Your TIMES’ annual Retirement Fair will be held 9 a.m. to noon Saturday at the Sallisaw Middle School cafeteria, 2301 W. Ruth Ave. Whether you’re newly retired, planning ahead or just exploring what’s...

Bryson White recently returned to his hometown of Vian after spending the week at the Cadet Lawman Academy, a program that is held annually during the first week of June at Connors State College in Wa...

The Eastern Oklahoma Pride Committee held its first Pride event in Sallisaw on Saturday, where attendees happily celebrated their differences in identity and allowed themselves to enjoy the occasion, ...

Vance Boelter, 57, the man charged with the murders of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, as well as the shootings of Minnesota Senator John Hoffman and his wife Yvette, not...

A late-night highspeed motorcycle chase spanning multiple counties ended in a crash and arrest just south of Roland, according to the Sequoyah County Sheriff's Office. Steven Denton, 34, is facing a f...

A former Vian Police officer is facing serious criminal charges after an investigation revealed he allegedly lied under oath, illegally entered a residence, and used excessive force during an arrest l...

A Vian woman has been sentenced to more than 12 years in federal prison for her role in trafficking methamphetamine across eastern Oklahoma, federal authorities announced. Stephanie Leigh Rodgers, 40,...

Also called Emancipation Day, Freedom Day or Jubilee Day, Juneteenth is the commemoration of June 19, 1865, the day enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas, learned that they were free. This ye...

Ally Trotter, a 2025 graduate of Vian High School, is now working as an intern for Your TIMES and the Vian Tenkiller News. She chose to intern with the newspapers not only because it’s close to home, ...

The City of Sallisaw will be working with a budget of almost $91 million for the fiscal year that ends June 30, 2026, after city commissioners at their monthly meeting Monday adopted a budget for the ...

A man wanted in connection with an armed robbery and domestic battery in Fort Smith, Ark. is now in custody after being apprehended last week across the state line in Oklahoma. Kenneth M. Byrd, 28, of...

A Sallisaw man has reportedly died nearly four weeks after a serious motorcycle crash on Highway 82 near South Indian Road in Keys. The collision, which occurred on the evening of May 2, has now been ...

Are you superstitious? No? Are you sure? Do you knock on wood or never open an umbrella indoors or never walk under a ladder or avoid breaking a mirror or avoid stepping on a crack in the sidewalk or ...

Savannah Cunningham, at only 18-years-old, has already attained the crowning achievement of becoming the second runner-up for the Strawberry Queen Pageant during the 78th annual Strawberry Festival in...

The more days that turned into weeks, which then evolved into months and stretched into years since the September 2020 groundbreaking for the new Sallisaw Veterans Center, the more impatient the commu...

Six incumbents were re-elected to the Council of the Cherokee Nation during the tribe’s General Election on June 7, according to unofficial results from the Cherokee Nation Election Commission. The in...

The Sallisaw Board of Education convened for its regular monthly meeting at 6 p.m. Monday at the district’s administration building, approving a full slate of business measures ahead of the upcoming s...

SHAWNEE — Your TIMES and its staff earned 13 awards Saturday when the Oklahoma Press Association presented its Better Newspaper Contest awards during the association’s annual convention held this year...

The National Weather Service confirmed that at least three EF1 tornadoes struck Sequoyah County on Friday, with one beginning at Vian, another just east of Sallisaw and a third went north of Roland in...

On Thursday, Deborah Cates, the founder and owner of Aromas Coffee Shop, celebrated her 25th year as a business owner in Sallisaw. Cates, along with her husband Ricky and son Will, moved to Sallisaw i...