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Sheila Buck filed a civil rights lawsuit after her arrest outside the BOK Center before then-President Donald Trump’s June 2020 campaign rally.

City councilors have met three times in executive session — once last week and twice Wednesday — to discuss a proposed settlement of at least $1 million with Sheila Buck.

Voters in Tulsa this summer will decide the fate of a proposal to spend millions of dollars on street repairs, public safety equipment and neighborhood improvements.

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First Improve Our Tulsa public meeting puts focus on street work. Tulsans can now weigh in on Mayor G.T. Bynum’s ambitious renewal of Improve Our Tulsa.

Mayor Bynum and members of the Tulsa City Council announced hopes to renew the City of Tulsa’s next capital improvement package.  

Credit NIAID-RML Despite rapidly rising numbers of new COVID-19 infections, the City of Tulsa’s mitigation working group is not moving toward reimplementing a mask mandate. City Councilor Kara Joy McKee said there have been calls for that from the community. Right now, the city is going to focus on messaging and other actions that support the Tulsa Health Department’s work to to increase vaccination rates. Currently, 53% of county residents are fully vaccinated. "There was some real concer...

Members of the Tulsa City Council on Wednesday discussed possible actions they and the Tulsa Police Department can take to prevent or discourage illegal

An audio version of this story Amazon will build a sortation facility, shown in a rendering, at Mingo Road and 36th Street North. Amazon is building another large-scale facility in Tulsa. The company chose a 40-acre site at Mingo Road and 36th Street North for a 270,000-square foot sortation facility, the point between fulfillment centers and Amazon’s last-mile delivery stations. Mayor G.T. Bynum said the sortation center is a $32 million project, Amazon’s third large investment in Tulsa. "...

Tulsa city councilors are still mulling over updates to regulations on backyard chickens. In their latest round of proposed changes discussed last week, the minimum distance for a chicken coop to be from a residence is cut from 40 feet to 35. A significant portion of the city is zoned residential with lots a minimum of 60 feet wide. District 4 Councilor Kara Joy McKee said fresh eggs can make a big difference in some Tulsans’ diets. "And if we’re at 35 feet, that eliminates a lot of people ...