Northwestern Oklahoma State University Vice President of Athletics Brad Franz has announced the hiring of Jerry Partridge as ...

The teachers at Alva Middle School have selected Evan Ward and Koda León, eighth grade; Anna Kelly and Blayr Corder, seventh ...

"It was the shock of my life," lifelong Hardtner Wes King said. He was referring to what he'd been told was a farm/firefighters appreciation dinner. Not realizing it was a celebration about his over ...

National Guard troops went door-to-door early Friday to evacuate a farming city north of Seattle as severe flooding throughout western Washington stranded families on rooftops, washed over bridges and ...

Terry Ewing, 81, of Alva, Oklahoma, passed away on December 4, 2025, in Kiowa, Kansas. He was born on May 16, 1944, in ...

The Woods County Senior Citizen Center in Alva is preparing to move into their new location, hopefully at the end of this year. At the beginning of November, they appealed to the public for donations ...

It is a wonderful time of year, and there are many exciting things happening across Senate District 19. First and foremost, the Medford Cardinals secured their spot in the Class C football state ...

The Alva Parks and Recreation Board will have to wait to get a clearer picture of finances. At the regular board meeting Wednesday, Finance Director Sadie Bier and Kelly Parker, who is assisting with ...

The Justice Department asked an appeals court Friday to block a contempt investigation of the Trump administration for failing to turn around planes carrying Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador in ...

More drops for superstar artificial-intelligence stocks knocked Wall Street off its record heights on Friday. The S&P 500 fell 1.1% from its all-time high for its worst day in three weeks. The ...

Hanukkah — also spelled Chanukah or other transliterations from Hebrew — is Judaism's "festival of lights." On eight consecutive nightfalls, Jews gather with family and friends to light one additional ...

I was right about one thing in my last newspaper column. I said there would be those who would say the dollar amounts and programs specified for certain types of foreign aid being discussed were false ...