Franklin Graham, president of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Boone-based Samaritan’s Purse, met and prayed with Volodymyr Zelensky, president of Ukraine, on May 28 in Berlin.

The North Carolina Center for Resilience & Learning announced the release of the Education Preparation Programs Trauma-Informed Practices Toolkit, designed for educator preparation programs across ...

Wilkes County’s unemployment rate dropped from 3.8% in March to 3.5% in April, the N.C. Department of Commerce reported.

Four Wilkes County entities were awarded a total of $4,907 in garden mini-grants through N.C State Extension’s SNAP-Ed program, Steps to Health, this year.

Heirloom tomatoes are enjoying a quiet revival among gardeners and homesteaders who crave flavor, variety, and a deeper connection to gardening traditions, ...

Appalachian State University researcher Dr. Zachary Russell, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, has been awarded a $2.3 million grant from NCInnovation (NCI) to develop an ...

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A total of 604 Wilkes Community College graduates earned 1,152 credentials in the spring semester.

The West Wilkes softball team held off North Lenoir, 3-2, in Greensboro on Saturday, sweeping the best-of-three 2A title ...

West Wilkes drew first blood in Friday's opening game of the 2A softball finals, downing North Lenoir, 9-1, at the ...

The majority of North Wilkesboro’s commissioners indicated support for setting the tax rate at 39 cents per $100 of property valuation in the draft fiscal 2025-26 budget when they worked ...

Annie Cummings, commander of the Department of North Carolina of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, said Tuesday that she has suspended Blue Ridge Mountain VFW Post 1142 in North Wilkesboro.