The Frontier

Most youth who lack permanent housing in the state don’t fit the federal housing department’s definitions of homelessness and often don’t qualify for services.

Tulsa Municipal Court says requests may take one to three business days to complete, but it took 30 days for The Frontier to get records.

Officials say outdated construction rules make it too costly to build affordable residences. Lawmakers are weighing how to cut red tape without cutting corners on safety.

A deal for the City of Tulsa to send traffic and other municipal cases involving Muscogee Nation citizens to tribal court doesn’t cover the descendants of formerly enslaved people who are also tribal citizens.

Services for homeless youth aren’t keeping up with growing demand in the state.

For decades, funding for a state scholarship program memorializing the 1921 burning of Black Wall Street was limited, and students related to massacre victims weren’t prioritized in the selection process.

A 77-year-old McLoud woman told The Frontier she let her grandson use her name for a network of secretive political groups involved in several Tulsa-area local races and at least one state Senate race in 2024.

Oklahoma was required to create a special office to help with missing and murdered cases involving Indigenous people under a 2021 state law, but federal funding legislators planned for never materialized.

The Tulsa Police Department has already released over 100 pages of records to The Frontier that show disciplinary actions for officers who were found to have violated agency rules.

Oklahoma agencies must appoint a coordinator for Gov. Kevin Stitt’s Oklahoma Division of Government Efficiency “as soon as possible,” according to an internal email dated Thursday.