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The 2026 USA Gymnastics Championships will return to Tulsa, Oklahoma June 22-27, USA Gymnastics announced Thursday.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (October 30, 2025) – The 2026 USA Gymnastics Championships will return to Tulsa, Oklahoma June 22-27, USA Gymnastics announced Thursday.

Having last hosted the championships in 2023, the BOK Center will again play host to elite competition while the Arvest Convention Center will house all developmental gymnastics action. Nearly 2,000 athletes compete annually at the national championship event for rhythmic, acrobatic and trampoline and tumbling athletes.

U.S. titles and National Team spots will be up for grabs as rosters will be determined for various international events including the 2026 FIG World Championships.

“The talent pool in trampoline and tumbling, acro and rhythmic is stronger than ever,” USA Gymnastics’ Chief Programs Officer Stefanie Korepin said. “We look forward to returning to Tulsa and having the community see the country’s best athletes in these disciplines.”

Since the 2023 edition of the championships in Tulsa, American athletes have continued to make their mark on the international stage and up the profile of their respective sports, including having the best men’s trampoline finish by Aliaksei Shostak at the 2024 Olympic Games; seeing the first acrobatic men’s pair World Cup Series title won in 2023; and seeing Rin Keys win the country’s first junior (2023) and senior (2025) World Championships medals in rhythmic gymnastics.

The USA Gymnastics Championships in 2026 will have new and returning stars on the competition floor as the new quad continues.

“Tulsa is thrilled to welcome back the USA Gymnastics Championships in 2026,” said Sarah Inboden, Vice President of Experience & Events at Tulsa Regional Tourism. “The 2023 Championships were a huge success and next year will be even bigger and better. We can’t wait to welcome the fantastic athletes, families and fans as Tulsa continues to show why it is a premiere destination for top-tier sporting events.”

Visit usagymchamps.com for additional information about the 2026 USA Gymnastics Championships and each discipline as it becomes available. Ticketing information will be announced soon.

TULSA, Okla. — Tulsa's Hispanic community will gather Saturday to celebrate Día de los Muertos, honoring loved ones who have passed away through colorful altars, music and food.

Living Arts of Tulsa, in partnership with Casa de la Cultura, is hosting the annual Día de los Muertos Arts Festival on Nov. 1 from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. The centuries-old tradition creates space for families to remember ancestors while preserving their cultural heritage for the next generation.

"Just walking around and listening to people build their altars, you get to listen to families sharing stories of their loved ones and remembering all the traditions that make their family special," said Laura Ruiz, project and programming manager at Living Arts of Tulsa. "You see the little kids there asking questions — why we do this and that. So it's a sharing of cultures, but it's also like a remembrance of your family."

The festival will feature more than 40 family-built altars, two performance stages, free art kits for children, a vendor market and food trucks. At 9 p.m., a local priest will lead a procession with Aztec dancers for the blessing of the altars — one of the most special moments of the event.

Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, blends Native Mexican and Spanish traditions into a celebration of life. Families create altars with photos, candles, flowers and their loved ones' favorite foods.

"It's kind of beautiful to experience a festival where we look at something traditionally seen as scary, like death, and make it accessible and colorful and something to be celebrated," Ruiz said. "It's also really special to go around the altars and see people in your community and see their history and their family. It's not just a Hispanic festival. We have families of all different kinds building the altars."

The event is free and open to all families, regardless of background. A community altar will be available for anyone who wants to bring photos of loved ones or write a note in their memory.

Food trucks will be located on Reconciliation Way in front of Living Arts of Tulsa and in the parking lot. Performances will take place on the main stage on Elgin and in the Living Arts parking lot. Vendors will be set up in the Vast Bank parking lot.

The festival also includes workshops throughout the week, including iron casting, weaving and pottery. A screening by Sisters of Cinema will feature "Real Women Have Curves" directed by Patricia Cardoso on Tuesday, November 11.

For more information, visit livingarts.org.

Blue Owl-backed Beale Infrastructure is planning new data center campuses in Arizona and Oklahoma.

The data center developer has filed applications for a second data center campus outside Tucson, Arizona, and is also seeking to develop two sites outside Tulsa in Oklahoma.

Beale looks at second Arizona site

As reported by local press, including AZ Central and KGUN9, the town of Marana has received applications to build a data center campus.

Two applications were submitted to the town this month to develop two sites located south of Pinal Airpark Road and west of I-10 into a data center campus.

Marana is a town that mostly lies in Pima County, northeast of Tucson.

Town officials said the applications were submitted by Lazarus and Silvyn, P.C., representing Fremont Peak Properties LLC, which is a Beale Infrastructure-owned company.

The two sites total 300 acres each, and are currently owned by Corp. Presiding Bishop of Church LDS and Kai Family Tr97 & Kai Tr 97 S12 LLC.

“They haven’t identified a specific number of buildings, but it’d be a series of buildings that are put up that store the servers and all of that that provide support for technology, as far as the cloud storage, AI, things of that nature,” Marana’s development services director, Jason Angell, told KGUN9. He added the site would be air-cooled, however.

The Marana town council updated its ordinances last year to clarify approval requirements for data centers. Town officials told AZ Central they have had conversations with several interested companies over the past three years.

Beale continues on in Arizona

Beale Infrastructure is a data center developer backed by alternative investment asset company Blue Owl.

