
Walters Lawsuits End in Settlements as Superintendent Race Heats Up
The former state schools chief and his senior adviser settled two suits with fired employees on July 22, closing the legal chapter while their legacy dominates the 2026 race.
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The former state schools chief and his senior adviser settled two suits with fired employees on July 22, closing the legal chapter while their legacy dominates the 2026 race.

Bond-program items, a new I-44 interchange and bridge work on the South Extension kept the roughly $5 billion program moving at the July 7 meeting.

Gentner Drummond led Mike Mazzei by about 1,100 votes on June 16 — under the 50 percent threshold Oklahoma requires to win a primary outright.

An early budget, a first-in-state privacy law and an election-year adjournment: how the Second Regular Session of the 60th Legislature stacked up.

The general appropriations bill is law three weeks after the April 1 deal, but Oklahoma agencies still need the detailed bills to know their real numbers.

Legislative leaders and Gov. Stitt broke their own calendar with an April 1 agreement covering teacher pay, health funding and a push to cut the grocery tax further.

Gov. Stitt signed Senate Bill 546 on March 20, giving Oklahomans rights over their personal data beginning January 1, 2027.

A decade after induced quakes peaked, the Corporation Commission's disposal-well directives remain the working model — and the data behind them is worth revisiting.

The Highway Patrol-led sweep of homeless encampments on state land has reached Tulsa and Oklahoma City, and questions about cost and authority are following it.

Lawmakers filed thousands of measures ahead of the Second Regular Session, which convenes February 2 and runs through May 29.