Anna Pope

To learn more about how to add the languages to your own keyboard, visit KOSU.org. Oklahoma FFA members are celebrating a bevy of awards taken home at last week's National Convention and Expo.

KOSU's Anna Pope reports.

Oklahoma students had a strong showing at the national competition.

Dozens of students from Cherokee, Stillwater, Guthrie, Oologa, La Verne, North Rock Creek and Lomega earned 16 national awards.

And so to have that level of success and really just see those students consistently have their hard work pay off really means a lot.

He says students are already working on their projects for next year.

In Oklahoma City, I'm Anna Pope.

This time of year, wolves are synonymous with scary.

The Trump administration is overturning longstanding interpretations of how the Endangered Species Act operates.

Harvest Public Media's Anna Pope reports biologists worry it puts already vulnerable populations at risk.

The federal government is changing the definition of what it means to harm or take an animal under the law.

The changes remove habitat protections for species and narrows restrictions to only intentional killings or injury to an animal.

I think what a lot of Americans understand and what everybody needs to understand is that without habitat, there is no wildlife.

Groups from nearly two dozen states have sued the Trump administration over the definition's shift.

I'm Anna Pope, Harvest Public Media.

Iowa conservation groups are pushing lawmakers to enact a sales tax, raising over $200 million for natural resource projects.

Drought is receding in parts of Oklahoma after getting torrential rains this month.

KOSU's Anna Pope reports.

While drought is still here, but it's not as bad.

Drought has plagued most of Oklahoma for months and the toasty temperatures didn't help.

While Lakes Hefner, Lugar Altus, and Keystone gained multiple feet, in southeast Oklahoma, Broken Bow and Atoka are a foot below normal.

In the next week, there is not much rain expected except in the western panhandle.

In Oklahoma City, I'm Anna Pope.

The precipitation outlook from the National Weather Service shows above normal moisture is expected in the coming weeks.

Oklahomans are electing a new lieutenant governor in the midterm elections.

KOSU's Anna Pope reports both candidates are focusing on the state's economy.

The Oklahoma lieutenant governor has a handful of duties, including acting as governor when the actual governor leaves the state and serving as president of the state Senate.

Republican voters picked banker T.W. Shannon to be their nominee out of a crowded primary.

Forbes is an educator who has worked as a teacher, a school administrator, and an adjunct professor.

His priorities include building a stronger state economy, investing in public education, expanding health care access, and promoting tourism.

In Oklahoma City, I'm Anna Pope.

Organizers of the No Kings protests say they are focusing on getting out the vote.

For more election coverage, visit KOSU.org. Yukon residents are voting to keep or remove their mayor in next month's midterm election.

KOSU's Anna Pope reports the city's current mayor faces a rare recall election after people strongly criticized a data center project.

An initiative petition to recall UConn City Mayor Brian Pillmore was approved in August.

There are more than 25,000 residents and petitioners collected about 1,400 valid signatures.

If Phillips gets more votes than Pilmore, he will serve out the remainder of the term.

Under the city's charter, no recalled official can hold a government office or position within a year of removal.

In Oklahoma City, I'm Anna Pope.

Drought is making it difficult to grow hay for livestock in much of the central U.S. A lack of rainfall has affected farmers in major hay producing states like Oklahoma, Nebraska and Texas.

Medical marijuana packaging in Oklahoma is changing to make it less appealing to children.

KOSU's Anna Pope has more.

House Bill 4454 requires edible medical marijuana products to clearly mark the number of THC servings per package and the amount of THC in each serving.

It also states edible medical marijuana packaging can't be attractive to kids, including shapes of people, cartoons, animals, or bears that look like candy.

Industry advocates have said the law is hard to follow, and producers were not getting support from the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority to ensure compliance.

State officials say the agency's compliance inspection team is training ahead of the effective date to support fair statewide enforcement.

In Oklahoma City, I'm Anna Pope.

State lawmakers are examining pretrial detention practices as concerns grow over overcrowded jails and costly lawsuits.

Thousands of Oklahoma marijuana grows have shuttered as the industry has deflated in recent years.

Anna Pope reports state agencies are figuring out how to handle abandoned operations.

Oklahoma officials say there were about 8,400 licensed and registered marijuana grows in the state three years ago.

More than 7,000 of those are now closed.

Republican Senator Darcy Jech of Kingfisher proposed the study.

He's one of the lawmakers behind Oklahoma's current law requiring licensed growers to get a surety bond of at least $50,000 to cover cleanup if they eventually abandon the facility.

In Oklahoma City, I'm Anna Pope.

More than 90 federal lawsuits have been filed across Oklahoma against FedEx.