The Charlotte-based Robert Haywood Morrison Foundation recently donated 749 acres on the Blue Ridge Mountain escarpment in ...

Carolyn Brookshire Pardue was recently presented the Dennis Sawyers Hall of Fame Award by the Winston-Salem Regional ...

Wilkes County Schools launched the “WCS Giving Hope” initiative to make a meaningful difference for students and staff in ...

Students from four Wilkes elementary schools went on a shopping spree for food at the IGA Marketplace store on N.C. 18 North ...

Wilkes is among several counties in the northwestern part of the state scheduled to switch to a paperless court system with eCourts software in July 2025, according to the Administrative ...

Discount retailer Big Lots, with a store on U.S. 421 West in Wilkesboro, announced Dec. 16 that it is filing for bankruptcy as it prepares to be acquired.

Interviews for this story took place before Tropical Storm Helene impacted rivers. “What I have seen in the Watauga River is ...

A story on page C4 about businesses that were awarded Downtown Boros Small Business Grants by the Wilkes Economic Development Corp. mistakenly omitted oner of the recipients, the Liberty Theatre ...

Y2K compliant” was a familiar term and imaginations were running wild concerning possible problems with everything from the electricity grid and nuclear power plants to home computers ...

A trailing candidate in a very close election for the N.C. Supreme Court asked that court on Dec. 18 to step in and prevent election officials from counting in his ...