NewsOn6.com. TAHLEQUAH, Oklahoma -- SkyNews6 flew over the swollen Illinois River Tuesday and captured images of extensive damage to businesses and homes near Tahlequah.

Illinois River Faces Flooding In Oklahoma Cherokee County Emergency Management said the river should fall below flood stage by the next day. Monday, June 24th 2019, 8:55 pm ...

The river's watershed covers 1,657 square miles, with 758 in Benton, Washington and Crawford counties in Arkansas and 899 in northeast Oklahoma's Adair, Cherokee, Delaware and Sequoyah counties.

A Tulsa federal judge ruled that Oklahoma's Illinois River watershed continues to be harmed by poultry waste runoff. The ruling comes more than two years after the judge initially found the watershed ...

Passage of time, failed mediation doesn’t make Illinois River lawsuit moot, Oklahoma officials say. Farms’ practices said unchanged. November 11, 2023 at 7:27 a.m.

Illinois River timeline. 1970: Oklahoma designates the Illinois River a scenic waterway under the 1968 Wild and Scenic Rivers Act. 1988: Environmental Protection Agency permits Fayetteville, ...

In a news release Saturday morning, the commission says the several of its gages along the Illinois River are expected to see river levels rise at least 20 feet between now and Sunday and Monday ...

Illinois River Faces Flooding In Oklahoma Cherokee County Emergency Management said the river should fall below flood stage by the next day. Monday, June 24th 2019, 8:55 pm ...

In a lawsuit that’s reached 20 years in length, a Tulsa-based federal judge has ruled the Illinois River watershed still is being damaged by poultry waste runoff, more than two years after he ...