• DxDT Friday!

    DxDT Friday! - June 23, 2015

    DxDT -- or Down by Downtown -- will start at 6 p.m. Friday between Fifth and Sixth Streets on Grand Avenue. The street will be filled with food vendors, bands and fun! DxDT is a project of the...

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  • City, Phillips 66 project also wins state award

    City, Phillips 66 project also wins state award - June 23, 2015

    The Ponca City-Phillips 66 Sanitary Sewer Rehabilitation Project also won the American Public Works State Project of the Year for Oklahoma. Mayor Homer Nicholson said the collaborative project was a...

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  • Ponca City, Phillips 66 honored for sewer replacement project

    Ponca City, Phillips 66 honored for sewer replacement project - June 23, 2015

    From left, city commissioners Ryan Austin and Nancy Rathbun; Water Distribution & Wastewater Collection Superintendent Darwin Haney; Bret Cabbiness of Cabbiness Engineering; Mayor Homer Nic...

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  • Fire Department responds to car fire

    Fire Department responds to car fire - June 23, 2015

    By Beverly Bryant/News Director The Ponca City Fire Department responded to a car fire about 9:15 a.m. Tuesday at a repair shop at First Street and Cleveland Avenue. An ambulance also stood by...

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  • Osage Casino blood drive this afternoon

    Osage Casino blood drive this afternoon - June 23, 2015

    The Osage Casino Hotel in Ponca City will hold a blood drive from 1 to 6 p.m. today for the American Red Cross. Guests who donate will receive $20 in free play, a hotel coozie and a free pass to Roc...

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  • No charges in attorney shooting of client

    No charges in attorney shooting of client - June 23, 2015

    OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Oklahoma City police do not plan to seek charges against an attorney who they say fatally shot his client in self-defense. Police spokeswoman Jennifer Wardlow said Monday that ...

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  • Former treasurer sentenced in FOP embezzlement

    Former treasurer sentenced in FOP embezzlement - June 23, 2015

    TULSA, Okla. (AP) - A former treasurer of the Fraternal Order of Police Oklahoma State Lodge and the Tulsa Fraternal Order of Police has been sentenced to nearly three years in federal prison for emb...

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  • School Board sets special meeting at noon Tuesday

    School Board sets special meeting at noon Tuesday - June 22, 2015

    The Ponca City Public Schools Board of Education will hold a special meeting at noon Tuesday to consider and vote on an agreement with SchoolSpring. SchoolSpring is a national PK-12 specific jo...

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  • Railroad project on U.S. 177 to start Wednesday

    Railroad project on U.S. 177 to start Wednesday - June 22, 2015

    Ted Zachary, an engineer with the Oklahoma Department of Transportation in Perry, said Monday that a planned project to work on the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway is expected to begin Wednesday...

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  • Woman faces manslaughter charge

    Woman faces manslaughter charge - June 22, 2015

    TULSA, Okla. (AP) - An Oklahoma woman is facing a manslaughter charge after police say she killed a man driving a 1920 Model A car. Forty-one-year-old Whitney Wheeler was being held at the Tulsa Cou...

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