Rick Maranon

State agencies are asking Oklahoma lawmakers for more than $1 billion in new spending next fiscal year, a figure that could significantly strain the state’s $12.47 billion budget, according to the State Senate’s top budget official.

For the first time since ‘Nudiegate,’ the Oklahoma State Board of Education will meet. This is the first time members of the State Board of Education will share a table with State Superintendent Ryan Walters since a Rated R movie with full frontal nudity played during executive session.

Broken Arrow's police and fire leadership visited the Ford Amphitheater in Colorado Springs, the sister amphitheater to the one currently being built in Broken Arrow, to learn about the public safety measures they'll need to put into place in their own community.

For the first time in a long time, if not ever, the Oklahoma State Board of Education held its own meeting without its chairman, State Superintendent Ryan Walters.

State Superintendent Ryan Walters released a video on his social media pages attempting to assure Oklahoma families their children's public schools are safe, but in the video he also took credit for something he had to be legally forced by Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond to do last year.

FOX23 went in depth with Tulsa Mayor Monroe Nichols, who spoke unedited on Tulsa's homelessness crisis, public safety, comments made by the governor and other topics.

State lawmakers said repairs will be coming to Tulsa's levee system in the upcoming months.

State Senator and Oklahoma Senate Education Committee Chairman Adam Pugh (R-Edmond) said State Superintendent Ryan Walters' proposals will not be going into effect this school year.

FOX23 goes in depth on State Superintendent Ryan Walters plans to change how testing is done in Oklahoma public schools

Last year, nearly 700,000 Oklahomans used the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, to help them buy groceries. FOX23 is going in depth on the major changes coming to SNAP on New Years Day 2026 and the changes the State of Oklahoma got approved for this week.