Raylee Reason, 10 Vian Elementary Are you a good friend? Yes, I’m nice and I stand up for my friends. How would the world be different if animals could talk? Loud, because everything would be talking...

A Vian man has been charged with felony domestic assault and battery by strangulation, possession of controlled dangerous substance and unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia after authorities were...

Attorney General Mike Hunter announced the result of an 18-month investigation by a bipartisan, multi-state, working group of attorneys general and phone companies that have partnered to find meaningf...

The Webbers Falls Board of Trustees took care of several items during their regular monthly meeting on August 13. The trustees revisited a change order request by American Native Ventures that Webbers...

The Vian Board of Trustees hired a new police officer, and approved a Christmas event and a town cleanup during their regular monthly meeting on August 19. The trustees went into about a 30-minute exe...

The Gore Board of Trustees unanimously approved two ordinances, 2019-08-13-01 and 2019-08-13-02, during their monthly meeting on August 13, which will amend two marijuana ordinances. During police bus...

Editor’s note: If the age does not appear next to a name, it was not listed in the court record. Felony Docket Justin Armer, 18, Burglary second-degree; Burglary second-degree. Ashley Birth, 24, Muldr...

Beginning Sept. 1, single printed issues of the Vian Tenkiller News will go from 50¢ to 75¢. “The newspaper hasn’t had an increase in approximately 15 years,” Publisher Jeff Mayo said. When the newspa...

Gore Tops TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) meetings are held in Gore from 5 to 7 p.m. at Cornerstone Tabernacle, 401 W. 8th St., Gore. Info: 918-489-2155, 918-571-3353, 1-800-932-8677 or visit www.tops...

A third person has now been arrested and charged on a felony count of knowingly concealing stolen property after authorities discovered she was involved in a burglary scheme involving two other men wh...

Sequoyah County Sheriff Larry Lane, left, stands with Meghan Patton and Randy Taylor, both of whom were honored last week by the Oklahoma Sheriff’s Association convention. At far right is Undersheriff...

“I know your works… “And you have tested those who say they are apostles and are not, and have found them liars;… Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love” (Rev 2:1-7)....

Round Mountain Community Church Jesus had many things He wanted to say to His disciples, but they weren’t ready for it yet. He told them that when the Holy Spirit came, He would guide them into all tr...

High School Softball Vian’s high school softball team reached the Big 8 Conference Tournament title game by winning a combined four games on Thursday and Friday but the Lady Wolverines lost 10-2 to O...

Officials with the State Department of Transportation (ODOT) said anyone whose vehicle suffered damage recently from a pothole located at one of the bridge joints on I-40 can file a claim with the sta...

Vian Baptist Church John 8:7 -11 So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. And again he stooped ...

Indian Capital Technology Center was honored with the Oklahoma Association of Technology Centers’ Gold Star School Award at the 2019 Oklahoma Summit in Oklahoma City on Aug. 1. The Gold Star School Aw...

The Carl Albert State College Board of Regents recently named Jaime Henson the Interim Campus Director of CASC Sallisaw after Bryan Warner’s victory in his race for Deputy Chief of the Cherokee Nation...

I had a choice to make at one time in my life. I had a world view to release and turn away from. I had consequences to face from my choices of the past. I knew that I had made a conscious decision to ...

One thing Shelly Girten-Miller found lacking in Sallisaw was a full-fledged health food store, and she is planning to remedy that by the middle of September. Miller is in the process of making that a ...