The Wilkes County commissioners unanimously approved terminating county government’s contract with the Wilkes Rescue Squad ...

Special awards were given during an event marking the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Knotville Volunteer Fire ...

The 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Shepherds Crossroads Volunteer Fire Department was recognized Saturday with ...

Interim North Wilkesboro Town Manager Dylan Blankley on Tuesday night presented a draft $11.61 million budget for fiscal 2025-26, nearly 2% larger than the prior year’s budget.

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

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

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

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.

Mountain laurel blooms are especially prolific this spring on rocky slopes of the foothills and lower mountains of ...

The community now called Knotville was among areas of Wilkes County called “no man’s land” because they were outside of fire districts in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

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

Two Wilkes County youths received high scores in the N.C. Federation of Junior Music Clubs State Scholarship and Awards ...