West Wilkes quarterback Holden Gentry, left, drops back and looks for an open receiver after getting blocks from Carlin Grose (52) and senior Steven Holcomb (56) in Millers Creek ...

Stone Mountain State Park staff had to turn away visitors at the two park entrances for several hours Saturday due to ...

Josh, Taylor, Caroline, William, Molly, Chris, Stacy, Ross, Alina, and Justine share their heartfelt insights on God's love ...

Winter arrived in northwestern North Carolina early this week, bringing lows in the upper 20s in Wilkes County and in the ...

The North Wilkes varsity girls, who reached the 2A state basketball championship last winter, have one key cog to replace but have many returning players from last year’s stellar squad.

It was a season of new beginnings for Wilkes County high school teams this fall, with the slate wiped clean for all four schools competing in the new, split Mountain ...

Alison Krauss & Union Station is among artists announced Tuesday for the 37th MerleFest at Wilkes Community College in ...

JELD-WEN, a Charlotte-based door and window manufacturer with a plant in North Wilkesboro, announced early last week that it plans to cut about 850 jobs in its North American and ...

Discussions are continuing regarding construction of a sewer pump station at the intersection of Speedway Road and N.C. 115 for a sewer line extension to the North Wilkesboro Speedway.

Jim Martin, holding newspaper, stops in Wilkes County during his campaign for governor on Nov. 3, 1984. Martin, a Republican, got 61% of the Wilkes vote and defeated Democrat Rufus Edmisten in the Nov ...

The seven-mile stretch of the Blue Ridge Parkway from the Ice Rocks just south of Doughton Park to N.C. 18 in Laurel Springs in Alleghany County is open.

Wilkes County Retired School Personnel hosted the convention of Region 1B of the N.C. Retired School Personnel on Oct. 24 at ...