FORT GIBSON — Residents who plan to rebuild property damaged by recent flooding were advised to “talk with a floodplain administrator before they even drive a nail.”

Former Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson was tapped this week to help lead a nationwide effort to enforce local, state and federal laws that prohibit animal cruelty. 

Are you a veteran looking for a job? At the Eastern Oklahoma VA Health Care System, we oversee three distinct avenues for veterans to gain full- or part-time employment or work therapy. The paths include Compensated Work Therapy/Transitional Work Experience (CWT/TWE), Compensated Work Therapy/Supported Employment (CWT/SE), and Vocational Development (VOC DEV). Each one of these unique programs allows our veterans the opportunity to receive the much-needed support to obtain employment or re-enter the workforce while earning a paycheck.

Food, music, books, and places all have the power to evoke visceral memories. Such is the fodder for two recent books, one a novel, “The Bookshop of Yesterday” by Amy Meyerson (Park Row Books, 2018), the other, “The Power of Moments” (Simon and Schuster, 2017), a business psychology study by brothers Chip and Dan Heath.

The distance between Kaw Lake and a planned water treatment plant to be built on the west side of Enid is 70 miles. According to the project manager, 60% of the landowners in the pipeline’s footprint have, at the very least, been contacted about selling impacted property, and offers still are being prepared for the other 40%.

Oklahoma Lt. Gov. Matt Pinnell went fishing Tuesday morning, but he wasn’t shirking his official responsibilities.

Sprouts Farmers Market has recalled packages of frozen spinach because they may contain Listeria.

Modern Day Edwards Street has seen many decades pass since the Ku Klux Klan led a parade there after the last early-day African American resident left in 1920.

Garfield County Certified Director of Emergency Management Director Mike Honigsberg said the damage in the county was seen in Enid, Waukomis, Garber, Kremlin and a "few areas in between."

Campers ride their imagination to the stars in this week's "Comets, Planets and Space, Oh My!" camp.

The waterline along the trees on Muskogee County District 1 Commissioner Ken Doke's property remains visible days after the flood waters receded — the leaves on otherwise lively trees hang dead about 12 to 15 feet up.

A fire gutted a Village East apartment early Monday morning, potentially because of a lit cigarette, said Muskogee Fire Department Assistant Fire Chief Gordon Lee.

Muskogee County Treasurer Kelly Garrett credited his staff's "good detective work" for what he described as a "very successful" resale of unredeemed property for which ad valorem taxes were delinquent.  

Fajita Rita owners and employees say they see a new beginning as they clean their flood-damaged restaurant.

The Payne County Board of Commissioners is urging individuals with recent flood losses to register for disaster assistance with the Federal Emergency Management Agency by calling 1-800-621-3362 or going online at DisasterAssistance.gov.

A 39-year-old Enid woman was sentenced Monday to 40 years in prison on an amended charge of second-degree murder for stabbing a woman to death last year.

Students and alumni of the University of Oklahoma’s organ program met with Provost Kyle Harper on Monday to try and keep the American Organ Institute alive.

Representatives from a Duncan company are participating in the 2019 Paris Air Show as part of the U.S. Delegation from Oklahoma.

Construction is underway on an official Oklahoma City Thunder basketball court at Chadick Park — with the court set for a ribbon-cutting ceremony next week.

While battling the blaze, a garage door fell on several firefighters, but there were no serious injures, Helms said. The occupants of the home, three adults and three pets, were able to make it out unharmed, he said. 

A judge granted continuance in a shooting death case after attorneys received a key report just two days before a preliminary hearing.

According to Catholic News Service, the third-party reporting system, which would be operated by an outside vendor contracted by USCCB, should be operational no later than May 31, 2020.

In the decade of the #MeToo movement and widespread revelations of sexual abuse, more women are reporting incidents of sexual assault to authorities, studies show.

A program unlike any other in the country is facing elimination.

City councilors will begin during the coming weeks the process of appointing members to a newly created tourism board that will report to the Muskogee Redevelopment Authority.

Pat Wilcox said she's always felt compelled to do a little bit more — whether it's cooking for a potluck, quilting for a shut-in or advocating for a renter.

About a dozen Oklahomans gathered on the east side of the Cleveland County Courthouse Wednesday morning, the trial between the state of Oklahoma and Johnson & Johnson scheduled to continue that afternoon.

Chandra Rai, director of the Mewbourne School of Petroleum and Geological Engineering at the University of Oklahoma, remembers when everyone thought all the oil was gone.

ENID, Okla. — It's been 10 years since the last nuns left St. Mary's Regional Medical Center, but many in Enid still feel their impact on the community.