Sen. Warren Hamilton, R-McCurtain, received a perfect score on the 2024 Oklahoma Conservative Index. The annual rating by The Oklahoma Constitution evaluates lawmakers’ votes on key conservative measu...

The following is a list of programs being offered at the Stanley Tubbs Memorial Library in Sallisaw by the OSU Extension office in Sallisaw: September 10 - Steps to a Healthy Blood Pressure, 9 to 10 a...

Gans Public School is participating in a free breakfast and/or lunch program for the current school year, 2025. All students enrolled in the district may participate in the free breakfast and/or lunch...

The Sequoyah County Fairground’s Avis Jackson Show Arena has a new look! Dirt work and concrete was completed in June for the $35,000 project, which was made financially possible by several contributo...

Congressman Josh Brecheen will host an in-person 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 pa...

Padgett’s Barber Shop in Sallisaw has been in business for 65 years, and the business has only moved once in all those years. Dewey Padgett does not seem to be taking a break anytime soon as he contin...

Join Cherokee Nation Speaker Services for Cultural Wellness Gatherings from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Marble City Community Center, each Tuesday, during the month of August. The events are free and ope...

The Oklahoma State Department of Health’s (OSDH) Certified Healthy Oklahoma Program is now accepting applications for 2024. Applications must be received by close of business on Nov. 1, 2024, to be co...

Tobacco Stops With Me, a program of the Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust (TSET), is launching a new campaign to encourage parents and educators to talk with kids about the dangers of youth vaping an...

On July 25, Northeastern State University and Carl Albert State College announced they would be continuing their partnership that provides additional experiential learning opportunities for graduate s...

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...

OKLAHOMA CITY – The Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office last week said it is looking into what appears to be a “willful violation” of the Oklahoma Open Meeting Act by the State Board of Education. Thre...

Tens of thousands of farmers or would-be farmers who say they suffered discrimination when they applied for assistance from the U.S. Department of Agriculture will get one-time payments that total abo...

The Oklahoma Board of Education denied three lawmakers access to an executive session portion of its meeting Wednesday, even after the state attorney general confirmed they have the right to attend. S...

For those who view Washington, D.C., through the same rosecolored lenses that naive Sen. Jefferson Smith did in Frank Capra’s “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” Oklahoma Senator Markwayne Mullin provided...

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 Muldrow woman who allegedly left two small children in a vehicle at Dollar General is charged with child neglect after one of the children was able to get out on their own. Alison R. Wayit, 37, was ...

The stylists and new barber at Hogan’s Salon in Sallisaw recently gave back to the community, conducting free back-to-school haircuts for students last Monday at the Gans School gymnasium. All of the ...

Roland Public Schools (RPS) and CREOKS Health Services are teaming up to bring school-based mental health services to RPS. Together, they’re committed to supporting the well-being of students. Beginni...

Belfonte Public Schools Students return to class on August 8. Open House, August 13, 5:30 to 7 p.m. Students return to class on August 15. Gans Public Schools Class Schedule Pickup, High School: Sopho...