The Alva City Council decided Monday that they’ll move toward only one meeting per month. The change won’t be official until City Attorney Rick Cunningham draws up the new ordinance and the council votes to pass it. After that the council will mee...

Northwestern Oklahoma State and Director of Athletics Brad Franz are pleased to announce the hiring of Jeremy White as the next head coach of the Lady Rangers volleyball team. “I am very pleased to have Jeremy White join our staff as head v...

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

William Harvey “Bill” Nighswonger passed away Dec 2, 2016, in Selah, Washington. He was born March 24. 1930, the child of Harvey Pinkerton “Pink” and Cora Demler Nighswonger, on his parents' Woods County farm, 14 miles northwest of Alva. He attended...

The Woods County 4-H Shooting Sports Club hosted a regional contest on Saturday, Dec. 17. Forty-five contestants from nine Northwest Oklahoma counties (Guthrie to Guymon) attended the event. Archery categories included compound bow, genesis bow, and...

Only two more shopping days ‘til Christmas! Remember to visit your local small businesses as you make your last-minute selections. I wonder what Joseph and Mary might have been thinking two days before the birth of our Savior. Whether you place h...

How long ago was the Alva Middle School gymnasium built? It was years ago. Have you ever wondered why it was so difficult to get up the bleachers to watch your grandkids playing basketball? The getting up wasn't any harder or scarier than getting...

STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) — Phil Forte found his shooting stroke right before Oklahoma State opens Big 12 play. The senior guard scored 19 points to help Oklahoma State defeat Texas A&M-Corpus-Christi 92-70 on Thursday afternoon. Forte, one of the t...

UNCASVILLE, Conn. (AP) — T.J. Dunans celebrated his 24th birthday Wednesday by scoring a career-high 21 points to lead Auburn over Oklahoma in the Basketball Hall of Fame's Birth of Basketball showcase. Jared Harper also had 21 points for the T...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Mikayla Pivec had seven of her 17 points in the fourth quarter when Oregon State pulled away and the Beavers beat previously unbeaten Oklahoma State 73-54 in the Play 4 Kay Shootout championship game on Wednesday night. Sydney W...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Maddie Manning scored 17 points with three 3-pointers and a career-high 10 steals and No. 20 Oklahoma overcame poor first-half shooting to rally for a 74-60 win over Portland State on Wednesday night at the Puerto Rico Classic. T...

Former Oklahoma coach Barry Switzer figured when he told reporters he was going to be the Secretary of Offense for Donald Trump he assumed they knew he was joking about meeting the president-elect. "I think they need to learn the cabinet positions,"...

We watch sports to see who wins and loses, but also to be inspired — and 2016 offered plenty of examples of the latter, from a touching moment between two strangers on the Olympic track, to a little boy from a war-torn land who met his favorite s...

FORT SMITH, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas authorities say an Oklahoma woman was killed after crashing her car in Fort Smith after a police pursuit that began in eastern Oklahoma. Fort Smith police say the pursuit began in Roland, Oklahoma, after an officer c...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A 31-year-old Tulsa man has been arrested on a hate crime charge in connection to an assault on a Hispanic man that involved racial and homophobic slurs. The Tulsa World (http://bit.ly/2h75mGe ) reports Joshua Price was a...

MCALESTER, Okla. (AP) — A suspended Wagoner County sheriff charged with bribery and extortion is asking a judge to dismiss a grand jury's decision to seek his removal from office. The grand jury said Sheriff Bob Colbert and former Capt. Jeff Gragg r...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma liquor retailers are challenging sweeping voter-approved guidelines that expand wine and strong beer sales to grocery and convenience stores but remain puzzled about how their businesses will fit into the new r...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Police in Tulsa say a man wanted for questioning about the disappearance more than a month ago of his girlfriend apparently shot himself to death as officers forced their way into his home. Sgt. Dave Walker told reporters o...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma State Department of Health is reporting the state's first flu death of the season. The department said Thursday that a Johnston County resident died of influenza during the weekly reporting period that ended T...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A former attorney in Oklahoma City has been sentenced to 14 years in federal prison after he admitted traveling to South America to have sex with an underage girl. Federal prosecutors say 61-year-old Michael Dean Billings was s...