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Tulsa led the month's starts with 37, followed by Broken Arrow with 37, unincorporated Wagoner County with 31, and Bixby and unincorporated Rogers County, both with 22.
Dozens of prime Oklahoma hunting opportunities await — all you need is an Oklahoma hunting license, a $5 bill, a computer and a little luck.
North Carolina regulators have cited five more Duke Energy power plants for lacking required storm water permits after a massive spill at one of the company's coal ash dumps coated 70 miles of the Dan River in toxic sludge.
Under pressure from the wind-power industry, the Obama administration said Friday that it will allow companies to kill or injure eagles without the fear of prosecution for up to three decades.
The average number of days it takes to get a building permit in the city of Tulsa for a big project has increased by about 22 percent compared to two years ago, records show.
Rebuilding in Moore supplied the standout stats in the Oklahoma City metro-area housing again in October as the market
and the community as a whole
continued to recover from the May tornadoes.
Officials in Moore issued a slew of new building permits in recent weeks, as residents seek to rebuild from the deadly May 20 tornado that devastated the community.
Public comments: Councilors are considering changing their rules for receiving public comments at City Council meetings.
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VERMILION CLIFFS NATIONAL MONUMENT, Ariz. - Small wooden balls click rapidly in a whirling bingo basket as 78 hikers wait to see if their numbers will roll out to win one of 10 permits to visit a rock formation known as The Wave.
Last year, an elderly Sapulpa woman went to a city council committee meeting, sack full of firework debris in hand, and said she was scared to death after fireworks landed on her roof during the city's Fourth of July festivities.
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A bill that would create the first oral surgery dental assistant permit in the country and require all dental assistants to have permits is awaiting the governor's signature.
U.S. builders started more houses and apartments in February, while requesting permits for future construction at the fastest pace in 4 1/2 years. The increases point to a housing recovery that is gaining strength.
Amid highly publicized mass shootings, talk of the end of days and a presidential election, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation issued 39,875 concealed-carry permits last year, the highest total ever recorded in the state.
U.S. builders broke ground on slightly fewer homes in July than June. But in a hopeful sign for future construction, applications for building permits rose to their highest level since August 2008.
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GRAND LAKE, skeet shooting, bowhunter education and deer hunting permits are on the docket today. Let's get to it.
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As Oklahomans prepare for a holiday of booming fireworks and family get-togethers, local police and fire departments are preparing for long days filled with numerous phone calls.
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Marco Rubio is everywhere. With a couple of exceptions, it's hard to think of an elected official today who is more talked about, generates more headlines, or more thoroughly captures the imagination.
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U.S. builders started work on more single-family homes in May and requested the most permits to build homes and apartments in 3 1/2 years. The increase suggests the housing market is slowly recovering even as other areas of the economy have weakened.
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A measure of future U.S. economic activity fell in April after six months of increases. The drop reflected fewer requests for building permits and a temporary spike in applications for unemployment benefits.
U.S. builders requested the most permits in March for single-family homes and apartments in 3 1/2 years, suggesting that many expect the housing market to improve over the next year.
The number of permits filed to construct single-family homes in the city of Tulsa fell nearly 62 percent between January 2007 and mid-December 2011, a Tulsa World analysis shows.
The federal government built Memorial Acres with the precision of Arlington Cemetery: row after row of identical white trailers, evenly spaced and perfectly aligned, not one blade of grass out of place.
A surge in apartment construction gave home builders more work in November. And permits, a gauge of future construction, rose largely because of a jump in apartment permits.