Barnsdall News

Children at Avant, Barnsdall, Bowring, Hominy, Osage Hills, Pawhuska and Wynona public schools have had an extra day tacked on to their Christmas break: They are all closed Monday, Jan.

A house fire early New Year's Day killed a Barnsdall man but spared his grandmother, who was awakened by passersby and removed from the home around 6:30 a.m. The dead man has not been officially identified because his remains were badly burned, but city officials said he was believed to be Dustin Cooper, a valued city employee who worked hard to ...

Clifford Walter Trisler, 98, passed away Sunday, Dec. 27th, 2009, at the Barnsdall Nursing Home.

The Liberty school district is joining four others in Oklahoma in changing to a four-day week.

Oklahoma school districts are struggling to absorb a 10 percent cut in state revenue and still meet payroll expenses and pay for services for which they have signed contracts.

The Liberty school board cited declining state revenues as the primary reason for the switch.

The Liberty School District has become the latest school system to go to a four-day week in order to save money in the face of declining revenues.

KOCO : Central High is the latest Oklahoma school district to switch to a four-day school week.

Central High is the latest Oklahoma school district to switch to a four-day school week.

AT&T Inc. says it has completed construction and activated three new cellular telephone towers in Osage County.

A Barnsdall man was killed and a 2-year-old boy was injured in a two-car collision near Wynona in Osage County on Tuesday, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol said.

Barnsdall Public Schools, faced with budget problems, has become the second district in Osage County to go to a four-day school week.

In the midst of a statewide budget crunch that has nearly all Oklahoma schools hurting, Barnsdall's school board will vote Monday whether to adopt a four-day, Monday-Thursday school week.

Mike Jordan, 71, resident of rural Barnsdall, died at 2:38 AM on Sunday in the Jane Phillips Medical Center in Bartlesville.

Agencies across Oklahoma are being forced to make painful cuts. The state education department reports funding shortfalls are putting schools in a bind and many worry that could lead to layoffs, consolidation or even closure.

Four out-of-state women, all members of a Masonic-affiliated organization, were sightseeing through Oklahoma on Sunday when they were killed in a three-vehicle crash, authorities and friends said Monday.

A horrific accident in Oklahoma Sunday afternoon took the lives of four good friends, three from the Toledo area.

Four women from Ohio and Michigan were killed Sunday afternoon in a 3-vehicle pileup near the Osage county town of Barnsdall.

BARNSDALL, Okla. - Three Ohio women and one from Michigan have been killed in a head-on collision on State Highway 11 in northern Oklahoma.

Officials in the Sands Springs school district used an aggressive, get-it-out approach when it came to detailing Tuesday's bond election, Superintendent Lloyd Snow said.