Oklahoma City

Competition was held Monday night at the Oklahoma Buffalo Lounge at the South By Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas.

Web developers, entrepreneurs, filmmakers and bands hit South By Southwest’s annual Oklahoma interactive showcase this week

The Journal Record Building, largely empty since it was damaged by the 1995 Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building bombing, is set to be redeveloped later this year with completion possible by summer of 2015.

In a closely watched race for Oklahoma City mayor, incumbent Mick Cornett was reelected with 65.7 percent of the vote.

In booming Oklahoma City, a quest for restaurants giving warehouses, car dealerships and other old buildings a second life leads to an unexpected adventure in food, history and architecture.

Without the Metropolitan Area Projects, Oklahoma City would not have an NBA team, an Olympic training center, a canal through an entertainment district or a first-rate ballpark. And without those, the city probably would not have a standard of living sufficient to attract and hold a workforce for Devon, Chesapeake, Dell, Continental Resources, or any of the other companies whose payrolls and taxes have fueled the economic comeback.

Not every mention that Oklahoma City gets on every “Best of” list or “national” website deserves acknowledging, but five paragraphs of good news in a cover story in The Wall Street Journal is still worth repeating in the hometown paper.