The East Wilkes softball team winning the 1A state championship in the spring of 2024 was the year’s top sports story in the ...

The following land and rights of way transfers were filed Dec. 6-19 at the Wilkes Register of Deeds office. Herbert Daniels, Helen Dula, Gene Dula, Craig Daniels and Nathan Daniels to Gene Dula and ...

The Charlotte-based Robert Haywood Morrison Foundation recently donated 749 acres on the Blue Ridge Mountain escarpment in ...

Due to an early press deadline, the match results of Dec. 21 will be in the Jan. 2 issue of the Wilkes Journal-Patriot.

Western North Carolinians will forever remember 2024 for Tropical Storm Helene’s unprecedented damage in late September, but it was a year with other weather extremes.

The Wilkes County Inspections Department issued permits for construction of 124 single family homes in 2024 (through Dec. 27), the same as for this period in 2023.

The present use program was established under a state law intended to encourage use of land for farming and timber production ...

The Wilkesboro Police Department and Wilkesboro Fire Department recently responded to a fire at the Food Lion supermarket on Westwood Lane that was identified as an arson case in a ...

A source of funds for encouraging farmland preservation and supporting agriculture in Wilkes County in other ways was ...

There is no lack of opportunities for significant positive change locally, especially in North Wilkesboro, as the new year begins.

Lutheran Church of the Atonement at 243 Oakwoods Road, Wilkesboro will present its annual celebration, “Appalachian Christmas,” from 3-5 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 5.

After more than 40 years, the N.C. State Health Plan has a new administrator starting Jan. 1. Aetna is taking over the state's largest health plan from Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina. The ...