Average bills would increase if PSO is given the go-ahead to begin collecting money from customers to offset costs of new construction projects and several acquisitions of existing facilities. tulsaworld.com/news/state-r...

Officials announced Wednesday that Saint Francis had received its verification as a Level I Trauma Center from the American College of Surgeons. Officials said that the verification is a full, three-year verification. tulsaworld.com/news/local/a...

Jimmy Kimmel’s Tuesday night return to television screens will not be carried on Tulsa's KTUL channel 8 or other stations owned by Sinclair Broadcasting Group. tulsaworld.com/life-enterta...

"For a show that’s about someone fighting for truth, there’s a longstanding need for the truth in a place like Oklahoma, so that’s where we find our hero.” tulsaworld.com/opinion/colu...

Scene Writer Jimmie Tramel watched the first five episodes and has these notes to get you ready for the series. tulsaworld.com/life-enterta...

I’m sticking to my argument that it’s better to depend on legitimate news organizations powered by human intelligence. tulsaworld.com/opinion/colu...

“They’re not going to come set their tent back up because they know it’s going to be taken and thrown in the trash. And they’ll move on to Portland or Los Angeles or San Francisco or somewhere else.” -- Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt in an interview with the Tulsa World. tulsaworld.com/news/state-r...

First, unlike the newly named editor on the show, I did not successfully sell toilet paper to land the top job here. tulsaworld.com/opinion/colu...

This story is free to read Friday-Tuesday thanks to the Tulsa Area United Way. How did the city come to decide placing boulders on the Fourth Street sidewalk adjacent to the downtown bus station was a good idea? tulsaworld.com/news/local/g...

Gov. Stitt's appointees to the Oklahoma State Board of Education found a way to set a special meeting after weeks of their requests for one going unanswered by State Superintendent Ryan Walters. tulsaworld.com/news/local/e...

Thanks to the Tulsa Area United Way, everyone will have unlimited digital access to the Tulsa World's website this Labor Day weekend starting on Friday through Tuesday. tulsaworld.com/news/local/b...

"Once we had a conversation about who we think is wrong about what, we had a conversation about accountability that we all share — he in his role as governor and my role as mayor and knowing there are some things we can get done that aren't insanely political." tulsaworld.com/opinion/colu...

“My father was a newspaper columnist in Connecticut for decades, so I chose to cover a similarly exciting beat — local government,” Kevin Canfield likes to say. “OK, it’s not glamorous. But I would argue it’s important, so I keep at it.” tulsaworld.com/opinion/colu...

"How much longer must we suffer through front-page stories on the homeless?" asked reader David Knight. tulsaworld.com/opinion/colu...

But the city councilor behind the proposed ordinance amendment says the measure is aimed at all people occupying city medians, not an effort to remove the homeless from the streets. tulsaworld.com/news/local/g...

Tulsa-based law firm has withdrawn as general counsel to the Oklahoma State Board of Education amid ongoing conflicts between recent gubernatorial appointees to the board and the chairman of the board, State Superintendent Ryan Walters. tulsaworld.com/news/local/e...

A father and son from Texas are buying up restricted housing meant for low-income Oklahoma tenants. Then they’re booting the tenants out. tulsaworld.com/news/local/a...

The Safe Home Tulsa Rehousing Initiative aims to get about 300 homeless individuals and families into housing in about nine months. tulsaworld.com/news/local/g...

The project goal: "Design methods for the discouragement of behaviors such as encampments and prolonged stays in certain areas." tulsaworld.com/news/local/g...

The latest poll finds that U.S. adults express “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in just three institutions. tulsaworld.com/opinion/colu...

The Tulsa World Podcast episodes -- available on Apple and Spotify -- include each part of the Bever series read by Reporter Tim Stanley, who wrote the special report that goes over the events of July 22, 2015, where a quintuple homicide made international headlines.

I sat down with the news staff of a newer publication in Tulsa recently. They had a lot on their minds.

The series, which appears in the print edition of the Tulsa World starting Sunday, is read by Reporter Tim Stanley, who wrote the special report that goes over the events of July 22, 2015, where a quintuple homicide made international headlines. tulsaworld.com/news/local/c...

A Tulsa World Special Report: Ten years after the Bever brothers murdered their parents and three siblings as part of a planned killing spree, people still wonder what forces or factors put two Broken Arrow teens on the path to mass murder. Read the series: go.tulsaworld.com/bever

When City Editor Paul Tyrrell and I talked with reporter Tim Stanley after reading drafts of this series on the Bever murders, he quoted to us a line from Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel "Crime and Punishment": "The darker the night, the brighter the stars." tulsaworld.com/opinion/colu...

An ethics investigation initiated last year was related to a contractual relationship between the state and a private company that employed Shelley Zumwalt’s husband. tulsaworld.com/news/state-r...

