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.

A man was charged with misdemeanor death by vehicle and other offenses as a result of the passenger in his 1995 Toyota pickup dying from injuries she received when the ...

Onsite work for installing a prefabricated pedestrian bridge over four-lane U.S. 421 near the North Wilkesboro Speedway is ...

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

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.

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

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 ...

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, who spoke of his faith more openly than other modern leaders, taught a Baptist Sunday ...