Both the Durant girls and boys basketball teams split District 5A-4 contests last week. The Lady Lions dropped a narrow 47-45 verdict to Glenpool in a battle for the league lead but bounced back to ...

January 21 was declared P.E.O. International Founders Day by Durant Mayor Martin Tucker during a city council meeting last week.

In an effort to return local control to Oklahoma schools, Sen. David Bullard, R-Durant, recently filed legislation to repeal the state’s minimum salary schedule for teachers.

Durant City Council, in a meeting attended last week by ICE protesters, passed an ordinance that requires a conditional use permit for anyone wanting to operate a detention center in the city. There ...

A rough road trip through Northwest Arkansas culminated with four losses for the Southeastern basketball teams last week. The Savage Storm women put up solid offensive numbers but came out on the ...

In a rare achievement for an undergraduate student, Colby Higdon, a geology major on the paleontology track with the University of Oklahoma has published original paleontological research conducted at ...

A trio of Durant High School wrestlers were placers in the prestigious Malcolm Wade Titan Classic last weekend to cap a busy week on the mat. Aiden Polk claimed third place in the 157-pound division, ...

Top seeds for this week’s Bryan County Tournament squared off in regular season play last week with Caddo winning each contest in dominant fashion. The Class A top-ranked Lady Bruins cruised past ...

Returning from the Christmas break, the Durant Lion wrestling team ran into tough dual competition while coming up on the short end of a pair of contests ahead of the Pauls Valley Tournament where ...

The Durant Board of Education during its Monday meeting voted to rename the Durant High School gym the Robinson Family Gymnasium. Durant Lady Lions basketball head coach Will Robinson and his daughter ...

The Durant Lady Lions snapped a more than a decade long losing skid to Ada and claimed third place in the Annual East Central Classic last week. Coach Tony Robinson’s club opened the week with a ...

After a grueling start to begin conference play, the Southeastern women’s basketball team finally got in the win column twice over with a sweep of home tilts with Southern Arkansas and ...