Traphill Fire Department will host a spaghetti supper on Saturday, Feb. 21 at 6 p.m., followed by bingo games starting at 7 p.m. Adam Collins will preach at Garden Creek Baptist Church in Stone ...

With severe winter weather about to arrive, about 16 N.C. Highway Patrol troopers in Wilkesboro-based Troop F, District II (Wilkes, Ashe and Alleghany counties) gathered on Jan. 22 to cut, ...

Count, coordinated by the Northwest N.C. Continuum of Care (CoC), will be conducted in the High Country counties of Wilkes, Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Mitchell, Watauga ...

Small Business of the Year an other award recipients were announced at the Wilkes Chamber of Commerce’s 80th annual Membership Celebration on Jan. 22 at the John A. Walker Center.

The High Country Council of Governments announced that it will accept applications for the N.C. Housing Finance Agency’s 2027 Essential Single Family Rehabilitation Loan Pool (ESFRLP27) program from ...

Wilkes County Schools were closed Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of this week due to icy conditions on local roads.

North Carolina is once again demonstrating the folly of holding primary elections in March. How long will it take to acknowledge that nobody wants to vote on March 3?

In places where governments are smaller, taxes are lower, regulations are lighter, and property rights are more secure, people tend to be more generous, trustful and tolerant.

The N.C. Department of Transportation is making progress clearing Wilkes County roads in the aftermath of a 2-inch-deep sleet ...

Interstates and four-lane divided primary routes have first priority under the N.C. Department of Transportation’s written snow clearing policy.

Several days of preparations amid fluctuating forecasts culminated with Wilkes County dodging the severe impact Winter Storm Fern had on other parts of the nation.

Wilkes County government will open an emergency shelter at the Wilkes County Agricultural Center at 416 Executive Drive, Wilkesboro, at 6 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 24, due to an incoming winter ...