"It appears this alleged 'surplus' can only be derived by illegally adding all funds. Bond funds, debt service funds, student-raised funds, scholarship funds, workers’ comp funds — these cannot legally be added together and used except for their intended purpose." tulsaworld.com/news/local/e...

The principal chief of the country’s largest federally recognized tribe is speaking out in response to a conservative columnist Ann Coulter's anti-Indigenous social media post. tulsaworld.com/news/local/i...

State Superintendent Ryan Walters is now using the cost of school lunches and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s proposed nutritional changes to the nation’s school lunch programs to issue new demands and threats to local school districts across Oklahoma. tulsaworld.com/news/local/e...

Perhaps sooner rather than later, Thunder owners will sell, but OKC has positioned itself well to retain the franchise, writes Sports Columnist Berry Tramel.

“It’s tough being a kid — and a parent — these days. These are commonsense protections that will help prevent children from getting exposed and addicted to pornography,” said Sen. Jerry Alvord, R-Wilson, one of the authors of the new law. tulsaworld.com/news/state-r...

The federal lawsuit alleges deliberate indifference to known bullying and sexual harassment that caused the sophomore’s suicide in 2024. tulsaworld.com/news/local/c...

As many as 17 hospitals in the state are expected to have to close if the changes contemplated by congressional leaders and the Trump administration are enacted. tulsaworld.com/news/state-r...

"But this entire past week, the young people been posting on social media that Greenwood was going to be a war zone. And everyone knew that," said Greenwood Chamber of Commerce President Freeman Culver. tulsaworld.com/news/local/c...

Tulsa Mayor Monroe Nichols calls for an "end to the senseless youth gun violence in our city.” tulsaworld.com/news/local/c...

Watch the viral video clip of Sen. Bernie Sanders after someone in the crowd broke the news about the United State bombing Iran on Saturday. It was captured by Tulsa World video intern Cassidy Martin. tulsaworld.com/news/local/g...

Lt. Marcus Harper spoke out in 2020 about "systemic racist practices of certain officers" at the Tulsa Police Department. He's now suing on grounds of malicious prosecution and abuse of process. tulsaworld.com/news/local/c...

The state board approved the standards at its Feb. 27 meeting, although several members have since publicly said they were misled by Ryan Walters about the standards’ content and the timing of the vote. #oklaed tulsaworld.com/news/local/e...

"One of the worst mistakes in Texas A&M history led to a museum at Oklahoma State University." Great start of a story by Parker Gerl. Can't wait to see this next time I am in Stillwater. tulsaworld.com/sports/colle...

"In one of the most passive-aggressive press releases I've seen, Sen. Shane Jett of Shawnee — on behalf of the Oklahoma Legislature's Freedom Caucus — reminded everyone on Friday that drivers can legally run over protestors," writes columnist Ginnie Graham. tulsaworld.com/opinion/colu...

With the parish growing and 100 new students coming into the Classical School in the past year, adding space was critical, the church said in announcing the purchase of the downtown property known for its white-domed building. tulsaworld.com/news/local/e...

Legislation that will lengthen the school year for students in Oklahoma and allow veteran teachers to earn higher salaries earned Gov. Kevin Stitt’s signature. Here's a summary of some the new education laws. tulsaworld.com/news/local/e...

The state agency that sponsors Epic Charter Schools is investigating the “fiscal integrity” and compliance of Oklahoma’s third-largest school system amid budget slashing that has left many students without an in-person school to return to when summer break ends. tulsaworld.com/news/local/e...

For the first time in his career, Montgomery sits atop the Tulsa-area coaching salary list — a distinction that makes him the best bargain in Oklahoma football, writes Columnist Bill Haisten. tulsaworld.com/sports/high-...

The benefit across the region includes Saint Francis serving as the primary destination for the region’s most serious emergencies and trauma surgeons, neurosurgeons and other specialists immediately available all the time to respond. tulsaworld.com/news/local/a...

OU, OSU, TU and ORU now can share up to $20.5 million with its athletes: Some believe that universities will have to begin cutting sports as a result of the additional cost of directly compensating athletes, but OU, OSU, TU and ORU have yet to announce such intentions. tulsaworld.com/sports/colle...

Dr. Kayse Shrum, former Oklahoma State University president, will join the Chickasaw Nation as its new chief health strategy officer, the tribe announced. tulsaworld.com/news/local/e...

Sheila Buck said she has no regrets for her actions that day in 2020 when she refused a request from a Trump campaign representative to change her T-shirt, which said “I can’t breathe."

"After getting what he wanted in a badly timed tax cut that we can’t afford and vetoing bills that would actually help Oklahomans, Gov. Stitt decided to bully with personal attacks as the Legislature worked to cancel those vetoes. He even went after the wives of legislators."

The 10-year-old grandson of a woman killed in 2023, in what Broken Arrow police called a murder-suicide, has been identified as a victim of what investigators believe to be another murder-suicide in Broken Arrow.