A mobile home at 173 East Meadows Drive in Boomer was heavily damaged by fire Monday morning.

Early voting in Wilkes County for the 2026 party primaries and Wilkes Board of Education election ended with a 28% larger turnout than four years earlier, said Wilkes Elections Director ...

The need to make tough decisions often accompanies the suffering brought by tragedy. Such is the case with the passing of Mark Byrd, superintendent of Wilkes County Schools for the ...

State and local leaders say they want to lower the cost of living for most North Carolinians. In many cases, however, their actions don’t match their words.

MerleFest 2026 ticket sales are tracking similarly to sales in 2025 and that’s a good sign, said Wes Whitson, festival director, in a report given at the Feb. 20 Wilkes ...

Completion of a comprehensive overhaul and expansion of the primary home of the N.C. National Guard’s 875th Engineer Co. on ...

Completion of a comprehensive overhaul and expansion of the primary home of the N.C. National Guard’s 875th Engineer Co. on Armory Road in North Wilkesboro was celebrated with a ribbon ...

Numerous felony offenses were heard in recent sessions of Wilkes District Court. In the Feb. 18 session of Wilkes District Court, with Judge Adam Anderson presiding: ...

Two men received lengthy prison sentences in sex crime cases and others were sentenced to prison for failure to register as sex offenders or report new addresses as sex offenders ...

A man is in the Wilkes County Jail with no bond on charges of robbing another man at the victim’s home in Moravian Falls.

A Hays man is in the Wilkes County Jail with no bond on charges of robbing and assaulting a person at the victim’s home in Moravian Falls.

The Wilkes County Tourism Development Authority (TDA) is hosting the Wilkes Tourism Economy Community Gathering on Thursday, March 5.