The Cherokee Nation honored 16 citizens and four community organizations who made significant contributions over the past year during the recent 2014 State of the Nation Awards Banquet.

ATLANTA – September is National Preparedness Month, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) encourages everyone to make disaster preparedness a priority.

We are off to a busy start for the fall season. We finished up our paperwork and scrapbook for the Community Judging Competition. This year the scrapbook was dedicated to our wonderful and devoted chairman Samuel Panther. He has been our chairman for 10 years.

The deadline to submit direct deposit forms for the December 2014 per capita distribution will be Wednesday, Oct. 1.  All direct deposit forms must be notarized.  Bring a voided check for deposit into your checking account or a statement from your bank indicating your...

Meshay Long wasn’t planning on following in her older sister Alisha’s Tar Heel footsteps. The junior from Cherokee had her eyes set on Michigan and was thinking she would do better at a different school.

Gizzy, a male Chihuahua mix, went missing from the upper Wrights Creek Fork area this past week.  He does not have a collar on. If you see him or have any information on where he might be, please call Nonnie Crowe 497-7990. He is really missed.

Jessica Greer Morris, executive director and co-founder of Girl Be Heard, a New York City-based theater group dedicated to raising awareness about sexual violence and other issues, will be the keynote speaker for “Take Back the Night” on Wednesday, Sept. 17, at Western Carolina University.