Breanna Wooten, named Wilkes County Schools Teacher of the Year for 2024-25 on April 16, was presented a brand new Nissan ...

A workshop on growing strawberry in western North Carolina is planned from 1-4:30 p.m. Aug. 9 at the Wilkes Cooperative Extension Service in the Wilkes Agricultural Center at 416 Executive ...

North Carolina’s seasonally adjusted March 2024 unemployment rate was 3.5%, unchanged from February’s revised rate.

The American job market seems to keep rolling on. The recently released March labor market report showing 300,000 net additional jobs in the country was significantly above economists’ expectations.

I would help God by watching people.” Often, the hurts we suffer are more than physical, says Cory, 10: “I’d have my mom and dad back together because when I’m with one I miss the other.” Andrew, 8, ...

N.C. Baptists (Baptist State Convention of N.C.) has launched a new job board website to connect churches and candidates seeking to fill ministry positions in North Carolina.

Scripture engagement among American adults is at its lowest point in the 14 years the American Bible Society (ABS) has issued its annual State of the Bible update, researchers said ...

The deadline for submitting applications for the R.L. Melton Agricultural Scholarship is April 30.

The Ferguson Grange’s annual plant and seed giveaway/exchange event is from 8 a.m. to noon May 4 in the Ferguson Community Center parking log on N.C. 268 West.

Jaki Shelton Green, North Carolina’s poet laureate, will visit the Wilkes County Public Library in North Wilkesboro on April 30 as part of National Poetry Month.

The body of a man who died in a tractor accident was found in the Mulberry community early Saturday morning.

Heather Hulburt Norris, provost and executive vice chancellor at Appalachian State University, has been named interim chancellor at the university, effective April 19.