The late Alvin Wagoner, engineer and chaplain with Mulberry-Fairplains Fire/Rescue, was announced as a recipient of the N.C.

Botanist Riley Sain is leading a 1.4-mile, two-hour hike every Saturday in August on the Fodderstack Trail in the Blue Ridge ...

A man was sentenced to between 94 months and 234 months in prison after he pleaded guilty while not admitting guilt to two ...

The Wilkes County Public Library, in collaboration with Wilkes Friends of the Library, Wilkes Art Gallery and N.C. Arts ...

The 94th reunion of the descendants of David Malcolm and Fannie Bowers Cleary of Hays was held on the afternoon of Aug. 3 at Brookridge retirement community in Winston-Salem, where ...

It’s one of the most highly anticipated times of the year – the start of the school year and the coming of fall high school sports. The excitement, however, is ...

The Wilkes Cooperative Extension Service will have a workshop on growing strawberries in western North Carolina from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Aug. 21 at the Wilkes Agricultural Center at ...

The charter of Blue Ridge Mountain Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1142 in North Wilkesboro remains temporarily suspended as new post officers receive training in VFW policies and procedures, said ...

The Wilkes County commissioners approved authorizing Pleasant Hill Fire & Rescue to provide heavy rescue services during their meeting on Aug. 5.

A renewed debate about the three -isms of socialism, communism and capitalism has been sparked by a proclaimed socialist candidate, who some claim is actually a communist, running in the ...

Rain has delayed completion of some high school athletic facility improvements, said Bergie Speaks, Wilkes County Schools director of facilities and construction, during the Wilkes Board of ...