North Carolina's Division of Motor Vehicles is the subject of two new audits looking to address long wait times for customers ...

A Colorado funeral home owner admitted to sending customers fake ashes and defrauding the federal government in a plea deal with federal prosecutors. It's not the first time Carie Hallford ...

The N.C. General Assembly ended July by overriding Gov. Josh Steins vetoes of the following bills, which means they now are law: ...

On Friday, Aug. 1, 2025, Jeff Cox, the president of the N.C Community College System and former president of Wilkes Community College, announced his retirement effective June 30, 2026.

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You anoint my head with oil; My cup runs over” (Psalm 23:5).

Tyson Foods Inc. topped analysts’ expectations with its third quarter earnings report, released Monday morning.

Wilkes County and other locales in North Carolina and nationwide experienced record and near-record high temperatures in June and July, according to National Weather Service (NWS) data.

North Wilkesboro Presbyterian Church at 804 E Street was recently certified as an “Earth Care Congregation” by the ...

Starting Aug.1, county governments and conservation nonprofit groups may apply for grant funding from the N.C. Agricultural Development and Farmland Preservation Trust Fund for farmland preservation ...

In the back of a cramped, wood-paneled warehouse in Knoxville, Tenn., are dozens of aquarium tanks filled with endangered, ...

The Wilkes County American Legion senior softball team concluded summer play Monday by going 1-2 in the four-team state ...

The Wilkesboro Town Council has officially approved a major upgrade and expansion of the town’s wastewater treatment plant for a cost not to exceed $89.8 million.