Three days after Ronda commissioners accepted his resignation as manager consultant of that Wilkes County town, Michael Boaz of King was charged with embezzling funds from Pilot Mountain while employe ...

A Boomer man is in the Wilkes County Jail under $1 million bond after being charged with trafficking in methamphetamine and other offenses following an investigation by the Ashe County Sheriff’s ...

State legislators are nearing a deal on raises for state employees and therefore closer to finalizing a state budget after a yearlong standoff, reported WRAL radio in Raleigh Monday evening. The radio ...

The North Wilkesboro Police Department has charged but is still seeking man in connection with an incident in which two other ...

Wilkes Central senior Wills Eller was in a five-way tie for the 18-hole lead after Monday’s opening round in the 4A state golf championships at Longleaf Golf & Family Club in Southern Pines.

A proposed fiscal 2026-27 Wilkes County budget that keeps a 42-cent property tax rate, has no salary increases (except longevity pay) and cuts appropriations to most nonprofits and some county ...

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The Wilkesboro Town Council and Wilkes County commissioners scheduled public hearings on proposed economic investment agreements with a company that plans to create about 92 jobs and invest about ...

He told the Wilkes Journal-Patriot in a 2014 interview that many of the old barns in Wilkes represented German, Scottish or other ancestry of people who built them, and in that and other ways are ...

The Wilkes Central soccer team edged Pisgah, 2-1, in the opening round of the 4A playoffs Monday in Moravian Falls.

In Article Audio Player The first performance was at Anchor Coffee in North Wilkesboro on May 2, with a standing-room-only crowd. It performed for residents at Wilkes Assisted Living and Rose Glen ...

The Wilkes Celebrate America 250 Parade will start at 5 p.m. July 4 in Wilkesboro and end in North Wilkesboro with events at the North Wilkesboro Train Depot, followed by the annual Fire Truck Parade ...