Arvest Bank ranks highest among its peers in customer satisfaction with retail banking in both the Southwest and South Central Regions, according to the J.D. Power 2020 U.S. Retail Banking Satisfactio...

It's been 15 years since Checotah's own Carrie Underwood became an American Idol and she's still going strong and impressively becoming an American icon. This seven-time, Grammy-winning singer and son...

It’s difficult to say which weather hazard should claim top billing for April. Two late season freeze events made their pitch by battering the state’s winter wheat crop and fruit orchards, primarily o...

More than 35,000 Oklahoma small businesses received loans from the federal $2 trillion stimulus plan last week, but thousands more are stuck waiting for a refill for a program that blew through $350 b...

McIntosh County Court Report Felony Cases Rodney Holder: two counts of sodomy of victim under 16 years David Brend Liles: burglary in the first degree; larceny of domestic animals; malicious injury to...

The Department of Public Safety announced reopened for services to the public on Friday May 1 at select locations. "In accordance with Governor Stitt's 'Open Up and Recover Safely' Plan, we will be br...

Oklahoma cattle ranchers had been hoping this would be a banner year. COVID-19 took care of that. Now many of the ranchers and farmers across Oklahoma and the Midwest are praying they can just hang on...

Editor’s Note: Punctuation and spelling are as it originally appeared 114 years ago Checotah Times Friday, April 20, 1906 San Francisco in Ruins An Earthquake, Followed by Fire, Has Devastated the Cit...

State Sen. Roger Thompson is urging citizens throughout Senate District 8 to step up for their communities, their counties and the entire state by completing the 2020 U.S. Census. Thompson, R-Okemah, ...

Four F-16 jets from the Oklahoma Air National Guard’s 138th Fighter Wing flew over the Eufaula Indian Health Center Friday, a salute to healthcare workers who have put their lives on the line in the b...

APRIL 27-MAY 4 • Patsy J. Hannan: trespassing; petit larceny • Austin M. Roberts: operate MV without current license; decal; affix improper decal/tag; possession of CDS • Bradford Martin Sanders: poss...

Jim Lucas Public Library Branch Manager, Kathe Smith, shows off the new “StoryWalk” at the Checotah Sports Complex to Representative Avery Frix and Representative Randy Randleman along with Bradley Pe...

Checotah Intermediate School Spelling Bee winners were Jessica Ogden, right, who was the 1st place Champion and Jade McPeak, left, who won 2nd place Runner-Up. Both were scheduled to compete at the St...

From the U.S.-Mexico Border to military prisons in Alabama and Florida, the Chiricahua Apache tribe would find itself as the last Native American group to be relocated to Indian Territory. The descend...

The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma reminds everyone that even as we begin moving toward resumption of normal lives, fraudsters will continue their schemes to take...

Even in the best of times, social isolation is a significant problem. In Oklahoma, 291,713 people over the age of 50 live alone and are at higher risk of social isolation, which is now magnified by th...

All Oklahoma Historical Society (OHS) museums, historic sites and affiliates, which includes the Honey Springs Battlefield in Rentiesville, have been closed to the public since Tuesday, March 17. Thes...

The Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality recommends Oklahoma’s businesses closed for prolonged periods of time to flush water lines. As many buildings have had little to no occupancy during th...

Elevation normal, water turbid. For current elevation conditions go to the US Army Corps of Engineers website at https://www.swt-wc.usace.army.mil/ EUFA.lakepage.html. Crappie excellent on crickets, ...

The Greater Muskogee Manufacturing Alliance (GMMA) Education Scholarship deadline has been extended to May 15. The unprecedented closure of businesses and schools has prompted the extension. “By exten...