Wilkes Art Gallery will accept submissions for the 45th annual Blue Ridge Overview Photography Competition and Exhibition on from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Jan 2 and from 10 a.m.

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.

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.

Wilkes Central athletes set four new indoor track school records Dec. 2 at the Phoenix Academy Invitational at JDL Fast Track in Winston-Salem.

Every December, about the time USPS trucks zip across the county like determined reindeer, it’s clear how complicated Christmas has become. There are gadgets with AI, toys that require passwords, ...

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New North Carolina laws that took effect on Dec. 1 allow certain people to carry guns in private schools, regulate the lanes truck drivers can use and crack down on ...

The seventh annual Wilkes Literacy Gingerbread House Festival at the 1915 building on Main Street, Wilkesboro, Dec. 6 and 7 ...

Union Baptist Church on Traphill-Union Road in Traphill will have a Christmas candlelight service starting at 6 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 21.

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.

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 ...

Elite Cheer and Hip Hop teams will kick off their season on Dec. 13–14 as they travel to Tennessee to compete in the Great Smoky ...