News & Updates

On Tuesday, July 18, City Council approved a deal with Omni Hotels to develop a headquarters hotel that will support the MAPS 3 Convention Center.

Frontier Airlines will launch new low-fare service between Oklahoma City and three new cities starting this fall.

Oklahoma City is home to several thriving districts, and a new one is on the horizon.

Ten years ago the Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce saw a problem, that Oklahoma's most talented students took jobs out of state after graduation. So, the chamber started InternOKC, a program designed to entice them to stay.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Brittany Sanger left Oklahoma in search of job opportunities. She grew up in Edmond, where she knew others her age whose first inclination, like hers, was to leave the state.

“I just wanted to travel,” Sanger said. “I always wanted to move somewhere else after college.”

When she went to the University of Oklahoma she was pre-med but decided to switch to a culinary degree after interning at a seafood restaurant in Los Angeles.

OKLAHOMA CITY – City Hall’s new $1.41 million contract for jail services through the Oklahoma County Board of Commissioners is a significant savings compared with the previous fiscal year because of efforts to detain fewer people, officials said.

Have you heard about Folk Secrets? It’s a new interactive event in which Oklahoma residents are challenged to search for “treasure” using an augmented reality app and Facebook videos as a guide. The treasure in question? $1,000 and the opportunity to award $4,000 to the nonprofit organization of your choosing.