The Wilkes County Schools’ looming “financial cliff” was explained in greater detail during a day-long Wilkes Board of Education retreat Friday in the board’s meeting room in North Wilkesboro.

New Jersey tea, the 2013 North Carolina Wildflower of the Year, is among additions to this year’s Wilkes Cooperative ...

Jeffrey Duncan has been appointed as the new warden of Wilkes Correctional Center, a minimum custody state prison on N.C. 115 ...

Seven people were inducted into the North Wilkes High School Viking Hall of Fame on Jan. 30 at the Stone Center.

The American Red Cross is urging donors to give blood or platelets in February to help build up supplies after thousands of donations went uncollected in January due to severe ...

The Wilkes Community College fall semester dean’s list and president’s list have been announced.

Wilkes County Schools hosted the annual Poetry Out Loud Competition on Jan. 28 at the Stone Center in North Wilkesboro.

The North Wilkes varsity girls routed Wilkes Central for the second time in seven days on Tuesday, rolling to a 64-11 ...

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Charlotte-based Rumbao Dance Company will provide salsa dance lessons for a dinner event on March 8 at Wilkes Community College’s John A. Walker Center in Wilkesboro ...

An Alexander County teenager was seriously injured when the Beta 300 two-stroke trail bike he was operating ran off gravel Pores Knob Road in Moravian Falls Sunday evening.

A women criticized recent action by the state legislature that increased state funds for private school vouchers and then raised questions about diversity, equity and inclusion during the Feb. 3 ...