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TAHLEQUAH, Okla. (AP) — Magic has happened this summer on a former cattle ranch that for 19 years has been home to one of Oklahoma's largest, but lesser-known, nature preserves. Following one of the wettest spring seasons on record, the 1... Full story

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Archie Bradley is making a call from the bullpen to see if hunters might like to join him in a dugout in Oklahoma. Or more accurately, in a duck blind. The former Broken Arrow baseball and football s...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Just because you invite a rattlesnake to enjoy the warmth of your living room, that doesn't mean it won't try to bite you, especially if it's a big, tough western diamondback as pugnacious as one nicknamed "Samson." "When we were...

JENKS, Okla. (AP) — Jenks High School student Jackson Cropper saw something he had never seen before, but it had a little more meaning than it might have before he made a new prize-winning documentary. He was walking to a friend's house and a man d...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — It's a cloudy, misty Sunday morning in January and Scott Hood called his catch as the fly fisherman stood in the clear, gently flowing water of the Lower Illinois River near Gore. "Always cast to a rising fish," he said, as his l...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — On a cloudy, misty day the view from the top of the Fisher Chat Pile, which towers some 150 to 200 feet above the ghost town of Picher, offers a scope and feel that fits the seemingly never-ending 40-square-mile cleanup project a...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — On a cloudy, misty day the view from the top of the Fisher Chat Pile, which towers some 150 to 200 feet above the ghost town of Picher, offers a scope and feel that fits the seemingly never-ending 40-square-mile cleanup project a...

WOODWARD, Okla. (AP) — Her story wasn't so much about the calf that was saved, but the tree that was lost. After learning some details about a 350-mile power line planned to connect the massive Wind Catcher wind farm in the Panhandle to a s...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — The roar of a propane tank and the clang of cold steel hammering hot red stock echoed down an otherwise quiet small-town street. It was the sound of Norman "Buddy" Thomas at his anvil forging another creation. What started as a b...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Three inches of fish flesh, no more than two eyes and a wiggle on the end of a fishing line holds a world of emotion for a child, especially Sterling Snider. He calls fish "bah-pay!" and he says it with gusto. No one knows w...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Austin Wilkes dropped two hooks on the meeting room table upstairs at Bass Pro Shops on Thursday evening — one for himself, one for his student. Roles and ages were reversed here. Wilkes, a college student, was teaching fly...

PRAGUE, Okla. (AP) — Flathead catfish are the hardheaded, whiskered, muscle-bound, slick rulers of their watery domain, but one young Oklahoma family grows and thrives on showing Mr. Whiskers who really is the boss. Nathan Williams, 30, and his boys...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Who knew a work center for heavy maintenance on aircraft could go gaga for a flower garden highlighted by a lot of weeds. Just call it an industrial butterfly flower garden. The Tulsa World (http://bit.ly/2rSq9mi ) reports that A...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Everyone knows that fish like schools, and it turns out that some schools — especially community colleges — like fish, too. An eight-hour course titled Crappie and Catfish Go To College is offered Tuesday and Thursday eveni...