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A fire that broke out at Riverside Motel in Cherokee this week left people who had been staying there displaced.

A bill returning historical sites in Monroe County to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians passed the U.S. House of ...

For the first time in history, 10 Native American tribes from across South Carolina signed an alliance. And it came with the support of Gov. Henry McMaster. "Today we stand at a crossroads, where the ...

The alliance is aimed at leveraging the Catawba's resources to promote self-governance, land control, taxation and funding for S.C.'s state-recognized tribes.

The land has been held by the government for a few decades, but Rep. Chuck Fleischmann (R-TN) has been working on getting it ...

A fire broke out on Monday, Feb. 4 at Riverside Motel in Cherokee N.C. with no injuries, the Cherokee Fire and Rescue said in ...

The U.S. House of Representatives considers H.R.226, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Historic Lands Reacquisition Act, on February 4, 2025.

Residents in 39 counties who were directly impacted by Hurricane Helene have until March 10 to file for Disaster Unemployment ...

This funding will go into the Western North Carolina Small Business Initiative II, with a $20 million investment from the ...

Rep. Chuck Fleischmann praised the passage by the House of his bill H.R. 226, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Historic Lands Reacquisition Act. It passed the House by a unanimous voice vote. It marks the ...

A coal mine was the first to wreck the land. Now activists want to keep another extractive industry from taking root there: ...