The North Carolina Senate recently unveiled its 2025-27 budget proposal, calling for pay raises for teachers and most state ...

WILKES COUNTY, N.C. — UPDATE (Sunday 10 p.m.): The fire is now 90% contained, according to the North Carolina Forest Service. There is an active wildfire in Wilkes County, according to Wilkes ...

On Saturday just before 5 a.m., crews said they were called to the mountainside area of Old Highway 16 near the Wilkes and Ashe County line. The North Carolina Forest Service has issued a burn ban ...

More than 50 bills that would impact North Carolina community colleges have been filed by the General Assembly this year.

Several wildfires have erupted in North Carolina. Video shows thick smoke rising up from the mountains where the Old Highway 16 fire burns in Wilkes County, North Carolina, on Saturday. Pope ...

The worst fires in the region are in Polk County ... Watauga, Wilkes, Yancey, as well as the tribal lands in the state of North Carolina held by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. " ...

It won’t bring her back. It won’t change any of this, but it will do something to help people in the future,” said Kelly ...

Wildfires continue to sweep across North Carolina. In Wilkes County, crews are working to contain an active blaze. In Polk County, officials issued a mandatory evacuation for several areas as two ...

Wilkes County Emergency Management, North Carolina Forest Service, and the US Forest Service. WATCH: Firefighters battle large outdoor fire in Burke County Firefighters battle large outdoor fire ...