• RadioShack stores closing

    RadioShack stores closing - February 10, 2015

    RadioShack, which filed for bankruptcy protection last Thursday, will close many of its U.S. stores, including the Ponca City store. The consumer electronics chain was founded nearly a centur...

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  • Chamber Chat

    Chamber Chat - February 10, 2015

    Danielle Vap has started her employment with the Chamber as our membership coordinator. We are excited to have Danielle join our staff. Austin Unruh has been moved to Tourism Coordinator. I f...

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  • Mountain bike trail approved

    Mountain bike trail approved - February 10, 2015

    A license was approved Monday night between Ponca City and the Oklahoma Earthbike Fellowship for a mountain bike trail at Lake Ponca. City Park and Recreation Director Jim Sindelar presented the requ...

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  • City Commission approves parking ordinance

    City Commission approves parking ordinance - February 10, 2015

    The Ponca City Board of Commissioners approved a city ordinance Monday night regulating the parking of recreational and motor vehicles in the front yards of residences. The ordinance requires RVs and...

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  • Lawmakers consider nitrogen gas chamber

    Lawmakers consider nitrogen gas chamber - February 10, 2015

    OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - With executions in Oklahoma on hold amid a constitutional review of its lethal injection formula, Republican legislators are pushing to make Oklahoma the first state in the natio...

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  • Benge named Fallin’s Native American liaison

    Benge named Fallin’s Native American liaison - February 10, 2015

    OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Oklahoma Secretary of State Chris Benge has been named Gov. Mary Fallin's Native American liaison. Fallin made the appointment Monday in an executive order in which she establi...

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  • Two officers, woman injured

    Two officers, woman injured - February 10, 2015

    SULPHUR, Okla. (AP) - Authorities say two police officers and a female suspect have been wounded in a shootout after the woman barricaded herself for several hours inside a Sulphur business. The Okl...

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  • Spears School accepting nominations

    Spears School accepting nominations - February 10, 2015

    STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) - Oklahoma State University is accepting nominations for its annual Spears School of Business Hall of Fame and Outstanding Young Alumni Award. The Hall of Fame banquet in Novem...

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  • Trump to attend Oklahoma GOP conference

    Trump to attend Oklahoma GOP conference - February 10, 2015

    OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Real estate mogul and reality TV star Donald Trump is the latest high-profile Republican to confirm his plans to attend the Southern Republican Leadership Conference in Oklahoma C...

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  • Boy killed in explosion

    Boy killed in explosion - February 09, 2015

    MULDROW, Okla. (AP) - Authorities in eastern Oklahoma say an 8-year-old boy has died and a 22-year-old man has been injured after another man placed an explosive in a stove and shot it with a rifle. ...

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