North Carolina's Division of Motor Vehicles is the subject of two new audits looking to address long wait times for customers ...

A Colorado funeral home owner admitted to sending customers fake ashes and defrauding the federal government in a plea deal with federal prosecutors. It's not the first time Carie Hallford ...

The N.C. General Assembly ended July by overriding Gov. Josh Steins vetoes of the following bills, which means they now are law: ...

On Friday, Aug. 1, 2025, Jeff Cox, the president of the N.C Community College System and former president of Wilkes Community College, announced his retirement effective June 30, 2026.

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You anoint my head with oil; My cup runs over” (Psalm 23:5).

Tyson Foods Inc. topped analysts’ expectations with its third quarter earnings report, released Monday morning.

Wilkes County and other locales in North Carolina and nationwide experienced record and near-record high temperatures in June and July, according to National Weather Service (NWS) data.

Starting Aug.1, county governments and conservation nonprofit groups may apply for grant funding from the N.C. Agricultural Development and Farmland Preservation Trust Fund for farmland preservation ...