North Wilkesboro News

This week marks the four-year anniversary of the murder of local man Timothy Shatley and authorities feel that they are a step closer to solving the case once and for all.

Large 4 bedrrom, 3.5 bath home with recent updates. 2 level deck with large brick patio.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and Health Canada, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following products.

The Ashe County Chamber of Commerce has seen an influx of visitors or a oetraffica since July and Executive Director Cabot Hamilton believes location may have a little something to do with that increase.

People who run Christmas programs in Wilkes County that provide presents to children in need know that the next few weeks will be rough.

Date: Thursdays to Sundays, November 12 to 15 and 19 to 22 Time: 7:30 p.m./2:00 p.m. Sundays Location: Benton Hall, 300 D Street, North Wilkesboro Cost: $15 adults/$12 students and seniors Tickets are on sale now for the Wilkes Playmakers' production of The Wizard of Oz , which will take place in Benton Hall, located on 300 D Street in North ...

Wilkes County Sheriff Dane Mastin said they are investigating a shooting death that happened early Wednesday morning.

With faces that made racing famous in the crowd, a group of investors announced Tuesday that racing would return to North Wilkesboro Speedway next fall.

A quadruple shooting Sunday in Mount Airy, the usually peaceful town that has maintained its reputation over the years as the model for Andy Griffith's fictional Mayberry, is a jarring event in more ways than one.

Wilkes County commissioners agreed yesterday to move forward with plans for a new 256-bed jail.

Don Alexander, the director of the Wilkes Economic Development Corp., had heard dozens of proposals for redeveloping North Wilkesboro Speedway.

More details this morning on the discussions taking place on what should happen with the Wilkes County Jail's overcrowding problem.

Some were taking photos at Lowe's Motor Speedway, while others were wiping down their vehicles, but most who came to the Goodguys 16th Southeastern Nationals on Saturday were doing what they came to do, see and talk about cars.

The president of the Parent Teacher Organization at C.C. Wright Elementary School was arrested Monday on a charge connected to the theft of $6,294 from the organization, authorities said.

Wilkes Steel is expanding. Owner Bert Hall tells the Journal Patriot the North Wilkesboro-based company is reaching out to more customers than ever before.

Jonesville police Friday afternoon arrested three local men who they say have been stealing large amounts of metal from local utility companies and selling it at area scrap yards for what they estimate to be thousands of dollars.

Today is the one-year anniversary of the disappearance of a North Wilkesboro man.

BOOK READING: Author R.G. Absher will share stories from the book Ghosts of the Yadkin Valley at 6 p.m. in the Friends of the Library Meeting Room at Wilkes County Public Library, 215 10th St., North Wilkesboro.

So you're headed west to the mountains, and the 32-ounce soda you downed in Winston-Salem has finally run its course.

The Wilkes County Sheriff's department says a man who was shot in the leg last Cadnesday with a bow and arrow and released from the hospital on Friday has died.