NASCAR introduced another innovative national series schedule as the 2026 slates were announced today (Wednesday) for the ...

The nation’s largest public utility plans to buy power from an upcoming advanced nuclear plant to help fuel Google data ...

The Wilkes Cooperative Extension Service will host a workshop focused on best practices and strategies to improve the quality ...

Upcoming construction of a new warehouse and office building for American Furniture Co. on D Street, North Wilkesboro, was among top stories in the Aug. 12, 1965, issue of The Journal-Patriot. This is ...

The Western Piedmont Symphony, a professional orchestra based in the North Carolina foothills, opens its 2025-26 season with ...

The State Health Plan Board of Trustees approved increases to health care coverage premiums for members at its meeting on ...

The Blue Ridge Conservancy Board of Trustees on Tuesday announced the hiring of David Ray as the organization’s executive ...

On Aug. 15, the National Park Service reopened eight miles of the Blue Ridge Parkway from milepost 221.8 to 229.7 south of ...

Botanist Riley Sain is leading a 1.4-mile, two-hour hike every Saturday in August on the Fodderstack Trail in the Blue Ridge ...

The Wilkes County Board of Elections passed a resolution during a meeting earlier this month temporarily transferring voters in the Cricket, Fairplains, Wilkesboro 2 precincts who are eligible to vote ...

First-year and returning Appalachian State University students began moving into residence halls in Boone on Aug. 12 in ...

In April 1775 — just days before the Revolutionary War broke out at Lexington and Concord — North Carolina’s royal governor, Josiah Martin, disbanded the colonial legislature, of which Johnston was a ...