While rate increases approved for city residential and commercial utilities as well as a hike in tipping fees at the municipal landfill facility took centerstage at Monday’s meetings of the Sallisaw C...

Marble City is among 19 communities recently selected to participate in “Paint Oklahoma Beautiful.” According to a press release from the state of Oklahoma, the “Keep Oklahoma Beautiful” initiative Pa...

Two men have been arrested following a post on social media by the Vian Police Department regarding felony warrants issued for the arrest of a Vian man. Brett D. Hooper, 29, and his uncle, John D. Gor...

Joey Potts of Sallisaw is preparing for a life-changing missionary trip to Israel next month. Potts, 63, who serves as a minister and evangelist, has been undergoing missionary training through IRIS G...

The Sallisaw City Commissioners and the Sallisaw Municipal Authority board on Monday both unanimously approved increasing rates for city utilities — water, sewer and garbage — which will hike monthly ...

A few years ago, Sequoyah County Emergency Management applied for a statewide grant, but didn’t get it. So when it came time this year for the grant application process, SCEM deputy director Jonathan ...

Sequoyah County Sheriff Larry Lane Jr. said the state medical examiner confirmed on Thursday afternoon that a body recovered from a remote, wooded area of southern Adair County earlier this month is R...

Thanks to the efforts of generous community benefactors, some Sequoyah County students and their families are feeling relief this year thanks to the third annual Back-to-School Bash, which took place ...

Two Sallisaw residents had to be transported to a Tulsa hospital for treatment of their injuries following a motorcycle crash that happened Saturday 17 miles south of Tahlequah. Oklahoma Highway Patro...

The annual Back-to-School Roundup on Aug. 5 at the Sallisaw Rodeo Arena drew more than 1,000 people, where more than 600 backpacks stuffed with supplies were given away during the two-hour event. The ...

Supporting our students through their education is something that we all take seriously. In an increasingly more difficult world, it can feel overwhelming to balance all the aspects of our lives. So w...

Public school teachers, national education analysts say, spend an average of almost $480 of their own money each school year on classroom supplies, including books, snacks, pencils, paper and cleaning...

A Fort Smith man is charged with felony first-degree manslaughter after he reportedly ran over another man in the front yard of his residence last month. Roy D. Dye, 52, was charged August 1 in Sequoy...

Children from Sequoyah County participating in the Jr. Bullfighter contest Friday and Saturday at the Sallisaw Rodeo included Sofia Myers, Sam Cox, Stone Cox, Kip Neighbors, Frankie Neighbors, Brayden...

One suspect has been arrested and an arrest warrant has been issued for another charged in the May 2023 breakin of a Sallisaw dispensary. Dustin E. Chavez, 35, of Shawnee, and Tyler Woodall, 31, addre...

Autumn H. Blackmer of Gans says she loves her customers. Blackmer, 28, has been employed at Love’s in Vian since its opening in August, three years ago. “I work here as the assistant restaurant manage...

Paramount in the wisdom Rex Brooks has gained in his 78 years is knowing good horses and good people. Atop the list of good people, in his book, was Delores O’Guin Mitchell, who died Sunday at the age...

Spectators lined Shawntel Smith Blvd. (US64) in Muldrow on Saturday during the annual Muldrow Cruise Night. “The Baddest Cruise Night Around,” now in its 10th year, differed from past years as a new n...

Sequoyah County District 1 Commissioner Ray Watts is taking steps to replace a problematic low-water bridge in the southeastern part of the county with a steel span bridge, a project that will also st...

It’s National Health Care Center Week, and Sallisaw Health and Wellness Center is celebrating the addition of new Urgent Care services, and extended clinic hours for the Sallisaw facility. On Tuesday,...