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The Alva Tourism Tax Committee met Wednesday, Sept. 20. Chairman Melinda Barton opened the meeting with members Scott Kline, Terri Parsons and Angelica Brady present. Sadie Bier was absent. The last meeting was held in July because no event... Full story

Alva High School will celebrate their fall homecoming this week beginning on Monday. The theme for the week is Welcome to the Jungle. Part of the celebration is the 100th year of the Goldbug as the school’s mascot. T-shirts will be on sale... Full story

The Alva City Council meeting Monday, Sept. 18, lasted around two and one-half hours. The longest discussion concerned Resolution 2023-019 for the issuance and sale of promissory note by the Alva Utility Authority to the Oklahoma Water Resources... Full story

For a second time, the Alva City Council tabled discussion and action to modify the tourism tax ordinance. The modification is needed to allow the Oklahoma Tax Commission (OTC) to collect the five percent excise tax instead of that duty falling on... Full story

The Woods County Economic Development Committee (WCEDC) met Wednesday, Sept. 20, for their quarterly meeting. September marks the beginning of the WCEDC fiscal year. WCEDC Director Jeremy Zeller reported the year ended with a little over $1,000...

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (AP) — It's a Monday in September, but with schools closed, the three children in the Pruente household have nowhere to be. Callahan, 13, contorts herself into a backbend as 7-year-old Hudson fiddles with a balloon and...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A white Texas gunman who killed 23 people at a Walmart in 2019 after ranting about Hispanics taking over the government and economy has agreed to pay more than $5 million to victims of the racist attack, according to an order...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal judge has ordered the Interior Department to expand next week's scheduled sale of of Gulf of Mexico oil and gas leases by millions of acres, rejecting a scaled-back plan announced last month by the Biden...

AMERICUS, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas school district plans to offer anti-discrimination training to staff and teachers in response to complaints about how an eighth-grade student was treated after she said she was a lesbian. North Lyon County officials...

ALVA – Truth be told, Jacob Haren wasn’t satisfied with his performance this past weekend at the Colby (Kansas) Community College rodeo. Sure, he won the all-around title and led the way for the Northwestern Oklahoma State University rodeo team...

The Afghan man speaks only Farsi, but he wasn't worried about representing himself in U.S. immigration court. He believed the details of his asylum claim spoke for themselves. Mohammad was a university professor, teaching human rights courses in...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Last year's spike in inflation, to the highest level in four decades, was painful enough for American households. Yet the cure — much higher interest rates, to cool spending and hiring — was expected to bring even more pain....

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Tensions between Serbia and Kosovo flared anew over the weekend when some 30 heavily armed Serbs barricaded themselves in an Orthodox monastery in northern Kosovo, setting off a daylong gunbattle with police that left one...