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Ponca City High School Mock Trial Team Advances to Quarterfinals Third Year in a Row

Monday, February 15

The Ponca City Senior High Mock Trial team advanced to quarterfinals for the 3rd year in a row. This year’s competition is a little different as it is entirely virtual. Students competed February 2nd against McAlester and Moore. They defeated Moore two ballots to one but lost to McAlester...

Ponca City Public School District Announces Distance Learning for February 16

Monday, February 15

All Ponca City Public School students will participate in Distance Learning on Tuesday, February 16, due to continued extreme weather and hazardous road conditions. Teachers will communicate with students through Google Classroom or site Facebook pages. If we experience controlled electric service interruptions, Distance Learning will resume as...

NOC Northern Encounter event at Enid postponed

Monday, February 15

The Northern Oklahoma College Northern Encounter event for Wednesday, Feb. 17 at NOC Enid has been postponed. The event will be made up at a later date. Events at NOC Tonkawa and NOC Stillwater have also been postponed due to weather. NOC traditionally...

Less than 800 new COVID-19 cases reported by OSDH on Monday

Monday, February 15

The Oklahoma State Department of Health is reporting 730 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, Feb. 15. Oklahoma's seen 414,272 COVID-19 cases overall as 21,196 cases are active. The number of active cases is 485 less than Sunday.Seventeen additional virus-related deaths were documented Monday to put Oklahoma's death toll to...

Urgent Need: Volunteers and Supplies Needed at The Rose Stone Inn

Monday, February 15

U R G E N TThe Rose Stone Inn, at 120 South 3rd Street in downtown Ponca City, has opened its doors as a shelter for the homeless and those in need of shelter during this winter storm. Volunteers and supplies are desperately needed.Churches and individuals, your help would...

Energy Emergency Alert Level 3 issued for the region

Monday, February 15

The Southwest Power Pool (SPP) declared an Energy Emergency Alert (EEA) Level 3 at 10:08 a.m.An EEA3 signals that SPP is operating with reserves below the required minimum and may mean that SPP...

NOC Child Development and Scholarship Program

Monday, February 15

For the past 20 years Northern Oklahoma College has participated the scholarship program, Scholars for Excellence in Child Care, the goal of the program is to improve the quality of childcare for the children of Oklahoma by educating the workforce. The scholarship is managed through a...

Former NOC Maverick dies in auto accident

Monday, February 15

A fatality collision Sunday afternoon took the life of former NOC Tonkawa Maverick basketball player Chelvin Webb, 24. (

Kay County Jr. Livestock Show moved to Feb. 22-26

Monday, February 15

The following is from the Kay County 4-H Facebook page regarding the Kay County Jr. Live stock show:Hello Kay County Showmen,This is an update from the Livestock Show Committee. As you know the show has been moved to the...

All COVID-19 vaccination PODs in Kay County cancelled for this week

Monday, February 15

Due to Sunday's winter weather and more expected Tuesday night going into Wednesday, the Kay County Health Department made the announcement last week that all COVID vaccination PODs in Kay County Feb. 15-18, are cancelled.Individuals who had appointments for those days will need to reschedule at

OSDH reporting 2,724 new COVID-19 cases, 65 deaths and 3,439 new recoveries since Friday

Monday, February 15

The Oklahoma State Department of Health is reporting 2,724 new COVID-19 cases for Oklahoma on Saturday and Sunday, putting the state at 413,542 overall cases with 21,681 cases being active, which is 780 less than Friday.OSDH documented 65 new virus-related deaths over the weekend, putting Oklahoma's death toll to...

Kansas man killed in accident near Braman

Sunday, February 14

A fatality collision occurred at 1:34 p.m. Sunday afternoon along Interstate 35 northbound at mile marker 225, approximately 2 miles south of Braman in Kay County.A snow storm was occurring at the time as Chevin Webb, 24, of Manhattan, Ks, who. was driving a 2013 Honda Accord northbound on...