Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt spent the past two days begging for more federal money to help the state recover from a historic winter storm. “This has been an important trip because I wanted to let our fe...

Jerry McPeak, Warner, has completed his term on the 2021 American Farmers & Ranchers/Oklahoma Farmers Union (AFR/OFU) Policy Committee, a subset of the AFR/OFU Cooperative membership that sets yearly ...

Wesley Robert “Bob” Mote, M.D., was soft-spoken and private. A U.S. Air Force physician for 39 years, Mote still lived in the 1,200-square-foot Moore home he purchased in the ‘60s when he died at age ...

The House has passed education bills that would allow Oklahoma students to transfer between public school districts at any time and that change the school funding formula to make money follow the stud...

The Oklahoma House of Representatives Insurance Committee today passed legislation to cap the cost of insulin for many Oklahomans with Type 1 diabetes. House Bill 1019’s author, Rep. Rande Worthen, R-...

House Minority Leader Emily Virgin, D-Norman, released the following statement after two major school transfer and funding bills passed off the House floor last week. “While the stated rationale for H...

Oklahoma is on the verge of overhauling its Medicaid program and changing how about a quarter of the state’s population receives health care. Gov. Kevin Stitt and the Oklahoma Health Care Authority an...

Today United States Attorney Brian J. Kuester announced that he has submitted his resignation to President Biden, effective at 11:59 p.m. on Feb. 28. It is customary for newly elected presidents to as...

The state of Indian nations is strong, but the federal government still needs to “come to terms with the right of tribal Nations to chart their own course and their rightful place,” a tribal leader sa...

Rep. Randy Randleman, R-Eufaula, secured passage Wednesday of a bill to allow for more mental health services in eastern Oklahoma. Under rules implemented by the Oklahoma Dept. of Mental Health and Su...

More than half a year after voters approved a state question that will require Oklahoma to offer health coverage to more than 200,000 low-income adults, state officials are still unsure how they’ll pa...

Ake, Roger M. Albright, Austin Michael Allen, Edmond Monte Allen, Justin Lee Almeida, Louis Ernest III Anderson, Gary Don Anderson, Teddy Bruce Arnold, Charles Wayne Bahe, Mandy Gail Baker, Jerry Beal...

115 Years Ago: Checotah Times • November 2, 1906 New Creek Schools A list of twenty schools of the Creek Nation has been submitted to the Department of the Interior. The list includes four new schools...

BBQ fundraiser Friday, March 5 The Checotah Priesthood Motorcycle Ministry will be delivering lunch next Friday, March 5 or come pick it up at noon at Faith Church, 389 S. Paul Carr Drive, Checotah. P...

The “Community Garden” is coming along at the Jim Lucas Checotah Public Library. Branch Manager, Kathe Smith, arrived with some of the fruit trees that will be placed around the Community Garden. Smit...

Local restaurant owner Kathy Cox had to think outside of the box this past week when students from Harding University in Searcy, AR needed to be fed some June’s famous fried boneless chicken. “We had...

A lost lab mix male dog found his way to Porches and Pastures Real Estate off of Texanna Rd and Highway 69 during the snowstorm. Stephanie Fine has placed the pup in a foster home until ownership can ...

Volunteer and local artist Iris Park worked last week to put up her paintings with the help of Heartland Heritage board member Jerri Holder who also wears the hat of Checotah Chamber of Commerce offic...

The 2021 Checotah Local Livestock Premium Dinner and Sale was a huge success on Monday, Feb. 22 for the Checotah 4H and FFA exhibitors. Josheb English with the Checotah Masonic Lodge presented the Pr...

Oklahoma experienced a historic cold air event during February, boosting the month into the company of other legendary frozen periods from calendar pages long torn away and discarded. February 1895, F...