Thousands of spectators and paddlers have descended on Hong Kong’s Tsim Sha Tsui promenade to cheer and compete as the 50th anniversary of the city’s annual International Dragon Boat Races gets under way. More than 220 teams from 16 jurisdictions, including Hong Kong, Australia and Qatar, are competing in the two-day event starting on Saturday,…
It hasn’t been long since Oklahomans could fill up their tanks for less than $2 a gallon. Now, due to ongoing conflicts in the Middle East, prices have skyrocketed. The national average keeps climbing. According to AAA Fuel Prices, the national average rose to $3.956 as of Monday, March 23. Oklahoma’s average slightly decreased from…
After a weekend of wildfires and a sharp dip into freezing temperatures, Oklahoma will soon face potentially record-breaking heat at the end of the week. According to the National Weather Service, much of the state could see highs over 90 degrees on Thursday, March 19, through Sunday, March 22. In addition to rising temperatures, Oklahoma…
A volatile wildfire threat is unfolding across the southern Plains this week, with the largest blaze early in the 2026 wildfire season, the Ranger Road Fire, scorching huge swaths of land in western Oklahoma and southwestern Kansas. On Tuesday, the Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management reported widespread wildfire activity across Beaver, Texas and Woodward counties,…
Major snow, ice storm to affect more than 150 million people in southern, eastern US A high-impact winter storm will spread snow and ice across more than two dozen states from Texas through the Carolinas and Massachusetts from Friday through the weekend. The amount and extent of snow and ice could cut power and disrupt…
For the first time in its 60-year history, the Sooner Schooner, the University of Oklahoma’s iconic covered wagon mascot, is being driven by a Native American woman. Brianna Howard, a junior at OU and a citizen of the Choctaw Nation, first drove the Schooner onto the field during the football team’s season opener against Illinois…
The guys at the sheriff’s office call her a cool dude with long hair because, they say, she’s meaner than any of them — on the gun range and in the field. Her name is Lt. Dakota Black. She’s a trained tracker and detective with the Pottawatomie County Sheriff’s Office in Shawnee, Oklahoma. Lt. Dakota…
An Oklahoma death row inmate was hospitalized Thursday after being found unresponsive in his cell, officials said, just hours after being granted clemency on the same day he was scheduled to be executed. Forty-six-year-old Tremane Wood was granted clemency Thursday morning by Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt. After that decision came down, Wood met with his…
A death row inmate in Oklahoma was preparing for his scheduled execution Thursday when Gov. Kevin Sitt spared his life and announced his decision to commute Wood’s sentence from death to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Tremane Wood, 46, is the sixth condemned person to receive clemency in the state in the…
A chemical spill left dozens hospitalized and forced hundreds to evacuate from a western Oklahoma city on Wednesday night, according to local authorities and the CBS affiliate station KWTV. The incident occurred around 10 p.m. local time in Weatherford, Oklahoma, where a semi-truck began leaking ammonia, which is toxic, KWTV reported, citing officials. Southwest Oklahoma State…