In 1929, Amelia Perry was born in Haskell County; just one year later, the nation would be hit with an agricultural and ...

Russell says she had been thinking about ”fantasy for sale,” as it relates to versions of the American dream, and about the ...

Karen Russell’s “The Antidote,” her first novel since Pulitzer Prize finalist “Swamplandia,” does not make it easy on ...

Russell has published excellent short story collections since her 2011 debut novel Swamplandia!, but this is her first novel ...

The March 14 wind storm didn’t only whip up dust, it also caused wildfires to rapidly spread across Texas and Oklahoma. In detailed satellite imagery you could see the thick dispersion of dust ...

I was born in what’s now the center — what was considered the center of the Panhandle, the Dust Bowl. I feel like that just being raised in that time period, I have a good history to remember.

Hazy or dust-darkened skies have recalled the “Dust Bowl” of the 1930s, when millions of tons of blowing soil buried farms and coated towns across the Great Plains. Lesser storms occur every ...

FFA and 4-H youth have shown animals for decades. The 2025 Oklahoma Youth Expo junior livestock show will be held March 10-21 ...

Early in Portlander Karen Russell’s latest novel, The Antidote, its titular witch is trying on names. Rather than cast spells ...

The Dust Bowl, arising from a combination of prolonged drought, heavy winds, and over farming leading to fruitless farmland, and skies blotted out by red and brown dust.

A chain-reaction pileup on Interstate 70 in northwest Kansas Friday resulted in eight deaths as more than 70 vehicles were ...