• Keep Your Cool at Home During Summer Heat Waves

    Keep Your Cool at Home During Summer Heat Waves

    August 11, 2026 - 05:36 | By News Staff
    (StatePoint) As heat waves become a regular feature of American summers, you can use these tips and strategies to cool every corner of your home, while keeping energy bills low: 1. Give your AC a wingman.
  • An ambulance parked in the bay of the Seminole Fire Department sits ready to respond to an emergency. Multiple ideas for funding countywide emergency services were pitched at Monday morning’s Seminole County Commissioners meeting. Ideas included the establishment of a 522 District and a membership-based service. (Staff photo by Bill Anderson)

    Officials Float EMS Funding Ideas

    August 11, 2026 - 05:36 | By Kori Good Staff Reporter
    The Seminole County Commissioners met this week, and several department heads throughout the county showed up to talk about the county’s Emergency Medical Services.Seminole County has long since been in need of equipment in order to handle emergency calls more efficiently.
  • Canadian Valley Electric Cooperative is accepting applications for Power Up, a program that is open to high school sophomores, juniors, and seniors who attend school within or surrounding CVEC’s service territory. Applications, which are available online, must be submitted by Sept. 11. (Photo provided)

    CVEC Accepting Applications For ‘Power up 2026’

    August 11, 2026 - 05:36 | By News Release
    Canadian Valley Electric Cooperative (CVEC) is now accepting applications for the Power Up clinic, an interactive career exploration experience designed to introduce high school students to the electric utility industry.
  • Chuck Hoskin Jr. speaks at Cherokee Nation Holiday in Tahlequah. (Photo by Sarah Liese/KOSU)

    Cherokee Nation Joins Seminole Nation in Banning Data Centers

    August 11, 2026 - 05:36 | By Thomas Pablo Kosu
    The Cherokee Nation issued a ban on hyperscale data center development for tribally owned and trust land on Wednesday.Cherokee Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. wrote that the Tahlequah-based tribe, which has the most enrolled tribal members in the U.S.
  • What is New for the 2026 College Football Season

    What is New for the 2026 College Football Season

    August 11, 2026 - 05:36 | By News Staff
    YAHOO SPORTS – Every college football season brings tweaks and changes and 2026 is no different. Here’s what’s new ahead of the ’pcomin’ season, and yes, the College Football Playoff format has once again been altered.

    Sports

    OKC Thunder Announce Pre-Season and Some Marquee Highlight Dates

    OKC Thunder Announce Pre-Season and Some Marquee Highlight Dates

    THUNDER WIRE - Just a few days before the NBA 2026-27 regular season rolls out, the Oklahoma City Thunder have announced their preseason schedule. They will play in five games from Oct. 6-15. Of those contests, two will be at home, another in Tulsa and the other two on the road.

    Columns

    Sister Would Prefer To Skip Abusive Brother’s Memorial

    Sister Would Prefer To Skip Abusive Brother’s Memorial

    DEAR ABBY: My brother “Earl” and I always had a very bad relationship. When I was 6 and Earl was 13, he molested me. Actually, he took my virginity. My mother caught him but whipped both of us and told me I should have known better than to allow it to happen. Fast-forward to when I was 17.

    Obituaries

    Phyllis Kilgore

    Phyllis Kilgore

    Kilgore Phyllis Ann Kilgore passed away Wednesday, August 5, 2026 at her home in Wewoka, Oklahoma at the age of 71. She is preceded in death by her parents, sister, Janice Kilgore, brother, Robert Kilgore Jr.
    Melvin Underwood

    Melvin Underwood

    Underwood Melvin (Mel) Ray Underwood, 87, longtime Seminole/Shawnee resident, passed away Thursday, August 6, 2026 at OU Medical Center, Oklahoma City. The only son of Nancy Edna (Mills) and Clarence Ray Underwood, he was born June 3, 1939, in Seminole, Oklahoma.

    This Week In Seminole County

    Monday-Friday⮚Heritage House Nutrition Center 210 College, Seminole. Now open for dine-in.-Saturday⮚America 250 Block Party sponsored by the Seminole Arts Council in downtown Seminole 5-9 p.m.⮚ Seminole Masonic Lodge monthly breakfast 7 – 2 p.m.

    Seminole Joins in 250th Birthday Celebration

    There will be plenty to do in Seminole this Saturday as the nation celebrates the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.To start the day, the Masonic Lodge (1515 W. Wrangler Blvd.) will hold its monthly breakfast at 7 a.m.

    OU Launches Sovereign Policy Intensive For Tribal Leaders

    The Native Nations Center for Tribal Policy Research at the University of Oklahoma will launch its first Sovereign Policy Intensive in September, a new program designed for elected tribal officials that focuses on understanding broadly relevant federal systems grounded in departmental structures,...

    This Week In Seminole County

    Monday-Friday⮚Heritage House Nutrition Center 210 College, Seminole. Now open for dine-in.-Saturday⮚Early voting 8 a.m. – 2 p.m. at the Seminole County Election Board, 200 S. Brown in Wewoka-Tuesday⮚Election Day. Polls open 7 a.m. – 7 p.m.

    This Week In Seminole County

    Monday-Friday⮚Heritage House Nutrition Center 210 College, Seminole. Now open for dine-in.-Monday⮚Graband go meal distribution 9 a.m. – noon at the Seminole Public Schools Administration building at 600 W. Strother (next scheduled event is Thursday, June 11)⮚ Butner Summer Pride 8 a.m. – 10 a.m.

    Task Force Raids Two Illegal Pot Grows in Prague

    Attorney General Gentner Drummond’s Organized Crime Task Force raided two illegal marijuana grow operations near Seminole County last week. According to a news release, on Wednesday, May 6 agents raided Benson Kush and Grand Growth, both in Prague.