The North Wilkesboro commissioners approved the Downtown Building Improvement Grant Program, a competitive reimbursement grant initiative designed to encourage private investment, revitalize downtown ...

The Wilkes County commissioners unanimously approved several end of the fiscal year budget amendments during their June 16 meeting, including for funding work on a former Northwestern Bank headquarter ...

The Wilkes Sheriff’s Office on Monday announced arrests on robbery, assault and other charges in connection with an incident ...

The Wilkes Playmakers will present the 25th season of “Tom Dooley: A Wilkes County Legend” in July and August at Benton Hall ...

State legislators were expected to reveal a state budget bill Tuesday morning and vote on it later this week, the News and Observer in Raleigh reported late Monday night.

North Carolina routinely makes national lists of the top states for business in America.

A woman who fell and was injured while hiking on the Cascades Falls Trail along the Blue Ridge Parkway was carried about three quarters of a mile by emergency personnel ...

Charles Jones is a retired pastor and Baptist historian who lives in Athens, Ga. Baptists in the southern colonies experienced explosive growth during the First Great Awakening. They also began to ...

How good is job market in N.C.? As a professional economist, I look at volumes of data to understand what is happening in the economy. But if I could only look at one piece of this information, I ...

Two Appalachian State University projects designed to strengthen western North Carolina’s building trades workforce and cyber defenses have been selected to receive funding support through the univers ...

Full-scale replicas of the U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights, Declaration of Independence and Civil Rights Amendments will be unveiled in a ceremony in front of Wilkesboro Town Hall at 2 ...

The N.C. Forest Service (NCFS) will begin accepting orders in its annual tree seedling sale on July 1.