• Main Street Awards Banquet Friday

    Main Street Awards Banquet Friday - February 22, 2017

    The 2017 Main Street Awards Banquet will be held at 6 p.m. Friday, Feb. 24, at Marland's Grand Home. All members are invited to attend this celebratory event. Several members and the excellent work...

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  • Tulsan receives life sentence for assaulting, robbing insurance adjuster

    Tulsan receives life sentence for assaulting, robbing insurance adjuster - February 22, 2017

      OKLAHOMA CITY – A Tulsa man who filed a bogus insurance claim and assaulted an insurance adjuster has been sentenced to life in prison, according to Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner John Do...

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  • Animal Control euthanizes fewer animals in 2016

    Animal Control euthanizes fewer animals in 2016 - February 22, 2017

    Ponca City Police Chief Don Bohon, in his 2016 annual report on Ponca City Animal Control, reports more animals were handled in 2016 than in 2015, fewer animals were euthanized and more animals were r...

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  • Katy Thomason named Teacher of the Year

    Katy Thomason named Teacher of the Year - February 22, 2017

    Liberty Elementary school teacher, Katy Thomason is the Ponca City Public Schools’ 2018 District Teacher of the Year.  The announcement was made at the annual Teacher of the Year Banquet held Tue...

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  • Opposition grows to Fallin’s sales tax proposal

    Opposition grows to Fallin’s sales tax proposal - February 22, 2017

    OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Thirteen more rank-and-file Republican legislators have announced their opposition to Gov. Mary Fallin's plan to expand the existing state sales tax to dozens of services that are...

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  • Pruitt’s emails with energy firms turned over

    Pruitt’s emails with energy firms turned over - February 22, 2017

    OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- A spokesman for the Oklahoma Attorney General's office says the agency has gone above and beyond a judge's order to turn over documents related to new Environmental Protection Ag...

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  • Park and Recreation Department offers new exercise class

    Park and Recreation Department offers new exercise class - February 21, 2017

    The Park and Recreation Department offers "Fitness for Health," a new exercise class, from 5:30 to 6:30 a.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays in March Classes will be held at Unity Gym and are $35 a month or...

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  • Revenue failure declared for fiscal year 2017 for Oklahoma

    Revenue failure declared for fiscal year 2017 for Oklahoma - February 21, 2017

    OKLAHOMA CITY — The appropriated budget hole for fiscal year 2018 will be $878 million, and there is a revenue failure for FY 2017, Secretary of Finance, Administration and Information Technology...

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  • Artists’ reception Wednesday at Eleanor Hays Art Gallery

    Artists’ reception Wednesday at Eleanor Hays Art Gallery - February 21, 2017

    TONKAWA  -- An artists' reception for "Creators 2017," the Biennial Faculty Art Exhibit, will be held from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 22, at the Eleanor Hays Art Gallery at Northern Oklahoma Coll...

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  • Hofmeister comments on General Revenue failure

    Hofmeister comments on General Revenue failure - February 21, 2017

      OKLAHOMA CITY  – Today’s Board of Equalization meeting resulted in a 0.7 percent General Revenue failure for the state, which resulted in $11.1 million in cuts to common educat...

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