Kateleigh Mills
Special Projects ReporterKateleigh Mills returned to KOSU in December 2019 as Special Projects Reporter, following a year-long stint at KWBU in Waco, Texas.
Mills oversees the KOSU Texting Club, one of the tools KOSU uses to directly engage with community members on issues in Oklahoma. She is the producer for KOSU's Audio Diaries podcast, which was created in 2020 as a non-narrated project dedicated to telling the lived experience of Oklahomans during the coronavirus pandemic. Mills was also a contributor to America Amplified, an engagement journalism project, during the 2020 election year.
Mills is also an alum and mentor of NPR's Next Generation Radio Project.
Previously, she was a news assistant and All Things Considered host for KOSU from March to December 2018. She completed her undergraduate degree in Professional Media at the University of Central Oklahoma in December 2017.
-
Lawmakers in both the House and Senate voted to override a Governor’s veto that would have led to the end of Oklahoma’s public television broadcaster, OETA. They also took up other measures the governor had refused to sign into law, passing them without his support. -
The new law makes it a crime to harass, intimidate, threaten or "dox" an election worker.
-
KOSU and StateImpact Oklahoma were named winners of best public service journalism in audio at the Great Plains Journalism Awards for the series Youth in Conversation.
-
Nearly 327,000 registered Oklahoma voters will receive notices to confirm their addresses over the next several weeks.
-
The program is paid for by the bipartisan infrastructure bill and is intended to help guide intercity passenger rail projects. Kansas and Oklahoma Transportation Departments jointly applied earlier this year for the Heartland Flyer Extension proposal.
-
An outbreak of tornadoes in central Oklahoma Wednesday evening leveled homes, tossed vehicles and killed at least three people. The Red Cross has opened shelters in three locations.
-
Oklahoma lawmakers are pushing through legislation aimed at Oklahoma’s medical marijuana industry. These efforts come after Oklahomans voted down recreational cannabis last month.
-
The Not Invisible Act Commission held their first hearing at the Osage Casino in Tulsa on Tuesday to talk about the best way to respond when an Indigenous person is reporting missing or murdered, and they were doing so with the full support of the federal government.
-
Panhandle election comes down to a single ballot.
-
U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm and Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff announced an investment using federal funds to create the Great Plains Center of Excellence on Friday.
