The state's plan to lower health insurance premiums for more than 100,000 Oklahomans is now D.O. A. State health officials say the federal government failed to give the final approval on time. 

A state legislator is out, hopes for teacher raises are dying and a breakdown in communication over the state’s $900-million budget shortfall all are highlighted in this legislative week in review. 

A bill to take money away from counties and pour it into state coffers died in the state House of Representatives. 

The State House of Representatives Monday passed two bills that would allow Oklahomans to buy liquor two hours earlier six days a week, and to be able to buy it Sundays.

This week, state lawmakers advanced a bill to give teachers raises without a plan to pay for it, and they dipped into an account with no money in it, to fund DHS. 

More than a dozen blind Oklahomans held a protest at the steps of the state Capitol and stood against a set of bills they say unfairly target them.