The East Wilkes softball team winning the 1A state championship in the spring of 2024 was the year’s top sports story in the ...

Due to an early press deadline, the match results of Dec. 21 will be in the Jan. 2 issue of the Wilkes Journal-Patriot.

The Charlotte-based Robert Haywood Morrison Foundation recently donated 749 acres on the Blue Ridge Mountain escarpment in ...

An existing portion of Thurmond Chatham Game Land fills upper right quarter of this map. The 749 acres that will be added to Thurmond take up most of the lower left quarter, from south of ...

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RALEIGH – The Tarboro Vikings made their eighth consecutive appearance in the North Carolina High School Association’s State Championship Game on Saturday afternoon at Carter-Finley Stadium ...

Teri Sue Varela, 62, of Ronda died at home on Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2024.

A story on page C4 about businesses that were awarded Downtown Boros Small Business Grants by the Wilkes Economic Development Corp. mistakenly omitted oner of the recipients, the Liberty Theatre ...

Wilkes is among several counties in the northwestern part of the state scheduled to switch to a paperless court system with eCourts software in July 2025, according to the Administrative ...

Child advocates want the N.C. General Assembly to regulate the sale of intoxicating cannabis products, many of which are packaged to look like popular candy and snacks.