The North Wilkesboro commissioners are considering buying a 13,869-square-foot building at 711 Main Street for $2.2 million and leasing it to a company not yet identified at a reduced rate ...

The 27th annual Light Up Downtown is from 6-9 p.m., Friday, Nov. 22, in North Wilkesboro. The event includes turning on the Christmas lights for the holiday season in downtown, with the mayor ...

Ashe County is the nation’s top county in Christmas tree production, followed closely by Alleghany, Watauga and Avery ...

Timber felled by Tropical Storm Helene in western North Carolina is being utilized in a project developed through Interagency Recovery Coordination (IRC), a team of federal, state and local government ...

Officials say a driver has died after going around a barricade on a hurricane-damaged North Carolina highway that became a ...

Drug plane hearing A hearing on disposal of a plane loaded with 80 pounds of cocaine, seized by the Ashe Sheriff’s Office in ...

The 18th annual Wilkes County Band Exposition was Saturday on the football field at West Wilkes High School in Millers Creek.

A badly-burned body was found Tuesday morning in remains of a camper that was destroyed by fire in the Wilbar community, said Wilkes County Sheriff Chris Shew.

The East Surry football team denied West Wilkes a postseason berth after a 49-0 whitewashing of the Blackhawks, Friday night in Millers Creek.

Stone Mountain State Park in Wilkes and Alleghany counties will reopen for day use only on Friday, Nov. 15, after being closed since Sept. 27 for cleanup after Tropical Storm ...

The N.C. Highway Patrol responded to a fatal wreck on U.S. 321 North near Roby Martin Road in Caldwell County about 6 p.m. Nov. 6.

Appalachian State University is among three University of North Carolina System institutions named headquarter locations for NCInnovation’s applied research support, the UNC System announced Oct. 31.