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Wilkesboro firefighters and police worked together to rescue a dog from the side of a rock cliff along busy U.S. 421 Business ...
Wilkes School Superintendent Mark Byrd on March 5 announced that two eastern Wilkes County schools have new principals.
The number of Wilkes County high school students testing positive in random drug tests decreased from 30 out of 432 tested in the 2023-24 school year to 13 out of ...
Daimler Truck North America operates some of North Carolina’s largest manufacturing facilities, including a Freightliner truck plant in Mount Holly, a Freightliner and Western Star plant in Cleveland, ...
North Carolina Auditor Dave Boliek called for the separation of the N.C. Department of Motor Vehicles from the N.C. Department of Transportation in an audit report released Monday.
An 18-year-old was charged with misdemeanor death by vehicle as a result of a wreck on U.S. 21 in the Wilkes County portion ...
North Carolina's Division of Motor Vehicles is the subject of two new audits looking to address long wait times for customers ...
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.
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 ...
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).
In 1775, a year before there was a United States and six weeks after the Continental Army was formed, George Washington made a declaration that has shaped the military ever ...
The Happy Valley Jamboree, featuring bluegrass and old time music and more, is Labor Day Weekend on the Jones family’s Laura Foster Farm in the Happy Valley community of Caldwell ...