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

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

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

Children ages 9 to 12 are invited to participate in auditions Saturday for a production with a historical theme that will be part of the America 250 observance in 2026.

Joel Lamont Howie reported on Dec. 26 that a white, 2013 Dodge Charger with tainted windows was stolen from his home on Virginias Drive, Wilkesboro. The vehicle, value at $6,000, has N.C. license ...

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 ...

Why do you keep criticizing leaders and institutions on the Right? Why can’t you focus all your fire on the Left? Why can’t the Right form a united front? Why ...

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 ...

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