The Cherokee Nation is donating $455,000 to firefighters in 130 volunteer and rural departments throughout northeastern Oklahoma. The Tahlequah-based tribe plans to present the money at a ceremony honoring more than 500…

The Kansas Legislature is out of session until June 1, and its leaders hope lawmakers have finished their business for the year. The House adjourned shortly after 1 a.m. Monday, and the Senate followed at about 3:30 a.m….

The Missouri House has passed a bill to bar cities, counties and law enforcement agencies from setting traffic-ticket quotas.

National Weather Service branches in Wichita and Tulsa, Oklahoma, are re-enacting a deadly 1991 tornado outbreak on social media a week after the threat of nasty weather forced them to postpone a similar exercise.

Ted Cruz on Monday found himself locked in a heated exchange with ardent Donald Trump supporters lasting more than six minutes.

It was a strange alliance that had an aroma of ‘desperate’ written on it, according to many observers, and looked like a strategic “Hail Mary pass” by a #NeverTrump movement losing more and more steam by the week.

A former McAlester Public Schools superintendent and her husband have been charged with embezzlement.

LA PORTE, Ind. — Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has a way of handling hecklers. When they walked onstage behind him at a New Hampshire rally, he joked that they’d overshot the Bernie Sanders rally. After scuffles broke out at a canceled Donald Trump rally in Chicago, Cruz said that the protesters being handled at his events had rights and did not need to worry about violence.But the scene at a “rally for America” here Sunday night, organized by the pro-Cruz Keep the Promise […]

It looks like many predictions indicate a week in which the party frontrunners — Donald J. Trump and Hillary Rodham Clinton — will have an intraparty celebration as they turn an eye towards one another and the general election in November. After being outpaced in fundraising by Clinton in April, Bernie Sanders is now at 2% in prediction markets to win the party nomination and thus is campaigning only for more bargaining power within the Democratic Party.

The winding and hilly roads, old homes and businesses and a slower pace — the lure of America’s past drew enthusiasts from across the nation to celebrate the Jefferson Highway in Carthage this weekend.