The Game Commission went to bat for its deputy wildlife conservation officers this past week during a Senate Game and Fisheries Committee hearing. The deputy program has been around since 1903. Its validity has been called into question recently, though, by state Sen.

By Janice Francis-Smith In January 2006, physician Richard Stansberry appeared before the Oklahoma County Planning Commission. He was there to explain what was happening with a plan to build a single-family, residential subdivision on a parcel of land he had owned for decades. "Dr.

By Mary Gail Hare, The Baltimore Sun Jul. 19--Deer Creek will be increasingly stressed by population growth in the next two decades, much of it caused by expansion at Aberdeen Proving Ground because of BRAC, according to a new regional study.

By Tony Thornton, The Oklahoman Jul. 11--The proposed sale of 206 state-owned acres next to Deer Creek High School in Oklahoma County was put on hold Thursday amid concerns about the appraisal process used to determine its value.

The Deer Creek Watershed Association is recruiting volunteers to conduct the most comprehensive survey to date monitoring the health of Deer Creek, Little Deer Creek and their tributaries.