Petition to control turbines awaiting decision by ADA District 3 County Commissioner Bobby Ziegler shared a message sent to him by Chad Macy, a representative of the TransAlta Canadian River Project. ...

City general elections in Checotah and Eufaula April 1 For the Feb. 11 Special Election of the City of Eufaula, early voting will be held on Thursday, February 6 and Friday, Feb. 7 from 8 a.m. to 6 p....

The annual Martin Luther King Jr. birthday celebration breakfast at the Mt. Olive Star Baptist Church was held inside while the outside temperature was barely out of the teens. But the celebration war...

Between them, two young burglary suspects face almost 30 felony and misdemeanor counts after being caught on video breaking into cars at a residence in a rural area near Eufaula. Upon further investig...

Guy Martin Adams, 49, of Checotah, pleaded no contest on Jan. 8 to violating Oklahoma’s Antiterrorism Act and to threatening to perform an act of violence. Associate District Judge Brendon Bridges sen...

The high temperature on Monday afternoon was 29 degrees. The morning was 17 degrees - with a windchill of near zero, according to the National Weather Service. The remainder of the week is expected to...

Saturday evening local firefighters responded to a medical emergency of a pregnant woman in labor who had not reached full-term. Upon arrival the first firefighters walked in to the mother who had jus...

WASHINGTON - Oklahoma’s Republican delegation gathered Monday in the Nations Capitol to celebrate the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 47th president of the United States. Trump, who won Oklahoma b...

Fire destroyed the Escalated Greens warehouse and offices at 1200 Birkes Road Thursday, Jan. 9, a plant where medical marijuana is produced and processed. The spectacular blaze and resulting smoke plu...

A whopping eight candidates have filed for the vacant Senate District 8 seat representing Okmulgee, Okfuskee and McIntosh counties in eastern Oklahoma. The special primary election for SD 8 has been s...

A traffic fatality has been attributed to the icy roads that covered the county much of the weekend, beginning Thursday and creating hazardous conditions through Saturday. The single vehicle accident ...

Thursday night - low of 41 Friday - high near 59, low 35 Saturday - high near 41, low 22

News that TransAlta had stopped plans to build a wind turbine farm in McIntosh County spread like the wind last week. “They called me Thursday and told me they pulled up stakes,” District 1 County Com...

The Eufaula School Board is asking voters to approve the issuance of almost $24 million in general obligation bonds for several projects, including an event center that would be used by the school as ...

“Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that, having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.” - Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) County Clerk Deena Farrow read t...

In mid-December, Checotah FFA member Jade McPeak, her mother, Emmy McPeak and FFA Advisor, Zachary Ilbery, traveled all expenses paid to Las Vegas, Nevada for the Intertribal Agriculture Council Annua...

The windchill in McIntosh County hit a low of 1 degree Sunday, but the bone-chilling weather didn’t cause any major problems other than staying warm. Leslie Phillips, County Emergency Director, said M...

A former employee of the McIntosh County Sheriff’s Department and Checotah Police Department faces multiple felonies following an erratic pursuit through Checotah by lawmen. Emma Lee Ellison, 34, a Ch...

There has never been a shortage on abuse, neglected and abandoned animals in any county and locals in Mc-Intosh County are working to make a difference in the lives of these poor animals one at a time...

Sports Editor Rodney Haltom is a large man with a heart almost as large as he is. Hungry people throughout the county where he has covered sports for over 15 years have not gone unnoticed by the man w...