Wilkes Central’s Ava Redies and Morgan Woodard each had a pair of second-place track finishes Friday in the 70-team Mount Tabor Mile & Throwing Thunder in Winston-Salem.

The Little Brushy Mountain Fire Department Fire District’s rating was improved from a 9 to a 5 (on a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 ...

The 55th annual Carlton-Howell family reunion starts at 10 a.m. Sunday, March 29, at Thankful Baptist Church on N.C. 18 South in the Boomer community.

A Wilkes County man remains in the Cabarrus County Jail in Concord with a $505,000 bond after being arrested and charged by the Cabarrus Sheriff’s Office with one felony count ...

The last major furniture manufacturer based in Wilkes County has new ownership.

The Mountain Homespun Fiber Guild and the Blue Ridge Fiber Fest in Sparta are partnering on a project inspired by this year’s festival theme, “From Ridge to Reef.” ...

The Wilkes County commissioners voiced concern during their March 17 meeting about the county’s fiscal 2024-25 audit report being released on social media well before they first saw it that ...

When Congress passed its budget-reconciliation bill last summer, it created a bunch of problems for North Carolina policymakers — thank goodness!

The Brushy Mountain peach crop was damaged by not as severely as first feared by sub-freezing temperatures within the eight-hour period ending about 7 a.m. Tuesday, March 17 and the ...

N.C. Department of Transportation personnel were scheduled to begin replacing a 54-year-old bridge where Preacher Field Road crosses Big Elkin Creek in the Pleasant Ridge community of eastern Wilkes C ...

Expo for sixth grade and 11th grade students in the Wilkes County school and other students is from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Thursday, March 26. The event will feature six zones with hands-on, ...

Wilkes County government’s unassigned fund balance (uncommitted funds) fell from 33% of yearly budgeted general fund expenditures at the end of fiscal 2024-25 to about 27% now, according to informatio ...