The Frontier

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.

A Grand River Dam Authority’s report found it shouldn’t have to buy out landowners affected by chronic flooding. But the agency won’t hand over records showing how the study was performed.

The Frontier used public records, information provided by state officials and other sources to fact-check recent claims about illegal immigration in Oklahoma.

Gov. Kevin Stitt fired Oklahoma Secretary of Energy and Environment Ken McQueen via social media on Tuesday, halfway through the first day of a federal court evidentiary hearing in Tulsa on the state’s decades-long lawsuit against several Arkansas poultry companies on degradation of the Illinois River watershed.

The attempts to build layers of secrecy around a tangled web of independent political groups span numerous post office boxes, corporate filings and other records across several states.

The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals urged the Legislature to change the law to allow pregnant medical marijuana card holders to be prosecuted for child neglect.