During the Hurricane Helene and its immediate aftermath, multiple fire departments had to deal with one key fact: they were ...

The Watauga Fire Department responded to a gas leak Thursday morning near Watauga Elementary School, city officials said in a news release. The leak was outside the school and was able to be ...

Polls opened at 9 a.m. today for early voting in Watauga County. Polls are open until Nov. 2 at 3 p.m.  There are six early ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has deployed a second mobile laboratory to Watauga County to support the North ...

Brennan is the editor of the Watauga Democrat in Boone ... off free copies of the newspapers at central distribution areas like community centers and fire departments. “I went to one fire department ...

Thursday in favor of changing the hours of early voting in Watauga County. The new hours will be as follows: Oct. 17-19: 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Oct. 20: 1 p.m. – 5 p.m. Oct. 21-26: 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Oct. 27: 1 ...

Members of the Wilkes Rescue Squad and several Wilkes County fire departments completed a week of storm-recovery work in ...

Many towns in the western part of the state are still recovering from Helene's devastation. Here are progress updates as of ...

I took them out to all the fire departments out there, and I would just ask them how the roads were until I got to the next one. I met people who told me that this was the first news they had gotten ...

The Watauga Fire Department responded to a gas leak Thursday morning near Watauga Elementary School, city officials said in a news release. The leak was outside the school and was able to be quickly ...

Brennan is the editor of the Watauga Democrat newspaper in Boone ... at central distribution areas like community centers and fire departments. “I went to one fire department and they said ...