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The health insurance marketplace opened Nov. 1 for Oklahomans to elect medical coverage for 2024.
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Gov. Kevin Stitt on Monday ceremonially signed a bill that updates the state’s 911 system in hopes of saving more lives.
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The Oklahoma City Zoo and Botanical Garden is hosting a holiday hippo jubilee with Oklahoma City native Gayla Peevey, who returns to the OKC Zoo for a special sing-along and 70th anniversary celebration of her beloved hit, “I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas”! This musical merry-making is happening on Thursday, November 9, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Zoo’s Love’s Pachyderm at Expedition Africa. This event is ideal for all ages and free with general Zoo admission.
Read moreThe Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma’s Food for Kids Match raised more than $1 million to fight childhood hunger in central and western Oklahoma.
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OU Health broke ground and kicked off a capital fundraising campaign Wednesday, Nov. 1, for a new pediatric Behavioral Health Center, an innovative facility where Oklahoma youth will receive the highest quality of treatment and support for mental and behavioral health conditions.
Read moreThe Not Invisible Act Commission, a cross jurisdictional advisory committee composed of law enforcement, Tribal leaders, federal partners, service providers, family members of missing and murdered individuals, and survivors, today transmitted its congressionally mandated recommendations to the Department of the Interior, Department of Justice and U.S. Congress. Federal responses to the Commission’s recommendations are due within 90 calendar days.
Read moreThe Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery and Smithsonian American Art Museum have jointly purchased the tour de force “Lessons of the Hour” (2019) by artist and filmmaker Sir Isaac Julien. The moving image installation interweaves period reenactments across five screens to create a vivid picture of 19th-century activist, writer, orator and philosopher Frederick Douglass (1818–1895). Through critical research, fictional reconstruction and a marriage of poetic image and sound, Julien asserts Douglass’ enduring lessons of justice, abolition and freedom that remain just as relevant today.
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