All the headlines from our Oklahoma Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 13 2018 // Gov. Mary Fallin’s office says four counties in northeastern Oklahoma have been designated disaster areas because of drought, making farmers and ranchers eligible for federal assistance.Fallin’s office said...
Aug 7 2018 // U.S. judge has determined that a lawsuit the state of Oklahoma filed against the makers of opioids does not “necessarily rise” to a federal issue.The ruling by U.S. District Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange in...
Aug 6 2018 // Central Oklahoma residents won’t get a trial this fall for a case against an oil company accused of triggering earthquakes that damaged homes and buildings.A Cleveland County judge has outlined rules for the...
Aug 3 2018 // The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued citations to three companies involved in a natural gas rig explosion in Oklahoma that killed five workers.OSHA announced that it’s fined Patterson-UTI...
Jul 31 2018 // Oklahoma City-based wholesale insurance broker and program manager, Midlands Management Corp., has introduced comprehensive coverage for the marijuana industry in Oklahoma.The Midlands program offers products liability,...
Jul 30 2018 // Central Oklahoma residents won’t get a trial this fall for a case against an oil company accused of triggering earthquakes that damaged homes and buildings.The Journal Record reports that a Cleveland County judge...
Jul 20 2018 // Central Oklahoma authorities say three people have been injured in an explosion and fire at a saltwater disposal well.Kingfisher County emergency management officials say the explosion occurred shortly after 3 p.m....
Jul 18 2018 // Oklahoma’s attorney general says he’s assigning a team of lawyers to advise him on matters surrounding the Board of Health’s decision to insert last-minute restrictions on the state’s new medical...
Jul 17 2018 // A city in central Oklahoma is spending millions of dollars preparing for self-driving cars while working to alleviate traffic problems.Edmond Traffic Engineer Tom Minnick told The Oklahoman that the city is laying down...
Jul 16 2018 // Pot advocates celebrated the culmination of a yearslong effort to ease restrictions on the use of cannabis last month when nearly 60 percent of Oklahoma voters approved medical marijuana.Oklahoma’s proponents had...
Jul 16 2018 // Three new property/casualty insurance companies have been approved to do business in Arkansas, the state insurance department reported. All three are based in Florida.Counting the recently accepted companies, 10 new...
Jul 16 2018 // Glen Mulready, a long-time insurance professional and state representative, has won the nomination to run as the Republican candidate for Oklahoma’s next insurance commissioner.He will face Democratic challenger...
Jul 16 2018 // If a recent ruling by the Oklahoma Supreme Court remains unchanged, the state’s tax authority may end up having to pay millions of dollars in rebates to workers’ compensation carriers and companies that...
Jul 10 2018 // Oklahoma’s 4.0 earthquakes are up significantly this year, but the overall rate of earthquakes is declining.Oklahoma has had six quakes of at least magnitude 4.0 halfway through this year, which is one more than all...
Jul 9 2018 // If a recent ruling by the Oklahoma Supreme Court remains unchanged, the state’s tax authority may end up having to pay millions of dollars in rebates to workers’ compensation carriers and companies that...
Jul 5 2018 // Three new property/casualty insurance companies have been approved to do business in Arkansas, the state insurance department reported. All three are based in Florida.Counting the recently accepted companies, 10 new...
Jul 3 2018 // Business remains strong in nine Midwest and Plains states, but a new monthly survey suggests growth is slowing as concerns about trade and tariffs increase.The region’s overall economic index decreased to 61.8 in...
Jul 2 2018 // The head of Oklahoma’s health agency said there’s a framework in place to get the medical marijuana industry rolling in the state soon, despite concerns from Gov. Mary Fallin that a statewide vote “opens...
Jul 2 2018 // Cassie Brown has been appointed Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation at the Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation.She succeeds Ryan Brannan, who left the division on May 1....
Jun 29 2018 // Glen Mulready, a long-time insurance professional and state representative, in the June 26 primary won the Republican nomination to be Oklahoma’s next insurance commissioner.He will face Democratic challenger...