The Wilkes Sheriff’s Office charged a man with one count each of financial card theft, buying/selling/distributing food ...

As of Nov. 16, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) had approved $238 million to eligible households and ...

History is often recorded physically, yet much can be learned through the old-fashioned tradition of storytelling, said Mark Coltrain, Appalachian State University oral historian and associate ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming White House chief of staff formerly was married to a Wilkes County native.

Ashe County is the nation’s top county in Christmas tree production, followed closely by Alleghany, Watauga and Avery ...

The North Wilkesboro commissioners are considering buying a 13,869-square-foot building at 711 Main Street for $2.2 million and leasing it to a company not yet identified at a reduced rate ...

The 27th annual Light Up Downtown is from 6-9 p.m., Friday, Nov. 22, in North Wilkesboro. The event includes turning on the Christmas lights for the holiday season in downtown, with the mayor ...

Officials say a driver has died after going around a barricade on a hurricane-damaged North Carolina highway that became a ...

Timber felled by Tropical Storm Helene in western North Carolina is being utilized in a project developed through Interagency Recovery Coordination (IRC), a team of federal, state and local government ...

Drug plane hearing A hearing on disposal of a plane loaded with 80 pounds of cocaine, seized by the Ashe Sheriff’s Office in ...

The Pine Lake Prep soccer team ended the Wilkes Central season on Tuesday, throwing a 9-0 clean sheet over the Eagles in ...

Wilkes County was at the center of a multi-county area that led North Carolina in percentage of votes cast for Republican Donald Trump in the 2024 and 2020 general elections.