Northwestern Oklahoma State University's Camp Ranger event for incoming freshmen is set for July 31 through Aug. 2 on the ...

Former Alva resident Jim Ayers has received many awards during his career with Brown's Shoe Fit. Ayers managed the store in ...

As President Donald Trump heads to Texas on Friday for a firsthand look at the devastation caused by catastrophic flooding, he has remained conspicuously quiet about his previous promises to do away ...

After two years of legislative discussion and debate on the distractions of cell phones in class, Oklahoma schools have months to implement a bell-to-bell ban on devices for students during the ...

A mandate that all Oklahoma public schools offer cost-free cafeteria meals is “nothing more than an empty threat,” a House Republican leader said. The head of the House Common Education Committee, Rep ...

State senators in the interim will take a look at sports betting, removing elected officials and the use of goats to eradicate red cedar trees. Those are just a few of the 74 Senate interim study ...

We got to host grandson Sam all this weekend, and his parents. Sam is a free spirit. He just turned 4. He loves to talk to anyone and everyone. He loves to hug the girls and women, he doesn’t care. He ...

At least that's what I told the guys at Hardtner, Kansas, that asked me what happened to my arm. They all knew that wasn't what happened because their librarian doesn't have a mean bone in her body. I ...

Surprisingly, only one of Secretariat’s 660 children ever won a “triple crown” race. That child, Risen Star, won both the Preakness and the Belmont Stakes in 1988. But there is lots of money to be ...

The very thing that you dread and fear can keep you thinking about it – a lot, in fact. And that constant thinking can give way to obsessive anxiety. And then the obsessive anxiety and fear begin to ...

Okay, I am going to go out on a limb with today’s article, and hopefully after reading it most of you will not think I have completely lost it. A few weeks ago, I took a couple of days off from the ...

Alva Rotary Club held their annual Fourth of July Fireworks extravaganza Friday night at the Alva Rec Center.