While Oklahoma’s higher education graduates used to flee the state in droves, today it’s almost completely the opposite, he said.

An operating partner for the first of Oklahoma City’s wellness centers under the MAPS 3 tax issue could be decided within the next two months, city officials said.

School board elections in February gave Oklahoma City Public Schools a new leader at the helm of the district school board. Board Chairwoman Lynne Hardin took time to answer questions from readers of The Oklahoman and NewsOK.com.

Who would have thought in 1990 that Tulsans would look with longing toward Oklahoma City for just about anything, much less its river? Two decades ago, the stream that cut across Oklahoma City was a river only in the academic sense. It needed mowing, to cite a cliché.

Construction is set to start this summer on a new Oklahoma City police headquarters and court complex, a project seen as a potential catalyst to redeveloping the west fringe of downtown.

The commercial real estate market in Oklahoma City and across the country is looking up as the economy improves, according to reports from the Commercial Real Estate Council’s annual Beyond the Headlines conference Thursday at the Devon Energy Center.

The district has gone from six businesses in 2007 to more than two dozen businesses this year, with more in the works.

The Oklahoma City commercial real estate scene has outpaced the national market in recent years.