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.

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Wilkes County Hall of Fame Governing Board recently awarded $31,770 in grants the arts education, physical education and athletics in the Wilkes County Schools.

Here’s the best bets for fun things to do this week in Wilkes County and the Town of Elkin. The LOST WOMBAT tavern in North ...

A growing shortage of teachers and other personnel issues impacting the Wilkes County Schools were discussed during a day-long Wilkes Board of Education retreat Friday.

The Wilkes County Schools’ looming “financial cliff” was explained in greater detail during a day-long Wilkes Board of Education retreat Friday in the board’s meeting room in North Wilkesboro.

Carolina West Wireless, a Wilkesboro-based wireless carrier, hosted Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr when he recently assessed damage from Tropical Storm Helene and recovery eff ...