Opening night reception for Work by ArtMix, a show featuring new works and a tribute to ArtMix member Orna Moradov Bentor, is 5:30-7:30 p.m.. Friday at the Wilkes Art Gallery.

The Ola Belle Reed Song Writer’s Retreat is April 11-13 at the Ashe Civic Center and Ashe Arts Center in West Jefferson.

Students in the Fantasia Junior Music Club in Wilkes County received high ratings for their performances in the N.C. Federation of Junior Music Clubs Festival at Wake Forest University in ...

Boomer passed away Sunday, March 30, 2025, at Wilkes Assisted Living. The family will receive friends Saturday, April 12, ...

Officials in North Carolina and other states sued the Trump administration on Tuesday over its decision to cut $11 billion in federal funds that go toward COVID-19 initiatives and other ...

She lived on this island for 77 years and never left, not even for a day,” Alton Ballance told us about a woman who spent her entire life on Ocracoke ...

Redistribution, Democrats and vote-buying. Capitalism expects us to earn our own way. Socialism prefers to overtax hard workers and redistribute wealth among those less willing to work in return for ...

House Bill 306, called “Affordable Housing for Local Employees,” was recently introduced as a “local bill” to authorize Blowing Rock and Boone, Watauga County and the Watauga County Board of ...

The N.C. Highway Patrol responded to a fatal collision in Alexander County on N.C. 16 at Millersville Road south of Taylorsville at about 5:40 p.m. March 28.

As spring advances and temperatures turn warmer, trees blossom and release pollen — the fine, yellow powder that covers cars, patios and other outdoor surfaces.

As a condition for receiving federal money, the Trump administration is ordering K-12 schools to certify that they are following federal civil rights laws and ending any discriminatory diversity, equi ...

After earlier jobs in the private sector (furniture) and the government sector (local and federal), I found my ultimate career in teaching.