An Oklahoma grand jury issues a scathing report, but no indictments on...
An Oklahoma Multi-County Grand Jury probe into the state’s management of federal educational relief money found a lack of safeguards for how funds were spent but resulted in no criminal indictments....
View ArticleAnonymous groups are spending big in Oklahoma Supreme Court justice retention...
A handful of groups, including many that don’t reveal their financial backers, have launched a political ad blitz to try and sway voters on whether to retain three state Supreme Court justices in the...
View ArticleOne Oklahoma Supreme Court justice is ousted after dark money groups dumped...
Oklahomans narrowly chose to retain two of the three state Supreme Court justices who were on the ballot inTuesday’s election after anonymous groups spent millions to sway voters. Voters chose to...
View ArticleOklahoma needs watchdog journalism now more than ever
Looking back at the stories we published in 2024 at The Frontier, I’m proud of the journalism we did that uncovered things the public should know. This year, The Frontier partnered with national...
View ArticleStitt cabinet member learned of his firing via social media during poultry...
Update 8:45 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 4 Abegail Cave, a spokeswoman for Gov. Kevin Stitt, told The Frontier Wednesday that Oklahoma Secretary of Energy and Environment Ken McQueen, fired by Stitt during a...
View Article‘Hey, you’re not getting paid. See you later.’
Employers owed Oklahoma workers at least $9.7 million in unpaid wages and penalties over the past four and a half years, according to an analysis of state and federal data by The Frontier. The...
View ArticleA trip down the Illinois River as a court weighs the poultry industry’s...
A group of 11 kayakers gathered on the shore of the Illinois River in late December, their brightly colored vessels lined in a row, ready to launch for the 8-and-a-half mile trip down stream. Ed Fite,...
View ArticleOklahoma is still trying to use a recanted confession to retry ‘Innocent Man’...
Federal courts have found a man’s videotaped confession in the 1984 death of an Ada convenience store clerk to be almost entirely false but the state of Oklahoma is still fighting in court over...
View ArticleState agency accused of flooding northeast Oklahoma town defies federal...
Oklahoma’s Grand River Dam Authority is refusing to supply a federal regulator with documentation it used to study flooding around the town of Miami. The study, ordered by the Federal Energy...
View ArticleGRDA reverses course, agrees to give flooding study files to federal regulators
After initially refusing to do so, the Grand River Dam Authority on Wednesday said it would give federal regulators supporting documents it used to study flooding around the northeastern Oklahoma town...
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