Crude oil prices finished up as did Oklahoma energy stocks with one firm recording a 12% gain for the day’s trading. Prices of crude went up because of the growing tensions and worries about the U.S. response to the deaths of three American soldiers killed in Jordan. US benchmark, West Texas Intermediate crude …
A close call for passengers on board Amtrak’s California Zephyr as it rolled along in northern Colorado Monday night. The train, filled with 69 passengers, hit a milk truck that was on the tracks about 35 miles northeast of Denver near the town of Keenesburg and some of the cars decoupled. One Amtrak worker …
(KOCO TV) An auto collision center was destroyed by fire early Tuesday morning along I-35 in Oklahoma City but not before it posed a potential disaster for firefighters. Nearly 300 gallons of fuel stored inside the structure on I-35 Service Road near Southeast 59th Street prevented firefighters from entering the burning building. It created …
The number of passengers that flew in and out of Oklahoma City’s Will Rogers World Airport last year grew by 11% over 2022. Oklahoma City reported the 2023 passenger use totaled 4,400,049, an increase over the 3,951,333 passengers who used the airport in the prevous year. But, it wasn’t a record. The numbers came …
The Oklahoma Mesonet reports temperatures across the state on Monday were at their highest for the year. Climatologist Gary McManus says the statewide average high was 69.2 degrees, highest of the month and a year….plus “a massive jump from the 8.9F we suffered through back on Jan. 14.” He also said it was the warmest …
The Washington Post joined Oklahoma’s congressional delegation in heaping criticism on President Biden for his decision last week to delay major natural gas projects that would lead to LNG shipments to European countries. “It’s an election-year sop to climate activists that will do much more to unsettle vital U.S. alliances than to save the …
The Bureau of Land Management carried out a move last month in New Mexico that left conservationists and environmentalists puzzled. The BLM abandoned work on a resource management plan in northwestern New Mexico’s historic Chaco region. The agency indicated that work on an update to the district’s Resource Management Plans had been scrapped …
Williams Cos. in Tulsa is continuing its historic run of dividends paid to shareholders since 1974. The company’s board of directors announced this week it approved a regular dividend of $0.4750 per share, or $1.90 annualized, on the company’s common stock, payable on March 25, 2024, to holders of record at the close …
Oklahoma U.S. Sen. James Lankford is said to have led the congressional delegation in urging the Federal Aviation Administration to do all it can to maximize its air traffic ccontroller training at Oklahoma City’s Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center. “We urge you to maximize the training capacity at MMAC as a tool to address the …
A report states that Texas broke a record for the amount of electrical power produced through solar generation. It was on Sunday when more than one third of the electricity on the state’s power grid came from the sun and experts indicated they believe it won’t be long before another solar generation record …
