Summer is synonymous with backyard cookouts and outdoor fun. Likewise, parades and fireworks are staples for the Fourth of July. Add those elements together and you’ve got the ingredients for a memora...

What if owners of the city’s 4,200 parcels of property could decide on their own — regardless where the property is located or the status of neighboring property — whether or not they want to be in th...

Cherokee Nation on Monday presented automated external defibrillators (AED) to six Sequoyah County rural volunteer fire departments, as well as to Central High School and Sequoyah County 911. The dona...

A routine property visit led to the discovery of an illegal marijuana grow operation in the Marble City/Dwight Mission area last week, resulting in the seizure of more than 650 pounds of processed mar...

Thursday, July 3 • Vian, Armstrong Park. Concert at amphitheater beginning at 6:30 p.m., followed by fireworks. First time in Armstrong Park due to football field demolition. • Barling (Ark.) City Par...

As Independence Day approaches, many pet owners worry about how fireworks and Fourth of July celebrations will affect their furry friends. Alice Messer, owner and operator of Abby’s Angels Grooming an...

Sallisaw City Manager Brian Heverly and Sallisaw Superintendent Steve Barrett took business and community leaders on a tour of the Stanley H. Collins Aquatics Center construction site Wednesday as the...

Anyone in Sequoyah County would undoubtedly be hard pressed to name a better animal advocate than Dr. Paula Haraway. So the city and animal lovers alike are surely fortunate that Haraway is part of th...

When the call goes out in an accident involving a pedestrian and a train, expectations are usually low that the result will not be a fatality. Tuesday was an exception, and is being hailed as “a remar...

Over the weekend, two roads in southeastern Missouri, as well as in several other central states, buckled due to extreme heat. When what appeared to be a similar collapse of state Highway 82 between M...

Heith Johnson, 52, is a familiar face at the local farmers market, where his vibrant artwork captures the attention of passersby. A lifelong resident of Sequoyah County, Johnson grew up in Muldrow and...

Although the Sallisaw hospital has been around for 75 years, it’s no secret that there have been financial struggles. As it is with real estate, it turns out the same mantra applies to rural hospitals...

When Sallisaw City Commissioners approved a new ordinance in April for licensing itinerant vendors and food trucks, they didn’t realize the idiom penned by Scottish poet Robert Burns — “the best laid ...

STILWELL — What the Sallisaw hospital recently avoided, Stilwell Memorial Hospital could not. Northeastern Health System Sequoyah (NHSS) in December convinced Sallisaw City Commissioners to intervene ...

How would your life change if you knew you are at risk for cancer? Res earcher s who offered free genetic testing Friday at ICTC hope to be able to provide you that early- warning news. Jaime Bauer, a...

A Gore man was arrested and booked into the Sequoyah County Detention Center after being found in possession of Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM), according to Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation ...

During a brief special meeting on June 10, the Gore Board of Trustees unanimously approved the town’s operating budget for the upcoming fiscal year and voted to hire a part-time employee. The meeting ...

Those who complain about spring rains in Oklahoma are often met with the admonition: You won’t be saying that in August. Such is the rainy-drought cycle of Oklahoma. And with the onset today of summer...

Whether Barry Kirk is prosecuted for assault and battery on Eastern Oklahoma Pride president Haley Earls is now up to the Sequoyah County District Attorney’s Office, following an investigation by Sall...

Citing their duty “to be good stewards of the taxpayers’ money,” the Sequoyah County Commissioners have curtailed using a cybersecurity company that the assessor’s office has used since 2017, choosing...