The Town of Wilkesboro’s financial picture is slowly getting better but has room for much more improvement, according to an auditor who addressed the Wilkesboro Town Council during its regular ...

Students in the Wilkes County Schools who advanced to the Regional Science Fair at Watauga High School in Boone were ...

The Wilkes Sheriff’s Office arrested a man on Jan. 12 on four counts each of possession of a weapon of mass destruction, manufacturing a weapon of mass destruction and assembling ...

The annual Martin Luther King Prayer Breakfast, sponsored by Men in Christ, is from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m., Jan. 19, at the Stone Center on Cherry Street, North Wilkesboro.

Franklin Graham, president of Samaritan’s Purse and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Assocation, on Monday issued a call for a national time of prayer at noon on Wednesday, Jan. 14.

A 9.7% drop in Wilkes County’s occupancy tax collections from the first five months of fiscal 2024-25 to the same period in 2025-26 is primarily due to Tropical Storm Helene ...

Staff and congregants of Beach Road Church in Southport began the new year with a public reading of the entire Bible in the ...

They will be honored during the 18th annual Blue Ridge Music Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony at the museum on Saturday, March ...

An N.C. Highway Patrol trooper has been credited with providing life-saving first aid to a shooting victim after making a ...

Building Skills for a Successful Growing Season” will be offered at the Wilkes Cooperative Extension Service, with sessions on Jan. 21, Feb. 18, March 18 and April 8.

An information technology and business process outsourcing company that opened in downtown North Wilkesboro in 2025 by far ...

The North Wilkesboro commissioners discussed the potential listing and sale of surplus, town-owned properties during their Jan. 6 meeting.