At approximately 5:20 p.m. on Saturday, June 27, Great Smoky Mountains National Park Rangers responded to a drowning in progress on the Oconaluftee River behind the Mountain Farm Museum in Cherokee.

  ASHEVILLE - Chief U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger sentenced Tanner Moren Eagle Larch, 30, of Cherokee, on Thursday, June 25 to 92 months in prison and three years of supervised release for a firearms offense, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the...

Following decades of threat to their cultural homeland, the Blackfeet Nation on Thursday, June 25 released a legislative proposal to permanently protect the Badger-Two Medicine as a “Cultural Heritage Area.”

The Graham County Health Department, in collaboration with the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Public Health and Human Services and the Cherokee Indian Hospital Authority, identified on Wednesday, June 24 a Graham County resident who tested positive for COVID-19 in the county and is now isolating in their home.

The USDA Forest Service has awarded grants to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and Foothills Conservancy of North Carolina from the Community Forest Program, which supports working forests that provide benefits like clean water, wildlife habitat, educational opportunities, and public access for recreation.

The meeting began with bringing in Howard Wahnetah and Ashford Smith for a CCS Finance update.