The West Wilkes varsity boys basketball team rallied to win its first game of the season Tuesday, clipping West Iredell, ...

Host East Wilkes went 6-0 and swept the Foothills Duals Dec. 20 in Ronda. The Cardinals turned in victories over Corvian ...

Strong wind led to a fire that burned about 10.5 acres of woods and pasture between N.C. 16-18 and Wilkes Central High School ...

The West Wilkes varsity girls needed overtime Tuesday to dispatch of Rocky River in the fifth-place game of the North Iredell ...

The East Wilkes girls wrestling team finished fourth Tuesday in the Carolina Clash Women’s Invitational at Tryon ...

Construction permits issued by the Wilkes County Inspections Department show an increase in volume and cost of single-family home construction from 2024 to 2025.

Looking back over the past 12 months of high school sports in Wilkes County, the spring season once again stood out, with three new state championship banners unfurled in the ...

Wilkes remains among the state’s 40 most economically distressed counties and therefore in Tier One in 2026, but it improved ...

Wilkes County native Rhoda Bryan Billings, the second woman to serve as N.C. Supreme Court chief justice and a groundbreaker in other ways, died Dec. 29, 2025, in Raleigh. She ...

Officer of the Year and other awards were presented during the North Wilkesboro Police Department’s annual Christmas Dinner ...

Ronda will again be without a mayor due to the resignation of Rheajean Benge, appointed to that position in October after it ...

Traphill Fire Chief Brian McDaniel presented the department’s Firefighter of the Year Award for 2025 to Lt. Aubrey “Tink” ...