The candidate filing period ended at noon Friday with three people running for North Wilkesboro mayor, five for two North Wilkesboro commissioner seats and three for two Wilkesboro Town Council ...

George Gwyn Church, local businessman, Air Force veteran and North Wilkesboro mayor from 2005 through 2009, died July 17 at ...

The theft of two cables underneath two 53-foot-long trailers in a break-in at Barnes & Severt Lumber Co. on N.C. North between Wilkesboro and Millers Creek was reported on July 18. The cables are ...

The Wilkes Heritage Museum announced the release of a new book titled ,“The Robert Cleveland Log Home.” ...

North Carolina is home to over 15,000 registered homeowners associations (HOAs), ranking fifth in the nation. These associations govern communities that house more than 3 million North Carolinians—nea ...

It is with optimism that I hope there is still time for the county commissioners to support our public library. I am writing to you as a Wilkes County Library ...

In celebration of historian David McCullough’s July 7 birthday, The Reading Trap, our branch library’s book club, embarked on an ambitious literary journey: a “big Book Read” of Truman, McCullough’s ...

A 12-mile section of the Blue Ridge Parkway south of Blowing Rock was reopened Monday after being damaged by Tropical Storm Helene in late September 2024.