Wilkes County News

This 4 bedroom 1 bath farm house has 21 acres to hunt, ride your ATV, fish in your own pond, or stroll down the road to the new proposed Sky Carolina Tennis Resort, Several outbuildings, barn, and pole shed.

A classic moonshiner's coupe, bearing the logo of ex-moonshiner and NASCAR legend Junior Johnson's "Midnight Moon," sits with other period cars at the Moonshiners and Revenuers Reunion, in this photo from Oct.

Morganton - Burke investigators allege a Lenoir woman sold fake goods in multiple counties across the region.

Manuel Wood, technically a Ronda commissioner, has been approaching Ronda residents door to door asking that they sign a petition he has drawn up, asking for the dissolution of the town of Ronda.

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

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 dispute over money between two men in Wilkes County ended with one of the men being shot to death, Wilkes County Sheriff Dane Mastin said.

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

A mother and her 5-year-old daughter were killed in a head-on collision on the way to school Tuesday morning in Wilkes County, according to the North Carolina Highway Patrol.

A 22-year-old Wilkes County woman and her 5-year-old daughter were killed Tuesday morning in a head-on crash on Dragway Road near U.S. Highway 421.

A man who authorities named more than a year ago as a suspect in the shooting death of his estranged wife on Aug.

Tears were shed and warm braces were exchanged at the Ashe County Courthouse Sunday afternoon as survivors of loved ones who lost their lives to suicide gathered for the Sunshine Sunday Candlelight Vigil shortly before dusk.

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

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Education officials have released the latest School Report Cards mandated by the federal No Child Left Behind program for schools statewide.

The U.S. Census Bureau named the group of people who will manage the counting effort next year for the region that includes Wilkes county.

Wilkes County commissioners can't agree to spend an estimated $26 million to build a 298-bed jail and law-enforcement center, so they are looking at shorter-term, less expensive options to relieve jail overcrowding.

Jessie Bunker Bryant remembers a photo of her great-grandfather and his twin. Instead of being displayed on the wall, the photo was kept in a drawer in their Mebane home.

Ashlyn Pope, 17, is listed in critical condition at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte after a vehicle in which she was traveling with her father was struck Thursday night.

Unemployment rates decreased in 76 North Carolina counties in September, according to statistics released Friday by the state's Employment Security Commission.