The way the economy has evolved since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has been unusual in many respects, starting with a historically deep (but brief) recession and eventually leading ...

Claude Shew Jr., vice chairman of the Wilkes Soil and Water Conservation District Board of Supervisors, gave an update on efforts to start a Wilkes County farmers market somewhere along ...

Using my mirrors to look behind me, the street showed cars parked on both sides. According to my dispatcher, I needed to deliver my empty trailer to the loading dock ...

Although a clear conscience before God and people won’t exclude you from trials, it will allow you to live with inner freedom apart from guilt. “There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience,” says ...

Advocate Health, which includes Wilkes Regional Medical Center in North Wilkesboro, announced last week that it will begin canceling all judgment liens previously placed on homes and real estate as ...

The Wilkes Sheriff’s Officer is investigating a large number of recent thefts.

A constitutional law professor and advocate of the poor called the 2024 election a “great battle to save American democracy” ...

Motorists can expect a full closure of the Blue Ridge Parkway from Milepost 261 (N.C. 16 North at the Wilkes-Ashe county line ...

The Republican executive committees of Wilkes and Alexander counties on Sept. 19 jointly voted to recommend that Blair Eddins serve the remaining portion of Jeffrey Elmore’s term as representative for ...

Playing in a rare best-of-three format, the East Wilkes varsity volleyball team downed Starmount after taking a third-set tiebreaker Tuesday in Boonville.

Like in most communities across this land, there’s an affordable housing crisis in Wilkes County.

Republican Blair Eddins, 53, of Purlear and Democrat Steve Moree, 67, of Wilksboro, candidates for the 94th District in the N ...