Amazon EVs join delivery fleet

Amazon introduced its electric vans to Tulsa two years ago and now has a fleet of at least three dozen of the vehicles that have been delivering packages – quietly – in Oklahoma City since December.

Customers in other states also complaining about utility rates

Utility customers in other states also are grousing about their utility bills. Illinois Gov. J.B.

Legislation would affect utility bills

OKLAHOMA CITY — A couple of measures that could conceivably result in even higher utility bills for Oklahoma residents and businesses are progressing through the Legislature.

Customers across U.S. griping about public utility price increases

OKLAHOMA CITY — Public utilities’ customers in Oklahoma and several other states are roundly criticizing electricity and natural-gas providers for repeated price hikes over the past two years. Two state regulators and leaders of the Oklahoma Legislature have waded into the fray.

Addressing Oklahoma’s child care needs

By Jennifer Ellis    There’s a child care crunch in Oklahoma, and working families are struggling because of it.  Two bills in the state Legislature aim to get more children in public pre-Ks and provide an oasis for Oklahoma’s child care desert so more parents can return to the workforce.

Eastern Oklahoma sees some drought relief

Eastern Oklahoma received more rain between March 6 and 12, while the western part of the state was still experiencing dry conditions.  Rainfall totals in Oklahoma averaged 0.80 of an inch, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service. The March 7 U.S.

AG Drummond requests investigative audit of Turnpike Authority

OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond requested an investigative audit of the state’s Turnpike Authority last Wednesday.  Drummond, elected attorney general last fall, made the request in a letter to State Auditor and Inspector Cindy Byrd.