As of Nov. 16, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) had approved $238 million to eligible households and ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming White House chief of staff formerly was married to a Wilkes County native.

History is often recorded physically, yet much can be learned through the old-fashioned tradition of storytelling, said Mark Coltrain, Appalachian State University oral historian and associate ...

Ashe County is the nation’s top county in Christmas tree production, followed closely by Alleghany, Watauga and Avery ...

The North Wilkesboro commissioners are considering buying a 13,869-square-foot building at 711 Main Street for $2.2 million and leasing it to a company not yet identified at a reduced rate ...

The 27th annual Light Up Downtown is from 6-9 p.m., Friday, Nov. 22, in North Wilkesboro. The event includes turning on the Christmas lights for the holiday season in downtown, with the mayor ...

Officials say a driver has died after going around a barricade on a hurricane-damaged North Carolina highway that became a ...

Timber felled by Tropical Storm Helene in western North Carolina is being utilized in a project developed through Interagency Recovery Coordination (IRC), a team of federal, state and local government ...

Drug plane hearing A hearing on disposal of a plane loaded with 80 pounds of cocaine, seized by the Ashe Sheriff’s Office in ...

The Pine Lake Prep soccer team ended the Wilkes Central season on Tuesday, throwing a 9-0 clean sheet over the Eagles in ...

The 18th annual Wilkes County Band Exposition was Saturday on the football field at West Wilkes High School in Millers Creek.

Wilkes County was at the center of a multi-county area that led North Carolina in percentage of votes cast for Republican Donald Trump in the 2024 and 2020 general elections.