The Ashe County Sheriff’s Office on Dec. 10 announced felony charges filed against 29 people with Wilkes County addresses and seven others, mostly involving methamphetamine.

Three local entrepreneurs were chosen winners of $1,000 apiece in a competition at Wilkes Community College in which new and ...

Registration for garden plots at the Cub Creek Community Garden off South Bridge Street in Wilkesboro begins Jan. 5, said ...

Former and current Wilkesboro firefighters, family members of nearly all of the 17 men who were Wilkesboro fire chiefs and others helped celebrate the department’s 100th anniversary Saturday at the ...

West Wilkes High School’s marching band comes down Main Street of Wilkesboro in Christmas Parade.

The North Wilkes boys wrestling team split a pair of matches Tuesday in Moravian Falls, including a league-opening 77-6 romp over intercounty foe Wilkes Central.

Filing for local elected offices slowed considerably after an initial burst of activity when the period for throwing hats into the ring began Dec. 1.

Over $200,000 raised by the North Wilkesboro chapter of Speedway Children’s Charities (SCC) in 2025 was distributed to 14 ...

A woman lost her life in a house fire the morning of Thursday, Dec. 4, at 329 Old U.S. 421 in the Champion Fire District, ...

According to an announcement on the Wilkes County Schools website Sunday (Dec. 7), Wilkes schools will be closed for students on Monday, Dec. 8, and students will have a remote ...

North Carolina needs $120 billion worth of new investment in water, stormwater, and sewer systems, according to a recent report from the U.S. Water Alliance.

Sen. Eddie Settle of the Pleasant Hill community filed for his third two-year term in office on Dec. 1.