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Norman voters will vote on a potential 3 percent hotel room tax increase on May 9.

Voters will decide Tuesday if the city gets to raise its hotel tax rate from 5% to 8% to boost funding for arts, parks and recreation, and the formation of

To begin with, the Hotels and Motels are for increasing the Hotel/Motel tax. After that, what else do we really need to know?

The Oklahoma Department of Transportation has awarded the city of Norman more than $2.1 million to continue the community’s construction of traffic-free pathways for bicyclists and pedestrians.

Spurred by a refreshing, renewed collaboration between the City of Norman and OU that he has not seen before during his 30 years in town, Norman Chamber of Commerce President

A potential hotel and motel guest tax increase would go toward funding a Norman Sports Commission, VisitNorman’s leader said Wednesday at the monthly meeting of the visitors bureau and convention

The Norman City Council this week set an election for May 9 to increase the hotel tax rate from 5% to 8%, but some residents pushed back on the idea.

Norman City Council discussed uses for Home-American Rescue Plan Act funds, swore in Ward 1 Councilmember Austin Ball, appointed a resident ad hoc committee for its partnership with Strong Towns

The chief goal of the Oklahoma Film and Music Office is to see that cities in all 77 counties in the state receive a “film friendly” designation, and Norman hopes

City officials hope voters will approve a rate hike that would nearly double the current tax on Norman hotel and motel rooms as early as May.