Wright, superintendent of Wilkes County schools for 34 years, died at age 70 Friday evening at the Wilkes hospital. He retired as superintendent 23 days earlier and had planned to spend his days in ...

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When I recently reviewed my columns of past years, I was surprised I hadn’t written about “the debt” — meaning the national debt — in six years.

Authorities responded to an incident with shots fired in the parking lot of the Wilkes Family YMCA in N.C. 268 West in ...

One of the two lanes of U.S. 21 on the Blue Ridge Mountain escarpment in northeastern Wilkes County will be closed for retaining wall repairs starting July 21 unless delayed ...

Appalachian State University researchers have identified where enslaved people were buried on the grounds of Fort Defiance, ...

A Miniature Art Exhibition open at the Wilkes Art Gallery in downtown North Wilkesboro on Friday, July 18, and ...

A man was arrested on 17 felony and misdemeanor charges after an eight-mile, high-speed chase in and near Wilkesboro ended ...

The Appalachian State University Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies (CJHPS) will host the 23rd Annual Martin and Doris Rosen Symposium from July 10-16 on the Boone campus.

The Ronda commissioners reached a stalemate when they tried to decide who to appoint to serve the remaining portion of one of two vacant seats on their board Tuesday night.

A Wilkes Sheriff’s Office deputy shot a man during an incident Saturday in Moravian Falls.

Strong winds left a swath of damage in the Pleasant Hill community of eastern Wilkes County on the afternoon of Thursday, ...