Oklahoma Government News

Despite calls by several Oklahoma legislators to address hundreds of millions of dollars in state tax credits and exemptions for businesses and industries, little has been done as another session approaches its end.

"It's frustrating and it hurts, you know, because you've got stuff you've got to do," Ella James said.

Gov. Mary Fallin is proposing a last-minute legislative change to the state's Insure Oklahoma program that would direct $50 million in state tobacco taxes to pay for more than 9,000 Oklahomans who are expected to lose their health insurance under the program.

Backers of a museum devoted to Oklahoma popular culture say they're still hopeful state lawmakers will approve $40 million to help build it.

An Oklahoma death row inmate scheduled to be executed next month plans to ask the state Pardon and Parole Board to commute his death sentence.

Unlike the small, clandestine labs we see in Oklahoma, Mexican meth is made in super labs, where they don't produce grams or pounds, but tons of meth.

The average price for a gallon of gasoline in Oklahoma City has jumped at least 34 cents over the past month while the national average has added less than a dime.

The Senate on Wednesday unanimously approved a resolution honoring U.S. District Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange, Oklahoma Supreme Court Justice Tom Colbert, Court of Criminal Appeals Judge David Lewis and Tulsa County District Court Judge Carlos Chappelle.

A Shawnee native who was 1 of the nation's first astronauts - Gordon Cooper - is being honored by the Oklahoma Senate.

"It was just for the fun of it," this young mother said. "I liked the effect of it and then I couldn't stop." Then Morgan started working at a doctor's office where she said she stole a prescription pad and forging her own prescriptions.

State and local authorities say they're searching for a missing Holdenville man who may be the victim of foul play.

A bill designed to make low-price retail events like "Black Friday" sales legal in Oklahoma has been approved by the Oklahoma Senate.

In the 2010 Census in Oklahoma, nearly a half-million people identified themselves as Native American, or about 13% of the state's 3.75 million residents.

Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma on Tuesday circulated a letter where he and five GOP colleagues explains circumstances in which he won't allow legislation through the Senate quickly by unanimous consent using the chamber's "hotline" system.

Public schools across the state would be able to "opt out" of many state mandates under a bill approved by the Oklahoma House.

Gov. Mary Fallin: The governor signed bills to lower the income tax rate, repair the state Capitol and raise driver's license fees.

A consulting firm hired by Oklahoma to help answer the question of how to insure 200,000 people without health coverage told the state's Medicaid board that an existing program could be used to build a broader system by 2015.

May 13 - Bob Waldrop, 60, fourth generation Oklahoman and prominent Oklahoma City community member walked onto an active construction site for the Keystone XL pipeline in Seminole County and locked himself to an Excavator, a piece of heavy machinery used in the construction of the pipeline.

Despite new online scheduling capabilities and occasional Saturday appointments, frustration with the state department that administers driver's license testing continues to boil over.

A Pakistani human rights activist who founded an all-girls school said the Taliban was "more afraid of the books than bombs" as he and his 15-year-old daughter, who survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban late last year, were honored Monday at the memorial for Oklahoma City bombing victims.