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Ponca City in top ten for lowest cost of living

10 months ago By News Staff

PONCA CITY, OK - The Ponca City Development Authority (PCDA) Board of Trustees heard some good news about the Ponca City economy this week. Among the 271 urban areas that participated in the first quarter of the 2023 Cost of Living Index, Ponca City has ranked in the Top 10 Least Expensive Urban Areas. The Cost of Living Index (COLI) is published quarterly by C2ER – The Council for Community and Economic Research. Ponca City Development Authority (PCDA) staff has been collecting Cost of Living data three times a year for over 17 years. .

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PCDA meeting held on June 8

10 months ago By News Staff

By CALLEY LAMAR calley@poncacitynews.com The Ponca City Development Authority (PCDA) held their regular monthly meeting on Thursday, June 8 in the John McNeese Gallery at City Central at 7:30 am. Nancy Laffey called the meeting to order.

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Happenings

10 months ago By News Staff

MEETING TO BE HELD Ponca City Arts & Humanities Council will meet for their Annual meeting on Thursday, June 15th, 2023, at Noon at El Patio, 731 N. 14th St., Ponca City. All members are encouraged to attend.

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Adoptable Pets

10 months ago By News Staff

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Reading, Writing and Financial Literacy

10 months ago By Stacy Murray Contributing Writer

As parents, we spend a lot of time thinking about grades and manners. We spend Saturday mornings at the soccer fields or the ball park. We worry about friend groups; we plan birthday parties, and we attend parent-teacher conferences.

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Education package offers $625M in public school funding, but some say not enough

10 months ago By Jessica Marshall Stillwater Newspress, Okla.

Jun. 6—The Oklahoma Legislature passed what’s been called a historic education package in May — but the reviews are mixed as to what the effect will be on the education scene across the state.

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Police Blotter

10 months ago By News Staff

June 3, 2023 Disturbance - At 1:45 am, the reporting party advised of juveniles throwing rocks at windows in the 900 block of Brentwood Drive. Suspicious Person/Vehicle - At 10:35 am, the reporting party requested an officer in reference to a squatter at 522 N.

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Dam destroyed in the dead of night upstages Ukraine’s counteroffensive

10 months ago By News Staff

The 24 hours before Tuesday’s flooding of the Dnipro River basin were already dramatic, as Ukraine appeared on the cusp of a counteroffensive that many in Kyiv see as their best chance to defeat Russia’s invasion.

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Congress tees up FAA, pipeline safety, rail, supply chain bills

10 months ago By Valerie Yurk Cq-roll Call

WASHINGTON — Transportation leaders in Congress are queuing up a host of bills over the summer legislative season aimed at overhauling the aviation system, reauthorizing pipeline infrastructure programs, ramping up rail safety and addressing supply chain woes and competition with China.

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Pence takes on Trump, his former boss, for 2024 Republican nomination

10 months ago By Mark Niquette Bloomberg News

Saying “different times call for different leadership,” former Vice President Mike Pence announced that he’s challenging his former boss, Donald Trump, for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.

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