Kudos and thanks to the hundreds of volunteers and organizers who again helped make MerleFest the magical event it is.

In western North Carolina, we measure time a little differently these days. There’s “before Helene,” and everything that has come after.

Daniel Boone is the quintessential American frontier hero, embodying the ideals of self-reliance, exploration and other qualities Hollywood made him out to represent in a 1960s TV series.

Once hard or impossible to read gravestone inscriptions in the Old Wilkesboro (or Presbyterian) Cemetery are now legible due to work of about 65 volunteers in an event organized by ...

A Wilkesboro resident recently donated his kidney to a person needing a transplant.

Southern Baptists are among many who will pray in churches, businesses and the public square May 7 on the 75th anniversary of the National Day of Prayer (NDP), months ahead ...

The American Cancer Society’s Relay For Life of Wilkes County celebration is from 6-10 p.m., Friday, May 8, at the North Wilkesboro Rotary Club’s Tomlinson Park on West Park Drive ...

Winners in Whippoorwill Academy and Village’s ninth annual James Larkin Pearson Poetry competition for middle and high school ...

Traphill Fire Department will have bingo games on Saturday, May 9. Spaghetti will be served at 6 p.m. and bingo starts at 7 p.m.

The Western North Carolina Sculpture Center at 4612 Patterson School Drive, Lenoir, will host a Mother’s Day Stepping Stones Family Workshop from 1-4 p.m., Saturday, May 16, ...

Registration is open for sessions in the Wilkes Art Gallery’s “Gogh For It Summer Art Camp.” ...

Emergency personnel responded to a drowning incident in the Goshen Fire District west of Wilkesboro late Saturday afternoon.