The Wilkes Heritage Museum has announced a special program by Research Specialist Jason Duncan entitled “Freshets, Floods, and Other Tales of the Yadkin River” on Tuesday, Jan. 28 at 10:30 ...

Eleven students recently graduated from Surry Community College’s Basic Law Enforcement Training (BLET) program.

Nine disaster-trained volunteers from the American Red Cross of North Carolina are deploying to support disaster relief operations in California where dangerous wildfires continue to burn, devastating ...

The Blue Ridge Music Center is competing for Best Free Museum in USA Today’s 10Best readers’ choice poll open through Feb. 10. The public is invited to ...

The Yadkin Arts Council and Blue Ridge Music Center will close out its 9th annual Sounds of the Mountains concert series on ...

Fly my flag or you'll be hanged, drawn and quartered', King George III did not tell the American colonists some 250 years ago ...

Not everyone buys a scratch off or lotto ticket at the gas station, but for every person who does take a gamble on playing the lottery, some portion of that ...

A legal battle in Raleigh regarding the contested election for the North Carolina Supreme Court has reached its way into the area as hundreds of ballots in Surry, Yadkin and Wilkes counties are among ...

Carol Kay Wooten Byrd, age 78, of Purlear, passed away on Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024, at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Wilkes Medical Center. Memorial services will be held at a later date. She was ...

Zetta “Jane” Brown Hall, age 81, passed away peacefully on Friday, Jan. 3, 2025, surrounded by loved ones. Born on Oct. 25, 1943, in Yadkin County, she was the daughter of the late Joshua Ford Brown ...

A survey revealed that some people prefer a root canal to doing their taxes, but a service offered locally is designed to ...

The legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will be honored during an upcoming event also to include presenting an annual ...