Wilkes County’s newest food truck was officially launched last week with a goal of bringing multifaceted positive change, including by tackling food insecurity.

The Wilkes County Moonshiners summer baseball team is seeking individuals, couples and families to join its host family hospitality and post-game meal programs, according to a team spokesperson.

The Wilkes County-based Rendezvous Mountain Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution presented an Ashe County ...

The total number of reportable incidents in the Wilkes County Schools decreased slightly from the 2022-23 school year to the 2023-24 school year.

Fort Dobbs State Historic Site near Statesville will offer a glimpse of the harrowing days of the Anglo-Cherokee War on March ...

The N.C. Board of Elections asked the N.C. Supreme Court to use its power to bypass the state Court of Appeals and take up Republican Jefferson Griffin’s election challenge, which ...

Well before Helene’s floodwaters reached western North Carolina, an overwhelmed U.S. insurance market was already dropping coverage in places that are prone to disaster — and even in towns and ...

Ashley James Crouse, 53, of Granite Falls was sentenced on Feb. 13 to 120 months in prison and a lifetime of supervised release for possession and receipt of child sexual ...

This year’s inductees in Wilkes Heritage Museum’s Blue Ridge Music Hall of Fame are the Krüger Brothers, Dock Boggs, Riley Baugus, Sheila Kay Adams, Rouder Records Founders, Gerald Anderson.

The percentage of students in the Wilkes County Schools who were chronically absent almost doubled from the 2018-19 academic year (just before the COVID-19 pandemic) to 2021-22, when schools had ...

Gerald Lankford of North Wilkesboro deservedly will be inducted into the Wilkes County Hall of Fame.

An ice storm on Feb. 12 and strong wind gusts on Feb. 16 left tens of thousands of homes and businesses in Wilkes and other northwestern North Carolina counties without ...