Country music legend and philanthropist Dolly Parton took time to experience Wilkes County when she performed at Wilkes Community’s College’s MerleFest on April 28, 2001.

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, a program started by Parton’s Dollywood Foundation, resulted in 284,740 age-appropriate books being mailed to families of Wilkes County children up to age 5 since i ...

A Wilkesboro man died when the bicycle he was operating and a 2013 Dodge Journey SUV collided on two-lane Wilkes-Yadkin Road in southeastern Wilkes County late Wednesday morning.

More definitive plans for a “river district” in the ‘boros” — mostly in North Wilkesboro but also in Wilkesboro — were told ...

The North Wilkes soccer team threw a 3-0 clean sheet over North Stokes in Danbury on Monday. After the nonconference tilt, North Wilkes upped its preseason mark to 1-2. North Stokes dipped to 2-1-1.

In Article Audio Player People involved with “High Point,” a new TV series on the early days of stock car racing include, from left, Billy Queen, Jimmy Hester (actor), Matt Yesbeck (executive producer ...

During an emergency meeting Wednesday afternoon, the Ronda commissioners agreed by consensus to meet at 4 p.m. Saturday at town hall and decide then what to do regarding the town’s ...

Consideration of allowing golf carts during certain hours on most streets; prohibiting feeding wildlife without a permit; and approving two rezoning requests are among items on North Wilkesboro town ...

Nathaniel Willard Byrd, 38, a youth athletics coach from Hudson, was sentenced to 121 months in federal prison on Aug. 13 for receiving child sexual abuse material, said Russ Ferguson, U.S. attorney ...

The Brushy Mountain Ruritan Club recently announced its five latest scholarship recipients.

Using feedback from farmers across the state, researchers with N.C. State University’s Food Animal Initiative (FAI) are ...