An announcement on the Wilkes County Schools website stated, “With icy road conditions reported throughout the county this morning, Wilkes County Schools will operate on a remote learning day today, ...

A large home near the Blue Ridge Parkway's Sheets Gap Overlook in the northern edge of Wilkes County was destroyed by fire late Saturday night.

Rep. Blair Eddins of Purlear filed for reelection to his second term representing the 94th District in the N.C. House on Dec.

The Wilkes County commissioners appointed Makayla Norman of the Wilbar community to a vacant seat for region four of the Advisory Board of the Wilkes Voluntary and Wilkes Enhanced Voluntary ...

An angel accented the top of our family’s Christmas tree each year when I was growing up. This regal figure featured a golden gown, wings and a halo. Angels have ...

According to an announcement on the Wilkes County Schools website Sunday (Dec. 7), Wilkes schools will be closed for students on Monday, Dec. 8, and students will have a remote ...

North Carolina veterinary officials are asking horse owners in the state to watch for symptoms of Equine Herpes Myeloencephalopathy (EHM) following diagnoses of multiple horses with the highly contagi ...

We can make Jesus more important in our lives by putting Christ in the center of all we do,” says Nathaniel, 8. “We do this by finding pleasure in studying ...

A woman lost her life in a house fire the morning of Thursday, Dec. 4, at 329 Old U.S. 421 in the Champion Fire District, ...

The North Wilkes varsity girls rallied past Davie County, 41-39, in hardwood action Tuesday in Hays. The Vikings trailed by ...

A couple living in a doublewide mobile home at 1071 Mulberry Road in the Mulberry-Fairplains Fire District awoke Sunday ...

Hardin Kennedy was elected new chairman and Evan Handy was elected new vice chairman of the Wilkes County commissioners ...