Lowder asks music fans to “follow the smoke” and “feel the heat” at his nine-piece band’s gigs. The Catalinas have been playing beach/shag music with various members since 1957, with their 1975 anthem ...

North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein urged state lawmakers May 19 to allocate hundreds of millions more dollars toward western North Carolina's ongoing recovery from Hurricane Helene instead ...

Here’s the best bets for fun things to do this week in the arts in Wilkes County and the Town of Elkin. COMEDY BINGO NIGHT ...

The 12×30-foot storage unit in a Raleigh, North Carolina, suburb is crammed full of chairs, tables, mattresses, lamps, pots and pans.

The Wilkes Journal-Patriot doesn’t endorse or oppose views expressed in letters to the editor or opinion columns. Letters must have the writer’s first and last name. They must include a ...

The Roots and Branches Genealogy Club will meet at the Traphill Branch Library on Tuesday, June 3 at 4 p.m.. Anyone interested in Traphill family history is invited to join.

The Budweiser Clydesdales horses were at multiple locations in Wilkes County in conjunction with the North Wilkesboro ...

Members of the Emergency Medical Science (EMS) class of 2025 at Wilkes Community College were recognized in a pinning ...

Wilkes Community College’s newly-renovated police department facility has been named the Billie and Larry P. Watson Command ...

J. Terry Bumgarner, 79, of Wilkesboro, business and community leader in Wilkes County for decades, died Saturday.

Wilkes Tax Administrator Will Lankford said Monday that informal appeals were received for new tax values of fewer than 2,000 of the county’s 51,000 land parcels before the deadline for ...

Zoey Woodruff’s clutch two-run double in the bottom of the sixth lifted West Wilkes to a 6-5 win over Randleman in the ...