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Alva Church of God Sunday school begins at 9:30 a.m. and worship at 10:30 a.m. with Pastor Nathan Braudrick. Alva Church of God is located at 517 Ninth St. in Alva and can be found on the web at www.AlvaChurchOfGod.org. Sunday: Sunday school is at...

Second Chronicles continues the history of the kings of Judah. It begins with Solomon and details the building and dedication of the temple. Solomon’s wisdom was known throughout the world, the Queen of Sheba came just to see if the stories about h...

Fine artists, crafters and bakers/sugar artists are welcome to register for the 51st Nescatunga Arts Festival in Alva, set for Saturday, Nov. 6, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Woods County Fairgrounds. New to the event this year is the Nescatunga... Full story

Local blood drives will be held in the Alva community during the month of August. Locations are as follows: • Alva community – Extreme, Aug. 6, noon to 6 p.m. • Alva First United Methodist Church – Bloodmobile, Aug. 10, 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. • Value Add...

Events have been set for Northwestern Oklahoma State University’s annual homecoming celebration Oct. 7-9, and the organizing committee looks forward to seeing many familiar, and some new, faces in Alva. The Northwestern Homecoming Committee selected...

A Waynoka man is in critical condition following a motorcycle wreck on Wednesday. Clinton Dewayne Medlan, 61, of Waynoka, was transported by Air Evac from the scene to OU Medical Center in Oklahoma City. He was admitted for head and trunk internal...

Alva, Okla. – Northwestern Oklahoma State Men's Golf team released their 2021 fall schedule this week. The team will participate in four total matches this fall, ending with Northwestern hosting their Ranger Invite. "We have a few new faces coming i...

Alva, Oklahoma – The Great American Conference has announced their 2020-2021 conference All-Academic Team. Northwestern Oklahoma State University was well represented, with 106 student-athletes on the team. The conference set a record for 1270 t...

Alva, Okla. – Northwestern Oklahoma State Women's Golf team released their 2021 fall schedule this week. The team will participate in four total events this fall, ending with Northwestern hosting their Ranger Invite. "This group of ladies, r...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearing decision time, senators struggled late Thursday to wrap up work on the bipartisan infrastructure plan despite hopes to expedite consideration and voting on the nearly $1 trillion proposal. The package had appeared on t...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite an uptick in COVID-19 cases and a shortage of available workers, the U.S. economy likely enjoyed a burst of job growth last month as it bounced back with surprising vigor from last year's coronavirus shutdown. The Labor D...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — It didn't take much for the White House to set Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis off. As coronavirus cases rise across the Sun Belt, President Joe Biden asked GOP governors to "get out of the way" of efforts to contain the virus. D...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma death row inmate whose legal challenge led to a historic U.S. Supreme Court ruling on tribal sovereignty has been convicted of murder and kidnapping in federal court. A federal jury in Muskogee on Thursday found P...

Steve Sarkisian has yet to make his debut in the Big 12, but the new Texas coach was asked to ponder life in the Southeastern Conference. So was Oklahoma's Lincoln Riley, who — like Sarkisian — would much prefer to look ahead to this season. Tex...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The state Supreme Court on Friday upheld the convictions of a northeast Kansas woman serving a "Hard 50" prison sentence for shooting the father of her child six times and setting his body on fire in his mother's home. The c...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas county in the Kansas City area is requiring most residents to wear masks in indoor public spaces and on public transportation because of the spread of the more contagious COVID-19 delta variant. The county c...

SAO CAETANO DO SUL, Brazil (AP) — No matter how much 9-year-old Brazilian Nicole Amaro pleaded with her dad to let her skateboard, Deivison wasn't swayed. He was afraid she'd get hurt, and held his ground. Then, when things seemed hopeless, the i...

GREENVILLE, Calif. (AP) — A Northern California wildfire that is now the third-largest in state history had burned for weeks, mostly in remote wildland areas with few people, before it roared through the little mountain community of Greenville, d...

MCDONOUGH, Ga. (AP) — As Tussahaw Elementary opened this week for a new school year, teary-eyed mothers led in kindergartners dwarfed by backpacks and buses dropped off fifth graders looking forward to ruling their school. The biggest clue to the l...