BYARS, Okla. (KFOR) — Author and University of Oklahoma marketing professor Jeff Schmidt calls his weekend adventures “micro-tourism.” “It’s something you can do for $20 on a Saturday,” he says. For ...

This town became so contaminated with lead and toxic waste that the EPA ordered a mandatory evacuation in 2004, leaving ...

The Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Oxford American report on Picher, Oklahoma's annual Christmas parade, reviving community spirit in a ghost town impacted by toxic mining.

A family’s search for missing Oklahoma woman Aubrey Dameron has come to a tragic end. On Wednesday, February 5, 2025, officials with the Quapaw Nation Marshal Service announced that human remains ...

Ghost towns aren't just spooky sets for movies-they're real. These eerie, abandoned locales are peppered throughout the United States. Many are old mining settlements, left to rot after the goldmines ...