Osage County

A tornado tore through Barnsdall in May, killing 2 people, injuring 33 and leaving a trail of destroyed buildings.

A federal judge says a wind farm must pay the Osage Nation for illegally mining on Osage land, but the court hasn’t decided how much. At closing arguments this week, federal prosecutors argued those damages are more than 500 times as much as the wind farm’s attorneys say it should owe.

Osage Nation police are investigating damage to the Million Dollar Elm in Pawhuska discovered earlier this week.

A 2017 tornado damaged the theater built by Alex Tall Chief to honor the community and his two ballerina daughters. Now, in the wake of a story that aired on NPR, it's getting a new roof.

The movie tells the story of the Osage Reign of Terror during the 1920s. It was filmed within the Osage Nation in Northern Oklahoma and has been generating buzz since its Cannes debut last summer.

Join Osage News and KOSU for a bus tour featuring historic cultural sites in Pawhuska and Fairfax.

The new Killers of the Flower Moon film is sparking conversations about Oklahoma’s difficult history. But that is complicated by a state law limiting school lessons that make students feel uncomfortable about their race or sex.

Until recently, Native representation in cinema and television has been abysmal. That's slowly changing. The new Martin Scorsese film Killers of the Flower Moon doesn't shy away from the harsh realities of the Osage murders it depicts. But it also does something else: celebrates Osage culture.

Now that Killers of the Flower Moon is becoming a blockbuster movie, the community where many of the murders took place is wrestling with how to open up about this painful past. One solution: rehab a landmark building.

Killers of the Flower Moon is in theaters and already generating Oscar buzz. But for individual Osages, this movie is deeply personal.