The Wilkes Central girls and West Wilkes boys were victorious April 30 in the Foothills 2A Conference track finals at Forbush ...

The Wilkes Central soccer team captured its eighth straight conference title—and sixth consecutive unbeaten league slate—by ...

The East Wilkes baseball team rallied to take an 8-6 win over a familiar foe, South Stokes, in the opening round of the 1A playoffs, Tuesday night in Ronda.

West Wilkes sophomore Slater Meade finished second Monday in the 2A Midwest Region golf tournament at Pilot Knob Park Country ...

The league-champion West Wilkes tennis team was eliminated Monday by Hendersonville in the second round of the 2A dual team playoffs.

The Town of Wilkesboro’s proposed budget for the 2025-26 fiscal year leaves the tax rate unchanged instead of a lower “revenue neutral” rate in the wake of a recent county ...

SB 579 Transforming the High School Experience. This bill aims to expand career and college readiness pathways by allowing school districts to partner with community colleges and local employers, ...

After spending over six months contesting his narrow loss in the 2024 North Carolina Supreme Court election, Jefferson Griffin conceded the race on Wednesday morning following a federal judge’s ruling ...

At the level of state and local government, too, the prospect of unsteady hands at the tiller makes some economic actors seek safer returns elsewhere. A 2016 paper in the Journal of Monetary Economics ...

Right on schedule, Brood XIV of the 17-year periodical cicadas emerged in Wilkes, Caldwell and half a dozen other western North Carolina counties in late April and is growing larger.

Annual appropriations of funds allocated to Wilkes County under a nationwide settlement of lawsuits filed against opioid painkiller manufacturers and distributors are included in annual Wilkes County ...

The North Wilkesboro commissioners on Tuesday night approved a contract for dredging sand and silt from the town’s small ...