The Town of Wilkesboro announced on July 8 that it is initiating the first phase of its Water Shortage Response Plan due to current drought conditions.

The Town of Wilkesboro announced on July 8 that it is initiating the first phase of its Water Shortage Management Plan in response to current conditions affecting local water resources.

The Wilkes County 10U softball all-stars cruised to the Tar Heel Leagues District title on July 1, blanking Surry County, 15-0, in the championship game.

The Lake Norman summer college baseball team edged out Wilkes County, 3-2, at Huntersville Athletic Park on Monday.

Final preparations are being made for the Window World 450 on July 19, the first NASCAR Cup series points race at the North ...

North Wilkesboro Speedway Executive Director Graig Hoffman was looking for old photos of the historic track’s early days when ...

Due to poor field conditions Monday evening, game two of the Area IV American Legion junior baseball series between Shelby Post 82 and North Wilkes Post 31 was rescheduled to ...

Rowan Post 146 swept a doubleheader against the Wilkes Post 31 junior softball team, denying the Flashers any runs in Salisbury on June 30.

We’ve played the music, shot the fireworks, and recited the opening lines of the Declaration of Independence. But our commemoration of America’s semiquincentennial has only just begun.

The man charged with murdering U.S. Postal Service mail carrier Brandi Byrd Reynolds in Hays on June 26 said they had been in ...

“My first wish is for America to be free,” said John Penn, one of North Carolina’s three signers of the Declaration. Like many other North Carolinians of the 1770s, Penn was a native Virginian who had ...

Two historians spent about 20 years deciphering, transcribing and posting online over 31,500 documents (mostly pension applications) of men who enlisted in the Patriot militia (or their widows) in the ...