The company is hoping to develop a large-scale data center campus elsewhere in Pima County, but has been facing pushback from local residents and officials.

Project Blue is a 290-acre site set to host a data center campus, with Amazon linked to the project. Beale has said there is no agreement in place with AWS.

The initial phase of the project is located in Pima County’s Southeast Employment and Logistics Center. At least three data centers are reportedly set to be built, but the final number of buildings could be higher; reports suggest up to 10 buildings totaling 2 million sq ft (185,805 sqm) and 600MW are planned. Beale has said it aims to invest $3.6 billion in the project. Construction work on the first phase is set to run from 2026 to 2029, with the first buildings potentially going live in 2027.

Local officials last month denied an annexation request that would have given the project access to the city’s reclaimed water system. The company, however, has since filed for a ten-year, 286MW energy supply agreement with the Arizona Corporation Commission, the state’s utilities regulator.

Beale has also announced an updated project design for its proposed data center project in Pima County, suggesting the project will go ahead without the previously requested water connection.

The updated design, developed in partnership with the Pima County board of supervisors, incorporates air cooling technology that utilizes a closed-loop system. The company will not use any reclaimed water from the city for the project.

“We appreciate the dialogue with the Pima County Board of Supervisors about the project plan and will be soliciting and implementing feedback from members of the community,” Michael Nudelman, chief development officer at Beale Infrastructure, said last month, “this revised project plan is designed to the highest standard of sustainable facility operations, utilizing existing clean energy resources and incorporating air cooling technology.”

The No Desert Data Center Coalition is continuing to mobilize against the project, recently protesting outside a Democratic Party fundraiser, calling on Pima County board supervisor Matt Heinz to reverse his support for the project.

Beale comes to Oklahoma

Beale Infrastructure is also known to be planning a development outside Kansas City in De Soto, Kansas. On its website, the firm notes planned development in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

This week, the Broken Arrow Sentinel and News9 reported that Beale is planning a development in Coweta, a city southeast of Tulsa in Wagoner County.

The proposed Project Atlas development is targeting land along 16192 State Highway 51B, just south of Coweta and east of Highway 72.

Coweta City manager Julie Casteen told the Sentinel that Beale has a purchase and sale agreement with both the Coweta Industrial Development Authority and a private owner for the site, and a rezoning request has been submitted.

Full details about the proposal are unclear, but the company is hosting an open house about the project later this month.

Local property records show the Coweta Industrial Development Authority sold 40 acres of property to Chicago-based Quartz Mountain Properties for $850,000 late last year. Quartz Mountain, which is involved in another Beale project in the area, signed another land deal with Hopping Family Trust earlier this year.

Beale has also been named as the firm behind Project Clydesdale, a planned 506-acre data center campus in Owasso, a city northeast of Tulsa.

The development, in Tulsa County, will be located north of East 76th Street North, east of North Yale Avenue, south of East 86th Street North, and west of North Sheridan Road. The project will consist of at least one phase with three possible additional phases, with each phase covering approximately 200,000 sq ft (18,580 sqm).

First reported in May, the county board approved the project’s economic development plan and tax incentives last month. Beale was working with Quartz Mountain on that development.

Neither Tulsa, nor Oklahoma more generally, has a major data center ecosystem.

Google operates a data center campus to the east of Tulsa in Pryor, Mayes County. Announced in 2007, it launched a facility there back in 2011 and has expanded at regular intervals since.

TierPoint operates several data centers in Tulsa. Last year, Tonaquint acquired an EdgeX data center in Oklahoma City.

A 340-acre campus known as Project Anthem is in the works in Tulsa. Meta has been linked to the development, which is due to begin construction next year.

TULSA, Okla. — Delta Dental of Oklahoma (DDOK) and the Delta Dental of Oklahoma Foundation awarded a Tulsa dental student with a research stipend for the 2025-2026 academic year.

Second year dental student Rena Zhang is one of only four students at the University of Oklahoma College of Dentistry (OUCOD) to receive a research stipend and the only student from the Tulsa area to receive one.

"With Oklahoma facing a growing need for skilled dental professionals, every research stipend is an investment in the future dental workforce of Oklahoma," said John Gladden, the President and CEO of DDOK. "Our Foundation is proud to support students like Rena whose commitment to dentistry will help ensure Oklahoma communities can receive quality oral health care for generations to come."

Rena's research project is set to study the association between Peripheral Giant Cell Granuloma and dental implants using a retrospective analysis.

Several dental and dental hygiene students at the OU College of Dentistry who said they're planning to work in Oklahoma after graduation were also awarded scholarships by DDOK to help them pursue their studies.

Between the provided scholarships and the four students receiving research stipends, the DDOK and its foundation awarded over $117,000 to 17 students for the current academic year.

Paul M. Mullasseril, the dean of the OU College of Dentistry stated, "For decades, Delta Dental of Oklahoma and its Foundation have shown a remarkable commitment to our students and to the future of dentistry in our state. Their support and research funding continue to empower our students to pursue their passion for dentistry, making a lasting impact on the oral health landscape of Oklahoma."

The 17 students awarded with scholarships and research stipends for the 2025-2026 academic year are listed below:

Dental Scholarship Recipients

Dental Hygiene Recipients

Dental Research Stipend Recipients