Oklahoma Watch

Dawn Deschler is on her second lease at the Villas at Midtown apartment complex in Tulsa, and despite consistently paying her rent, she has been without air conditioning since the beginning.

It is the start of the month, and rent is due.Most tenants in Oklahoma know who to pay, but tenants at apartments managed by, or formerly managed by, Vesta Realty aren’t so sure. That confusion stems from ongoing legal battles between Vesta Realty and YSA Investments 1.

Before the school supply pick-up at the Mustang Conference Center even started, children of all ages and their families were streaming through the door.

One of the Senate’s newest members was months late disclosing 700 personal stock trades that together are worth millions of dollars, according to a NOTUS review of new congressional financial records.

Oklahoma voters will decide Aug. 25 whether to allow the state to opt out of paying for one of its longest-running economic development programs — and school leaders in some of the state's fastest-growing local economies say the change could end up reducing funding for schools statewide.

Shelby Salazar was blissfully unaware of fentanyl becoming one of the deadliest drugs in Oklahoma until it reached her family.

An AI-powered, billionaire-backed chain of private schools promises to educate students with two hours of virtual learning a day and entrepreneurship workshops.There are no teachers, and tuition is nearly double the most expensive private school in the state.

Tulsa attorney Colleen McCarty waited for someone to challenge Steve Kunzweiler in the race for Tulsa County district attorney.By late January, McCarty realized no one was coming. So she talked to her family and decided to run herself.

For decades, state agencies and municipalities have quietly signed NDAs while competing to attract new employers. But as data center proposals have spread across the state, those contracts have become the subject of legislative proposals, citizen protests and growing questions about where business confidentiality ends and the public's right to know begins.