Wilkes County is under a flash flood warning issued by the National Weather Service office in Blacksburg, Va. at 10:59 a.m. Thursday as a result of rain tied to Hurricane ...

Here’s the best bets for fun things to do this week in Wilkes County and the Town of Elkin, as selected by the Wilkes Journal ...

At least for now, the tide is turning on drug overdose deaths in North Carolina and nationwide.

Arrests of 20 people as a result of drug investigations conducted over the last 2 ½ months were announced Monday by Capt.

Representatives of Best Friends Animal Society presented a plan for reducing the Wilkes County Animal Shelter’s comparatively high euthanasia rates and making other improvements during a work session ...

National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, Rendezvous Mountain Chapter, is sponsoring three separate contests this year: the American History Essay Contest (grades 5-8); the American Histo ...

Sarah Stevens, 64, of Mount Airy and Ken Badgett, 59, of Dobson are candidates to represent the 90th N.C. House District. The ...

Darren Staley, 50, of the Traphill community, and Eddie Settle, 64, of the Pleasant Hill community, are candidates to ...

Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson said in Wilkesboro Monday that reporters covering his campaign for governor should focus on issues like the economy and opioid addiction instead of a Sept. 19 ...

Claude Shew Jr., vice chairman of the Wilkes Soil and Water Conservation District Board of Supervisors, gave an update on efforts to start a Wilkes County farmers market somewhere along ...

The way the economy has evolved since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has been unusual in many respects, starting with a historically deep (but brief) recession and eventually leading ...

Using my mirrors to look behind me, the street showed cars parked on both sides. According to my dispatcher, I needed to deliver my empty trailer to the loading dock ...