George Gwyn Church, local businessman, Air Force veteran and North Wilkesboro mayor from 2005 through 2009, died July 17 at ...

A 12-mile section of the Blue Ridge Parkway south of Blowing Rock was reopened Monday after being damaged by Tropical Storm Helene in late September 2024.

The candidate filing period ended at noon Friday with three people running for North Wilkesboro mayor, five for two North Wilkesboro commissioner seats and three for two Wilkesboro Town Council ...

The Wilkes Heritage Museum announced the release of a new book titled ,“The Robert Cleveland Log Home.” ...

It is with optimism that I hope there is still time for the county commissioners to support our public library. I am writing to you as a Wilkes County Library ...

The theft of two cables underneath two 53-foot-long trailers in a break-in at Barnes & Severt Lumber Co. on N.C. North between Wilkesboro and Millers Creek was reported on July 18. The cables are ...

North Carolina is home to over 15,000 registered homeowners associations (HOAs), ranking fifth in the nation. These associations govern communities that house more than 3 million North Carolinians—nea ...

In June 2025, the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) confirmed the first case of measles this year in North ...

In celebration of historian David McCullough’s July 7 birthday, The Reading Trap, our branch library’s book club, embarked on an ambitious literary journey: a “big Book Read” of Truman, McCullough’s ...

Months of training and other preparations in the Wilkes County Courthouse culminated Monday with changeover to eCourts, a paperless records system mandated statewide by the N.C. Supreme Court.

Elisa Phillips, Wilkes Cooperative Extension Service family and consumer sciences agent, and Jared Belk, health educator with the Wilkes Health Department, will lead A Matter of Balance classes at ...