A mandate that all Oklahoma public schools offer cost-free cafeteria meals is “nothing more than an empty threat,” a House Republican leader said. The head of the House Common Education Committee, Rep ...

Horse trailers and pickups carrying local families of rodeo champions are headed to the 2025 National High School Finals ...

By day, the Ukrainian capital hums with life — crowded metros, dog walkers and children on playgrounds. By night, Kyiv becomes a battleground as Russia unleashes relentless drone and missile attacks ...

As they prepare for the next school year, the Alva School Board hired two people and learned of the resignation of another.

Funeral services will be held on Thursday, July 10, 2025, at 10 a.m. at Zion Lutheran Church with Reverend Tim Roggow ...

Northwestern Oklahoma State University's Camp Ranger event for incoming freshmen is set for July 31 through Aug. 2 on the ...

After two years of legislative discussion and debate on the distractions of cell phones in class, Oklahoma schools have months to implement a bell-to-bell ban on devices for students during the ...

Former Alva resident Jim Ayers has received many awards during his career with Brown's Shoe Fit. Ayers managed the store in ...

Surprisingly, only one of Secretariat’s 660 children ever won a “triple crown” race. That child, Risen Star, won both the Preakness and the Belmont Stakes in 1988. But there is lots of money to be ...

Two women died Sunday at a Kentucky church in a shooting spree that began when a state trooper was wounded after making a traffic stop, police said. The suspect in both shootings was also killed. The ...

Much of the Woods County Commissioners meeting on Monday morning consisted of approving and signing annual contracts for the new fiscal year. Chairman Shane Vore, District 2, opened the meeting with ...