Opening night reception for Work by ArtMix, a show featuring new works and a tribute to ArtMix member Orna Moradov Bentor, is 5:30-7:30 p.m.. Friday at the Wilkes Art Gallery.

The American Cancer Society’s Relay For Life of Wilkes County celebration is May 9 at the North Wilkesboro Rotary Club’s Tomlinson Park on West Park Drive in North Wilkesboro.

Officials in North Carolina and other states sued the Trump administration on Tuesday over its decision to cut $11 billion in federal funds that go toward COVID-19 initiatives and other ...

Piedmont Regional Forage Conference is from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. April 15 at the Yadkin County Cooperative Extension Office at ...

Boomer passed away Sunday, March 30, 2025, at Wilkes Assisted Living. The family will receive friends Saturday, April 12, ...

House Bill 306, called “Affordable Housing for Local Employees,” was recently introduced as a “local bill” to authorize Blowing Rock and Boone, Watauga County and the Watauga County Board of ...

Traphill Baptist Church will host an Easter egg hunt for all on Saturday, April 12, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Derick Barker will preach at 9 a.m., Sunday, April 6, at Garden Creek Baptist Church in Stone ...

Wilkes Community College announced the launch of its dental hygiene program, set to begin in the upcoming academic year.

The Ola Belle Reed Song Writer’s Retreat is April 11-13 at the Ashe Civic Center and Ashe Arts Center in West Jefferson.

She lived on this island for 77 years and never left, not even for a day,” Alton Ballance told us about a woman who spent her entire life on Ocracoke ...

Students in the Fantasia Junior Music Club in Wilkes County received high ratings for their performances in the N.C. Federation of Junior Music Clubs Festival at Wake Forest University in ...

The state launched the N.C. Private Road and Bridge Program to assist property owners in Wilkes and other western North Carolina counties adversely impacted by Tropical Storm Helene.