Jonathan Teague, deputy director of Sequoyah County Emergency Management, was appointed as the new director for the agency Monday by Sequoyah County Commissioners, due to the resignation of former dir...

Area residents with no-longer-used or outdated prescription drugs can safely dispose of them Friday. A medication take-back day will be conducted 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Clif’s Pharmacy, 505 E. Redwood A...

Time was that if a family didn’t know how to live off the land, they went hungry and did without. It was a time when too many lived hand to mouth. Gertie Barber of Muldrow remembers those days when hu...

Your TIMES held its annual Women’s Expo on Thursday at Sallisaw Middle School, where almost 300 women took advantage of a day filled with fun, food and fellowship. This year’s Women’s Expo magazine an...

A Cookson man reportedly lost his life Sunday after rolling down a 30-foot cliff into the waters of Lake Tenkiller in Cherokee County. Oklahoma Highway Patrol Trooper Perry #349 of the Marine Enforcem...

Roland police and the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation have launched an investigation into Monday’s shooting death of a 2-year-old in southeast Roland. According to Roland Assistant Police Chief...

Chris Adams waited all day Wednesday to see what divers might recover from Dirty Creek, south of Webbers Falls, hoping it might be the truck belonging to his brother Stephan M. Adams, an NSU student w...

Sequoyah County Sheriff Larry Lane Jr. said his deputies and investigators have made three drugs arrests over the last few weeks. Lane said on Sept. 25 that Deputy Galen Irvin initiated a traffic stop...

If there were honors given in Sequoyah County for heroes, Natalie Sanders of Sallisaw, should be among the top. Sanders, 17, recently helped a victim who apparently had overdosed on drugs by administe...

The Sallisaw High School Black Diamond Marching Band has been named the 2023 4A OBA State Champions for the third year in a row. The band competed in Catoosa on Oct. 14, under the direction of Geoff W...

Muldrow High School’s marching band has been named the 2023 OBA 3A State Champions. Not only did they win first place, they were also named the winners of the High Music, High Visual and High General ...

Vian Elementary students Jaylynn Callaway and Brody Buttery were recently recognized by the Vian Board of Education for demonstrating exceptional kindness. During a recent cross country track meet, Bu...

The annual Drive Out Domestic Violence caravan will be held today (Thursday, Oct. 19). The caravan is a way for local law enforcement and community members to show solidarity against domestic violence...

Josh Rogers is surely beginning to feel a little like Santa Claus when the jolly old elf’s sleigh is being filled to overflowing for his annual trip to visit the homes of good little boys and girls ar...

Sequoyah County Commissioners approved an increased salary cap for courthouse employees, and took action on other business matters conducted at Monday’s regular meeting. Commissioners approved to rais...

A local man is facing a felony charge of failure to register as sex offender after being convicted of lewd molestation and rape in Sequoyah County in July 2020. Jason Henderson, 24, with addresses in ...

The inaugural Red Autumn Arts Festival is set to take place on the first Saturday in November at Stage Park in downtown Sallisaw. This event is to be a regional celebration of arts and culture, attrac...

POTEAU -- Poteau BalloonFest will continue to “Rise Above the Ordinary” on Friday and Saturday as Oklahoma’s longest running balloon festival. The event has “ballooned” into a success, rising to new h...

A felony arrest warrant has been issued for a Vian woman, who was charged on Oct. 12 with felony burglary in the second degree. Jennifer G. Barnes, 46, could face up to seven years imprisonment if fou...

George Bormann, Sallisaw’s economic development and grants director, channeled his inner Will Rogers at Monday’s Sallisaw City Commissioners meeting. “You never get a second chance to make a first imp...