Oklahoma Government News

A national report ranks Oklahoma sixth in the nation in obese adults, up from eighth a year ago and at least the third increase in a row.

Former President George W. Bush is meeting with local and state officials in a rural Oklahoma town where his Fourth of July speech could draw more than 9,000 spectators.Bush is scheduled speak Saturday evening inside a remodeled rodeo arena in Woodward, a town of about 12,000 residents in northwest Oklahoma.

Oklahoma taxpayers paid $200,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging Democratic Labor Commissioner Lloyd Fields retaliated against an employee who backed his Republican predecessor.

A settlement has been reached between Oklahoma Gas and Electric Co. and state regulators that would give the utility company a $48 million annual rate increase.

If there is one particular place in dire need of health care reform, it's surely Oklahoma.

A four-time world champion rodeo clown from Texas has been sentenced to five years probation and ordered to pay $15,000 in restitution for his role in helping abscond with 300 head of cattle.

The number of computers available to Oklahoma public school students has grown substantially since 2000, a report shows.

Posted on Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at 6:08 a.m. The driver of a tractor-trailer that slammed into a line of vehicles on an Oklahoma turnpike, killing 10 people, had a clean driving record.

The truck driver who caused a chain-reaction accident that killed 10 people had a clean record when his commercial license was renewed three months before the crash.

Four members of a Frisco family on their way to a funeral were among those killed in a grisly chain-reaction freeway crash on Friday in northeastern Oklahoma that left 10 dead.

Members of the Oklahoma House will be busy this summer and fall as they convene hearings on 120 government studies that have been authorized by House Speaker Chris Benge.

Workers at the Oklahoma Corporation Commission are being offered voluntary buyouts to help ease a budget crisis.

Hours after a tractor-trailer slammed into stopped traffic on a northeast Oklahoma turnpike, tow trucks dislodged the rig from a crushed car to find the body of a ninth victim inside the mangled wreckage.

Two survivors of an Oklahoma traffic wreck that killed nine people yesterday remain in critical condition: a 35-year-old woman from Texas, and a 12-year-old girl from Phoenix whose parents were killed.

The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says budget cuts mean it will not conduct a trooper academy next year.

Oklahomans are sweltering under 100-degree weather that has gripped the state much of this week.

At least eight people died Friday when a tractor-trailer slammed into a line of cars stopped on a northeast Oklahoma turnpike in a series of accidents that left twisted metal and debris strewn about the highway and stranded miles of traffic in scorching heat for hours.

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ONEOK, Inc. announced that its Oklahoma Natural Gas Company division filed an application with the Oklahoma Corporation Commission on June 26, seeking a $66.08 million increase in the utility's base rates.

Oklahoma drivers will contend with a lot of orange cones and caution signs this summer.