Authorities responded to an incident with shots fired in the parking lot of the Wilkes Family YMCA in N.C. 268 West in ...

One of the two lanes of U.S. 21 on the Blue Ridge Mountain escarpment in northeastern Wilkes County will be closed for retaining wall repairs starting July 21 unless delayed ...

Appalachian State University researchers have identified where enslaved people were buried on the grounds of Fort Defiance, ...

The Ronda commissioners reached a stalemate when they tried to decide who to appoint to serve the remaining portion of one of two vacant seats on their board Tuesday night.

A man was arrested on 17 felony and misdemeanor charges after an eight-mile, high-speed chase in and near Wilkesboro ended ...

A Miniature Art Exhibition open at the Wilkes Art Gallery in downtown North Wilkesboro on Friday, July 18, and ...

Hugh Chatham Health and Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist on Tuesday announced Hugh Chatham Health has officially joined Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist, part of the third-largest nonprofit health s ...

While not talked about as much as other sportfish species in North Carolina, walleye numbers and angler success stories are ...

Two encounters with foxes that apparently were rabid, one in which a man was attacked and the other in which a dog was attacked, occurred Saturday on the upper campus ...

Republicans now have a 3-2 majority on the Wilkes and other county boards of election in North Carolina as a result of legislation passed in late 2024, thus reversing the ...

The Wilkes Economic Development Corp. is conducting an online survey as part of the process of updating the organization’s strategic plan.

The filing period for people seeking seats on the North Wilkesboro and Wilkesboro governing bodies this year began Monday, with two incumbents and two newcomers filing by press time this ...