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‘It’s just what the Cherokee Nation ought to do:’ tribe plans long-term investment in housing
October 01, 2024
The Cherokee Nation voted to permanently reauthorize its 2019 Housing, Jobs and Sustainable Communities Act, which helped fund 2,800 housing and community projects.
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Black farmers face specific, outsized challenges in rural mental health crisis
September 23, 2024
Farming is a demanding job saddled with stressors like increasingly unpredictable weather, rising input costs and changing commodity prices. On top of those issues, producers of color deal with the impacts of racism, which is linked to mental health conditions like depression and PTSD.
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Muscogee Nation pushes back against standard Oklahoma tribal boundary signs
September 06, 2024
The Oklahoma Department of Transportation (ODOT) is standardizing tribal boundary signs across the state, but not all Indigenous nations welcome this one-size-fits-all approach.
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As an Oklahoma hospital breaks ground, USDA looks to better health, high speed internet and housing
September 04, 2024
Leadership in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development office says a Tillman County hospital speaks to the larger focus on housing, health and high speed internet.
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Oklahoma experts hope research, goats will encourage climate-resiliency on farms
August 23, 2024
Experts are finding ways to encourage climate-resilient farming and living for producers.
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Oklahoma farmers will receive more than $100 million in compensation following discrimination
August 06, 2024
Hundreds of Oklahoma farmers and ranchers who faced discrimination in U.S. Department of Agriculture farm loan programs are getting more than $100.6 million in payments collectively.
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How one rural hospital hopes to be an oasis in Oklahoma’s maternity care desert
August 01, 2024
More than half of Oklahoma counties are maternity care deserts, which are predominantly rural areas without birthing facilities and providers.
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Oklahoma poll workers get their pay doubled
July 15, 2024
Oklahomans who volunteer to collect ballots and voting machines, set up polling stations, monitor them, and then deliver cast votes to their county election boards can earn up to $225 for a 12-hour shift.
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‘This is going to kill us’: Oklahoma nursing homes brace for new federal staffing mandate
July 11, 2024
Oklahoma nursing homes are preparing for staffing rules finalized in April by the Biden administration, meant to improve safety and quality of care in long-term care facilities.
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What do Oklahoma grocery shoppers think of buying bananas and bullets in the same trip?
July 10, 2024
KOSU went to Noble to talk to customers and hear what they think as the machines draw national headlines.
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Latest map shows drought is mostly gone from Oklahoma’s typically parched panhandle
July 01, 2024
A regional meteorologist with the National Weather Service said the area is usually looking for wetter weather but not in the way it fell this past week because of the flooding and water rescues that followed.
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Potawatomi Fire close out undefeated season with TBL crown
June 25, 2024
The Potawatomi Fire made history as the first two-time champions in the history of The Basketball League, sweeping the Saint Louis Griffins in a best-of-three series. KOSU first introduced you to the team in a 2022 RNN collaboration.
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Southwest Airlines flight drops unexpectedly low over Yukon, triggering safety warning
June 24, 2024
The flight, a Boeing 737-800, skimmed unexpectedly close to the ground over Yukon (pop. 25,500) – nine miles west of its intended destination at the Oklahoma City airport.
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Cherokee Nation recognizes first official Pride Month
June 13, 2024
The Cherokee Nation took another step toward 2SLGBTQ+ equity this week, as Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. declared the month of June as Pride Month.
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Ojibwe costume designer for ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ sues Apple Studios following racial discrimination complaint
May 28, 2024
On the heels of a previous dispute over racial discrimination, Kristi Marie Hoffman says she is not receiving proper recognition for her work as First Assistant Costume Designer on Killers of the Flower Moon.
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