The Oklahoma State Department of Education has assigned the state a D grade for academic achievement in public schools, but a C in learning growth for the 2024-25 school year. The agency recently rele...

ROBBIE SEQUEIRA | STATELINE Northeast of the capital city of Des Moines in central Iowa, the 400-student Collins-Maxwell Community School District is one of many across the state shifting to a four-da...

A 60-year-old Mexican national unlawfully present in Sequoyah County has pleaded guilty in federal court to unlawfully reentering the United States after a prior removal, according to the U.S. Attorne...

Ask a politician a question, even a simple one, and any office-seeker worth his weight in subsidies and campaign donations will undoubtedly respond with a lengthy answer that might address your query,...

Bessie Edwards, 97, of Muldrow, said she has lived in Sequoyah County for a very long time. “I spent my youth in Middle Ridge and went to school there,” Edwards recalled. “And later, to high school at...

Looking back on the year that was, Sallisaw and Sequoyah County were witness to a wide range of happenings. From the push by county commissioners to oust County Assessor Brandy Dobbs and the prelimina...

The triple-murder trial of Stacy Lee Drake, the Alabama felon accused of the June 2024 murders of Tara Underwood and Taylor Sharp at LaFerry’s Propane near Gans as well as the El Reno slaying of Phill...

Supporters who want to eliminate property taxes are collecting signatures on a petition that would place State Question 842 on the November 2026 ballot. But the Association of County Commissioners of ...

A bicyclist was seriously injured recently following a collision with a pickup truck along Highway 82 in Sequoyah County, according to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol (OHP). The accident occurred at about...

Vian Public School students and local residents lined the streets on December 26 to welcome home Cash Collins, after a miracle allowed him to be released from the hospital just in time for Christmas. ...

Oklahoma and Arkansas officials are denouncing a federal judge’s decision that found poultry companies responsible for polluting a key watershed in both states and also ordered them to pay millions to...

Anne Griffin is an 81-year- old mother of five, grandmother of 12 and great-grandmother of five. She’s also a decorated veteran of Operation Desert Storm, so she’s no pushover. She’s a widow who has l...

The Sallisaw Chamber of Commerce recently graduated two more Leadership classes. But for Leadership facilitator Nan Stites, this year’s groups of leaders and future leaders just seemed a bit more spec...

The gross household income limit for seniors who own property in Sequoyah County has been increased to $80,600 for the 2026 tax year, County Assessor Brandy Allen (previously Dobbs) reported recently....

Every year on December 26, Santa Claus says he wakes up with the same feeling every other person gets when they realize it’s Monday. “The North Pole is quiet, too quiet,” Santa says of the day after C...

And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed. (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) And all w...

While we were told in the Middle Ages that “all roads lead to Rome,” when it comes to sidewalks proposed for Sallisaw, pedestrians will soon be able to “walk from the food court at Iola and Cedar all ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — Controversial academic standards for social studies are unenforceable because Oklahoma’s top school board violated state open meeting laws when approving them, the state Supreme Court ...

Supporters of an effort to gradually eliminate property taxes have withdrawn and refiled their initiative petition. Mike Reynolds, a former Republican House member and proponent, said the measure was ...

The new 20-foot-tall programmable, animated, musical, artificial Christmas tree has been a “huge success,” says Sallisaw City Manager Brian Heverly. The tree is located on the lawn of Stanley Tubbs Me...