Oklahoma City

City leaders and animal welfare staff recently broke ground on a new 70,000-square-foot, world-class animal welfare center.

The Oklahoma City Minor League Baseball team is approaching its 27th year at the Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark.

Oklahoma City officially opened the OKANA Resort and Indoor Waterpark with a ribbon-cutting ceremony, marking a major milestone for the city’s tourism industry and the Chickasaw Nation’s economic development efforts. The $400 million development in the Horizons District, next to the First Americans Museum (FAM), is the largest commercial investment in Oklahoma City history.

Frontier Airlines will begin nonstop flights from OKC Will Rogers International Airport (WRIA) to Orlando (MCO) on March 7. The airline will operate flights twice daily.

In December, the Oklahoma City MSA unemployment rate held steady at 2.8%, unchanged from November. The metro has now experienced 41 consecutive months with an unemployment rate below 4%, 

Oklahoma City is holding steady as the most affordable large city in the U.S., according to the 2024 annual Cost of Living Index (COLI) from the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER).