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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 concern from some members of the working group that though masks work and we want everyone to properly wea...

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. "We’ve gone in a five-year period of time from being a city with no Amazon presence other than the ...

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 from being allowed to have chickens, but a 25-foot limit, I think, could really — it’ll be safe,...