Watauga started off its 2025 softball season strong with a 10-0 shutout win against Elkin on Wednesday night, Feb. 26.

At the request North Carolina officials, FEMA has extended the deadline to apply for assistance after Tropical Storm Helene ...

Local library patrons can now access both current newspaper publications and archives through the Northwest Regional Library ...

Hugh Chatham Health announced it was beginning the search for a partner organization and it seems that search may be at its ...

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

The new athletic conferences for local schools were made official on March 4 when the N.C. High School Athletic Association ...

Explore Elkin will host a St. Paddy's Day Pub Crawl in downtown Elkin on Saturday.

Some Americans believe Trump could end the War in Ukraine by simply confronting Putin, like Clint Eastwood might confront the villain in a Western movie. They seem to want the President to stare ...

President-elect Donald Trump has tapped business leaders Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to head up the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), an initiative that isn’t really a department ...

Considerable cloudiness. Low near 50F. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph.

MerleFest, presented by Window World, will hold its annual festival April 24-27 on the campus of Wilkes Community College, featuring The Avett Brothers and Bonnie Raitt alongside returning ...

On March 14 Traphill Elementary School will be hosting a Luck of the Irish BINGO. They will be serving hot dogs with the fixings starting at 5:30 and Bingo will start at 6:30. This bingo is to ...