Wilkes County News

Eighteen of the 100 North Carolina counties have poverty levels above 20 percent, according to a report released Tuesday by the NC Justice Center .

Convicted murderer Charles Ray Turner may be trading in his prison stripes for street clothes a little sooner than what local law enforcement officials prefer.

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A Hamptonville man is free after posting a $1,000 unsecured bond on Sunday, Nov.

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This would be the perfect main house or a vacation home. Just a little over a mile from Cielo Falls.

Police are gathering evidence in a week old murder, and the accused is still in jail with no bond.

This 4 bedroom 1 bath farm house has 21 acres to hunt, ride your ATV, fish in your own pond, or stroll down the road to the new proposed Sky Carolina Tennis Resort, Several outbuildings, barn, and pole shed.

A classic moonshiner's coupe, bearing the logo of ex-moonshiner and NASCAR legend Junior Johnson's "Midnight Moon," sits with other period cars at the Moonshiners and Revenuers Reunion, in this photo from Oct.

Morganton - Burke investigators allege a Lenoir woman sold fake goods in multiple counties across the region.

Manuel Wood, technically a Ronda commissioner, has been approaching Ronda residents door to door asking that they sign a petition he has drawn up, asking for the dissolution of the town of Ronda.

People who run Christmas programs in Wilkes County that provide presents to children in need know that the next few weeks will be rough.

With faces that made racing famous in the crowd, a group of investors announced Tuesday that racing would return to North Wilkesboro Speedway next fall.

A dispute over money between two men in Wilkes County ended with one of the men being shot to death, Wilkes County Sheriff Dane Mastin said.

Wilkes County Sheriff Dane Mastin said they are investigating a shooting death that happened early Wednesday morning.

A mother and her 5-year-old daughter were killed in a head-on collision on the way to school Tuesday morning in Wilkes County, according to the North Carolina Highway Patrol.

A 22-year-old Wilkes County woman and her 5-year-old daughter were killed Tuesday morning in a head-on crash on Dragway Road near U.S. Highway 421.

A man who authorities named more than a year ago as a suspect in the shooting death of his estranged wife on Aug.

Tears were shed and warm braces were exchanged at the Ashe County Courthouse Sunday afternoon as survivors of loved ones who lost their lives to suicide gathered for the Sunshine Sunday Candlelight Vigil shortly before dusk.

Don Alexander, the director of the Wilkes Economic Development Corp., had heard dozens of proposals for redeveloping North Wilkesboro Speedway.