Basketball players from Erwin; Yancey County; Cherokee, Swain, and Reynolds school districts represented the WNC Lady Royals 7th grade basketball team and won the American Youth Basketball Association State Championship held recently in Concord.

The Flight traveled to Raleigh for the North Carolina D1 AAU 9th Grade State Tournament and came out with the championship trophy.

    Cherokee High School had their annual Athletic Banquet, on Friday, May 17 in the Chief Joyce Dugan Cultural Arts Center.   “Cherokee High School would like to thank Gloria Griffin for her attendance and a special thank you to all the trophy sponsors and...

The Western Carolina War Eagles (3-3) hosted their conference rivals, Tri-State Wildcats (4-4) on Saturday, May 18. Ray Kinsland Stadium was in for a treat. This matchup was to decide second place in the conference and decide who would make it to the IFL playoffs, and...

Cherokee standout Tavi Rivera will continue his wrestling career at Belmont Abbey College this fall. He signed a letter of intent on Thursday, May 16 to wrestle for the Division II school located in Belmont.

Robin and Stephan Swimmer attended the 55th annual Roadrunners Club of America Conference in Albuquerque.

GREENSBORO - The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians was well represented at the 1A State Championship track meet held at NC A&T in Greensboro on Friday, May 10.  In all, EBCI tribal members competed in six events at the meet. Cherokee’s Stevi Sutton took second...

Over 200 runners and walkers participated in the Cherokee Choices Mother’s Day 5K on Saturday, May 11 at the Acquoni Expo Center.