The 4th of July in Alva is packed with free family activities. The Little Red Hens have lots of games for all ages in ...

As a child I was lulled to sleep by the rattle of the water cooler on hot summer nights. It relied on a high volume of air, cooled by evaporation and blown through the house to escape through open ...

STEM Camp at Northwestern Oklahoma State University took place June 1-6 on the Alva campus, welcoming 29 high school students ...

As a wildfire began to sow panic in a small northern Idaho mountain community, a group of firefighters who rushed to put out the blaze instead found themselves in an unexpected shootout. A man who had ...

Kilmar Abrego Garcia will stay in jail for now over concerns from his lawyers that he could be deported if he's released to await his trial on human smuggling charges, a federal judge in Tennessee ...

Seventeen months after the groundbreaking, the Cory Washburn Family Memorial Swimming Pool was opened to the public in Alva ...

Dozens of staff members, two inmates and a bystander were among the casualties of Israel's attack last week on Tehran's Evin prison, a notorious facility where many political prisoners and dissidents ...

I have tried really hard to turn this column from mostly a political opinion page to something more substantial. When my time comes, I don’t want anyone wondering what my faith looked like. So, ...

Hours before a tumultuous nearing-midnight vote on President Donald Trump's package of tax breaks, spending cuts and increased deportation money, a Republican senator stood on the chamber floor and ...

I have no doubt we are all familiar with the old saying “to forgive and forget” as well as numerous Biblical teachings on forgiveness. I’ll be honest that there have been times in my life when I ...

Russia launched its biggest aerial attack against Ukraine overnight, a Ukrainian official said Sunday, part of an escalating bombing campaign that has further dashed hopes for a breakthrough in ...

In the time before widespread vaccination, death often came early. Devastating infectious diseases ran rampant in America, killing millions of children and leaving others with lifelong health problems ...