Great Smoky Mountains National Park has reached a biodiversity milestone with the discovery and documentation of 20,000 species of plants, animals, and other organisms.

The following people were arrested by the Cherokee Indian Police Department and booked into the Anthony Edward Lossiah Justice Center. It should be noted that the following defendants have only been charged with the crimes listed and should be presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Addresses and those files with no charge data have been redacted.

Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. proposed the largest investment in language programs in the tribe’s history and detailed even more historic initiatives during his first State of the Nation Address Saturday.

The next census will take place next year, and the 2020 Census Cherokee Complete Count Committee is committing itself to an educational outreach strategy to make sure that everyone residing on tribal lands of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) is counted.  

U.S. Attorney Andrew Murray announced on Monday, Aug. 26 that Derek Shawn Pendergraft, 22, of Asheville, has pleaded guilty to one count of first degree murder and two counts of aggravated sexual abuse resulting in death. U.S. Magistrate Judge W. Carleton Metcalf accepted Pendergraft’s guilty plea in federal court in Asheville.

Tribal members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) packed into the Snowbird Community Complex on Wednesday, Aug. 21 to honor the late Diamond Brown Jr.

New Western Carolina University (WCU) Chancellor Kelli Brown was in Cherokee on the evening of Thursday, Aug. 22 as part of her ‘Welcome Tour.’

Great Smoky Mountains National Park rangers responded to a report of man in cardiac distress near the Deep Creek Campground and Picnic Area at approximately 4:00 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 22. Kirk Lazar, age 70, of Evans, Ga. was hiking with his wife on the Juney Whank...