program at FEMA, which ...

No arrest or criminal conviction is required for Oklahoma law enforcement officers to seize funds they believe are linked to ...

Private companies managing student lunch accounts charge families fees to make deposits. Sending money is easy and convenient ...

Oklahoma Watch · Parents Swallow Junk Fees to Pay for School Lunches Keaton Ross reports on the cancellation of a $74M prison food contract. Paul Monies covers Treasurer Todd Russ’ push against ...

Oklahoma alone produced 9% of the nation’s wind energy in 2023, and the top 5 states in wind energy generation produced 59%.

Haley Parsley is a graduate student at the University of Maryland. She is a summer 2025 intern at Oklahoma Watch with support from the Nonprofit Newsroom Internship Program created by The Scripps ...

Aramark, a competing bidder, successfully challenged the Department of Corrections’ $74 million deal with the Trinity ...

Oklahoma Watch · Resignations and layoffs at the state’s largest online school Jennifer Palmer talks about the latest turmoil ...

Two 2024 surveys rank Oklahoma at No.37 in terms of safety, placing it lower than 75% of the states.

Oklahoma Treasurer Todd Russ failed to gain support for shareholder proposals targeting “ideological activism” at major companies. Backed by conservative groups, his resolutions drew less than 1% of ...