Rural Oklahoma

More than 80 percent of Oklahoma fire departments are staffed by volunteers. Rural firefighters are putting their lives on the line for no pay after a ton of training, and that makes it hard to find enough people to do the job.

Season 6, Episode 10.

A joint committee heard proposals to spend American Rescue Plan funds on expanding rural broadband access, increasing the number of health care workers in Oklahoma and ramping up workforce training.

Nearly 40% of the state's cities with 50,000 or fewer residents have received the virus relief funding, up from 11% four weeks earlier.

Oklahoma has a major shortage of pediatricians to solve.The state would need another 250 pediatricians today just to meet the national per child average.…

Our guest is the Oklahoma-born, New York-based author and artist, John Paul Brammer. His new memoir, "¡Hola Papi!," is just being published. The book is…

Updated July 23, 2:20 p.m. with information about funding for Oklahoma.As the Delta variant pushes a rise in COVID-19 cases, the White House is sending…

The Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust will help OSU with a new, rural physician residency program.TSET is committing $2.4 million to the program, with…

Rural and urban Oklahomans have different mortality rates from COVID-19 -- and the gap is widening."The split between urban and rural experience of…

Increasing access to high-speed internet in rural Oklahoma may be an even tougher task than it sounds because of federal uncertainty.Oklahoma’s Rural…