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 total number of reportable incidents in the Wilkes County Schools decreased slightly from the 2022-23 school year to the 2023-24 school year. The number of dropouts also decreased in that period.

An ice storm on Feb. 12 and strong wind gusts on Feb. 16 left tens of thousands of homes and businesses in Wilkes and other northwestern North Carolina counties without electricity.

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.

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 ...

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.