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 ...

Athletes and coaches from Wilkes County schools dominated the Mountain Valley Conference’s postseason awards for volleyball, ...

Events recognizing Veterans Day, which is Tuesday, Nov. 11, are planned next week.

Over $43.3 million was spent on capital and program investments at Wilkes Medical Center in the first 6 ½ years of Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist 30-year lease of the ...

The Republican-controlled N.C. Supreme Court isn’t fulfilling its vital role of maintaining checks and balances with ...

North Wilkesboro voters elected a new mayor (Randy Huffman) and two new commissioners (Sandra Espin and Alex Hamilton), while ...

The North Wilkesboro Rotary Club presented a check for $10,200 to Wilkes Family YMCA Executive Director Caroline Whitson at ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Monday that it will provide enough money for half of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits due in November, but Wilkes Department of So ...

A $5,000 Subaru Loves Learning grant recently was awarded to the East Wilkes High School media center. Crystal Blackburn, ...

An article in last week’s issue mentioned the Wilkes County sheriff’s race between Claude Doughton and C.G. Poindexter in 1942, bringing to mind a story involving Doughton that Dwight Nichols ...

A man was found deceased below his deer hunting stand in the vicinity of McCarter Road in southeastern Wilkes County Monday morning.

A countywide meeting to discuss Victory gardens for 1943 will be held at the county courthouse in Wilkesboro on Friday, Nov. 6, at 2 p.m. J.B. Snipes, Wilkes County extension agent, announced the ...