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

Eden Hamby, special events and volunteer coordinator at Wilkes Heritage Museum, shows how to make cornhusk dolls during ...

Yadkin Riverkeeper (YRK) announced that Nicole Eastman succeeded Edgar Miller as Yadkin Riverkeeper, effective July 1.

The House and Senate have approved a new state budget and Gov. Josh Stein has until July 12 to either sign it, veto the budget bill or allow it to ...

A smoke alarm probably saved lives when a house in the Mulberry-Fairplains Fire District caught on fire early Sunday morning as a result of Independence Day fireworks set off Saturday ...

AARP North Carolina is bringing its on-demand fraud prevention initiative, the Summer Scam Jam, to communities across the state in July.

Records daily highs of 99 degrees were recorded at the North Wilkesboro Water Treatment Plant in the 24-hour periods ending at 6 a.m. on July 4 and 5, but highs ...

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

A Morganton-based nonprofit’s 80th display of life-size replicas of the nation’s founding documents, located in front of Wilkesboro Town Hall, was unveiled in a ceremony Saturday.

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 ...

As we celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, let’s remember what makes our country exceptional — what makes it, despite evident flaws, so worthy of ...

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.