Oklahoma Watch

On Tuesday, Attorney General Gentner Drummond filed a lawsuit in Cleveland County against Allstate, Oklahoma’s third-largest writer of homeowners insurance, alleging systematic underpayment of claims of roof damage.

Just days after its board approved a flat budget with no provider cuts for the new fiscal year, the Oklahoma Health Care Authority told the federal government it plans to cut more than $200 million in payments to state hospitals under the state’s Medicaid program.

Amid the farm fields of northwest Oklahoma City, a place where high-voltage power lines converge has attracted interest from two data center developers, each seeking to build at the western terminus of a new $72 million transmission project.

Oklahoma City’s eviction rates have doubled since 2016 and are more than double New York City's.More than 40% of evictions filed in Oklahoma County were from the same 100 properties.

Six months after President Donald Trump warned states not to regulate artificial intelligence, some are forging ahead with their own laws anyway. Nearly all such efforts in the Oklahoma Legislature have hit a dead end.

In May, Operation SAFE, the governor’s initiative to remove homeless encampments from state property, was enacted in Norman.Two weeks later, the Norman City Council was criticized by residents and officials over an agenda item proposing a temporary suspension of the zoning ordinance to allow camping in residential areas. The agenda item was not scheduled for a vote, but was met with a unanimous rejection after public outcry.

It is a tale of three cities.On the morning of May 22, Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers cleared a homeless encampment on vacant state-owned property in Norman under Gov. Kevin Stitt’s Operation SAFE initiative. Service providers said there was no warning that an encampment sweep would be happening.

More than two-thirds of Oklahoma county jails no longer allow families or friends to visit in-person, making costly phone calls and video messages the only way to stay in touch with detainees.

A Wyoming-based organization is testing Oklahoma law by attempting a cruise sweepstakes for people who contribute at least $50 to one of their preferred political candidates in the state’s 2026 election cycle.

Eight-year-old Petronila Ramos-Mejia didn’t want to go to her babysitter that evening. She wanted to stay with her grandfather, Juan Mejia-Garcia.