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.

The Wilkesboro and North Wilkesboro fire department had a display of patriotic spirit and unity Saturday afternoon beside the ...

Learn about regulations and post-harvest handling practices that help maintain quality standards for culinary and medicinal ...

Is this the best budget our lawmakers could come up with?

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

The following land and rights of way transfers were filed at the Wilkes Register of Deeds in April. Orville Weaver to KOP LLC, five-eighths of an acre in Edwards Township. Tammy Miller to Jack Fields ...

The Wilkes Genealogical Society announced that it is seeking entries for volume III of the Heritage of Wilkes County.

The impact of new work requirements for receiving Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits under the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (H.R. 1) was reviewed during the July 2 Wilkes ...

Jerry Laws, a Wilkes County native and resident, has been named warden of Piedmont Correctional Institution in Salisbury.