OKLAHOMA CITY – Legislation to address the issue of unsolved cases of missing and murdered Native American people has been approved unanimously by the full Senate. Sen. Paul Rosino, R-Oklahoma City, is the principal author of Senate Bill 172, known as Ida’s Law.

The measure is named for 29-year-old Ida Beard from El Reno. A citizen of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, she went missing in 2015 and has never been found.

LaRenda Morgan, Beard’s cousin, helped craft the legislation.

The Canadian and Woodward County OSU Cooperative Extension Centers will jointly host the What’s Up With Wheat meeting on March 10 from noon to 1 p.m., with Josh Bushong, West District OSU agronomist as the guest speaker.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Low-interest federal disaster loans are now available to Oklahoma businesses and residents as a result of President Biden’s major disaster declaration, U.S. Small Business Administration Acting Administrator Tami L. Perriello announced.

The declaration covers Canadian, Carter, Cherokee, Comanche, Cotton, Hughes, Jefferson, Le Flore, McIntosh, Oklahoma, Okmulgee, Osage, Pittsburg, Stephens, Tulsa and Wagoner counties as a result of the severe winter storms that occurred Feb. 8-20, 2021.

Friday, March 12 is the last day to apply for voter registration in order to be eligible to vote in the April 6 election.