The Sallisaw Police Department reported on August 5 that thanks to the vigilance of Sallisaw Police officer Colton Burgess, a total of 82.53 pounds of marijuana, 3.2 pounds of edible marijuana, and pr...

This summer, Emily Johnson of Roland had the adventure of a lifetime. The 19-year-old sophomore at the University of Oklahoma, who graduated from Roland High School and is studying to become a teacher...

Sequoyah County Sheriff Larry Lane said thanks to the heroic actions of one of his off-duty deputies, a driver’s life was saved on July 31. Lane said dispatch received a report last Wednesday of a sin...

A man reportedly took his own life on Monday morning at a local business, according to an incident report issued by Sallisaw police. Sallisaw Police officer Tucker Martens has identified Donald R. Dav...

Benjamin Franklin told us that, in this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes. Insurance companies limiting their payouts could be added to that idiom. And that’s what Sequoyah County, as w...

Congressman Josh Brecheen will host an inperson town hall meeting in Sallisaw on Friday, Aug. 16, beginning at 8 a.m. at the Wheeler Event Center, 103 N. Wheeler Avenue. The hour-long town hall is par...

Margaret Perry grew up in Sallisaw. She remembers living in a house across the railroad tracks from downtown, the product of “a protective mother and dad,” where the naiveté of the era in small-town A...

The Sallisaw Lions Club Rodeo, which began its three-day run on Thursday night, has turned 80-years-old, adding a lot of new things for this year’s annual rodeo event. “We’re really excited,” Sallisaw...

If there’s one thing I could tell federal lawmakers, it would be to bring back the expanded, monthly, fully refundable Child Tax Credit. Those monthly payments of up to $300 per child cut child povert...

Kenneth Corn, Oklahoma director for USDA Rural Development, announced Tuesday that the department is making available more than $12.1 million in infrastructure improvements delivered under the Biden-H...

This August, Sallisaw resident Chris Richardson will celebrate his 40th birthday. For Richardson, this milestone holds special significance given the challenges he has faced and overcome. His life is ...

An Edmond man was pronounced deceased on Sunday afternoon after jumping off a bluff at the Burnt Cabin cliffs on Tenkiller Lake. Oklahoma Highway Patrol Trooper Stanley Roedenbeck #842 of Troop W repo...

Three Texas residents are scheduled for an August 28 arraignment in Sequoyah County District Court after the alleged kidnapping of two small children from a vehicle at Walmart, in Sallisaw, on July 4....

When you looked at the water coming from your faucet Monday and saw a brownish tinge, it may have initiated a conversation — even with yourself — that sounded something like “I’m not gonna try it. You...

The third time just may be the charm for. After finishing third nationally a year ago in the teen division of the USA Mullet Championships, Lease is again putting his “business in the front, party in ...

Oklahomans will hit the stores and internet Friday through Sunday for a back-to-school sales tax holiday. State, city and county sales taxes won’t be collected on clothing and footwear if the sales pr...

Larry Crowe is proof that by the time you’ve been around 80-some-odd years, you’ve probably experienced quite a bit in life. As Crowe will surely attest, those who grew up in the lean war years of the...

Shay Swindall lives in a tent, under a busy Oklahoma City overpass, in a sprawling homeless encampment. When she needed a new albuterol inhaler recently, she tried to ration the last few puffs she had...

A Sallisaw man is charged with felony child neglect after a small child was reportedly found naked on another person’s porch last month. Luis A. Lopez, 27, was charged July 9 in Sequoyah County Distri...

A Sallisaw man who failed to register as a sex offender in Sequoyah County is now scheduled to appear for a September 4 felony disposition docket. Micah D. Albertson, 26, was reportedly charged on Jul...