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Highway 169 on-ramp to close at 76th St. in Owasso
OWASSO, Okla. — The southbound Highway 169 on-ramp at 76th Street North in Owasso will close until 5 p.m. on Friday as part of the highway widening project. The Oklahoma Department of Transportation will close the ramp at 9 a.m. on Monday. The closure will coincide with ODOT's ongoing...
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Highway 169 on-ramp to close at 76th St. in Owasso
OWASSO, Okla. — The southbound Highway 169 on-ramp at 76th Street North in Owasso will close until 5 p.m. on Friday as part of the highway widening project. The Oklahoma Department of Transportation will close the ramp at 9 a.m. on Monday. The closure will coincide with ODOT’s ongoing...
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Elm Street widening project in Jenks shifting traffic to asphalt lanes
JENKS, Okla. — Starting Saturday, all traffic will be switched to asphalt lanes from gravel lanes on Elm Street in Jenks. The switch will begin between 8 and 9 a.m. and will remain for the next 3-4 months. The traffic shift will allow crews to continue widening the east...
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Gas prices jump roughly 20-cents per gallon in Tulsa metro
TULSA, Okla. — Gasoline prices keep creeping up in Tulsa, getting closer to $4 per gallon. The price for regular unleaded at most Quik Trip and Maverik stations jumped to $3.89 a gallon, up 20 cents between Wednesday and Thursday. That’s also up 54 cents from just a couple...
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New study ranks Tulsa intersections with the highest crash totals
TULSA, Okla. — The average person makes thousands of decisions per day, but safety data from OSHA showed that behind the wheel, drivers make over 200 decisions for every single mile traveled. A new study from the Gorospe Law Group analyzed five years of city data from 2017 to...
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Will Rogers Turnpike reopens near Claremore after dump truck hits bridge
CLAREMORE, Okla. - Eastbound lanes of the Will Rogers Turnpike are back open near State Highway 20 in Claremore after a dump truck struck an overpass Wednesday morning. According to the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority, the crash happened near mile marker 252 when a dump truck with its bed raised hit the County Road 4150 overpass.
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A Gas Station in Oklahoma that Became a Longtime Fixture on Route 66
US Route 66 (US 66), known far and wide today as simply Route 66, was one of the original routes of the United States Numbered Highway System to be approved by the American Association of State Highway Officials (AASHO) in 1926 and formally authorized and announced by the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads early the following year. One of the states through which Route 66 originally coursed was Oklahoma, and a still-intact structure along that section of the route has become emblematic of the now-iconic highway.
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Jenks road project on Elm delayed by underground utilities, poor weather, according to city
JENKS, Okla. - Update from City of Jenks 7/23/2026. Drivers traveling through the Elm Street construction zone in Jenks will be moved off the temporary gravel shoo-fly and onto asphalt lanes beginning Saturday morning as work continues on the city’s widening project. City officials said the traffic switch is...
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Tulsans see 34-cent uptick in fuel prices within a week
TULSA, Okla. - Gas prices in Tulsa are up 34 cents on average from where they were just a week ago, and drivers are feeling the pinch across the state. While Oklahoma continues to have some of the lowest gas prices in the country, it doesn’t make the expense any easier for drivers. GasBuddy points to the war with Iran and Russia’s war with Ukraine.
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Cost of repairs considered for Tulsa Route 66 monuments after theft, car crashes
TULSA, Okla. - The City of Tulsa budgeted $100,000 for maintenance specifically on Route 66 branded infrastructure this year, but the first-ever dedicated appropriation likely won’t match the need, which is growing by the day. Last weekend, the “East Meets West” sculpture at the Cyrus Avery Plaza was vandalized,...
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Gilcrease Interchange Dedicated to Guy L. Berry III
At a ceremony overlooking the completed U.S. 412 and Gilcrease Expressway interchange, Oklahoma transportation chief Tim Gatz hailed Guy L. Berry III as a visionary who “did the impossible” in closing critical gaps in the state’s highway system. Gatz said the newly dedicated interchange stands as a testament to Berry’s decades of work improving infrastructure for Sapulpa, Sand Springs, Tulsa and communities across Oklahoma.
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Highway 169 back open after screws and bolts spill on roadway
TULSA, Okla. - Traffic has reopened on southbound Highway 169 near the Broken Arrow Expressway after a crash on Tuesday morning scattered screws and bolts across multiple lanes, briefly forcing lane closures while crews cleared the roadway. Tulsa Police said a Chevrolet Silverado struck the rear of a Hyundai Sonata...
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Broken Arrow explains 17 mph speed limit signs in construction zone
BROKEN ARROW, Okla. - The City of Broken Arrow is addressing questions about 17 mph speed limit signs posted in a construction zone along Houston Street. The signs are located between County Line Road and Old Highway 51, where the city says construction has created tighter lanes and changed roadway conditions.