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KWGS News

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Newscasts from KWGS. Posted Monday through Friday. Recapping the latest news from the Tulsa area and throughout Oklahoma.
  • A Black man who spent 24 years behind bars for a crime he’s since been cleared of is suing Tulsa. The City of Tulsa’s Beyond Apology Commission discusses the fight for equitable maternal healthcare. Frustrated by a lack of town halls from elected officials, a local activist group tried putting on its own.
  • Tulsa’s U.S. congressman is reportedly in El Salvador. Workers at a Green Country Veterans Affairs hospital are worried about potential federal budget cuts. The head of Tulsa’s public library system says local branches won’t be hurt by federal cuts. Tulsa’s mayor wants to bring city hall to your corner of town.
  • A tulsa commission is opposing a state bill that would automatically charge undocumented immigrants accused of other crimes with a felony. Beto O’Rourke and Steve Schmidt visit Tulsa to organize. Two additional measles cases have been reported in Oklahoma.
  • Tulsa's city auditor is asking residents to give feedback. Gov. Stitt is boasting of a "Texodus." Poetry and visual art transform downtown Tulsa this week.
  • - President Trump’s tariffs have generated economic uncertainty throughout the country, including within Tulsa’s city government.- The first cohort of Tulsans have completed their neighborhood academy courses.- Tulsa’s public transit authority is set to operate nine new electric buses by the end of July.
  • - A community psychiatric outreach program in Tulsa will continue to get funding for now. - The chief of a local volunteer fire department wants Gov. Kevin Stitt impeached. - Local and state education leaders don’t seem worried about how a proposed dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education would affect their schools.- Looming federal cuts to Medicaid left one state senator sounding the alarm. - A couple in a small Oklahoma town is trying to save a piece of Americana.
  • A city councilor says Tulsa’s alternatives to traditional first response are on the chopping block. A Tulsa-born man with fast feet is going for gold. The outlook for renewable energy in Oklahoma.
  • A tornado tore through Owasso this morning. The state agency that coordinates certified mental health clinics across Oklahoma says it’s freezing funding.
  • Tulsa County Commissioners are hiring a person to manage the newly formed Office of Government Efficiency and Transparency. The city’s Asian American Affairs commissioners want Tulsa’s Islamic community to have greater input into their efforts. The Justice Department has announced a surge of FBI resources to address violent crimes in Indian Country.
  • A bill that allows the Oklahoma Museum of Popular Culture more avenues for funding is moving through the state legislature. Frank Lloyd Wright’s only realized skyscraper, Price Tower in Bartlesville, is set to be auctioned through a Chapter 7 bankruptcy sale in May.
  • City officials are looking to prevent violent crime in Tulsa before it happens. Tulsa county is seeking a manager to head the “Office of Government Efficiency & Transparency.” It’s the end of Arbor Week in Oklahoma.