The Mount Airy Fire Department soon will have a new leader, one who has served in both big-city and rural firefighting environments.

Guitars were strumming, the twang of fiddles and banjos rang out, and voices echoed loudly at Surry Community College’s recent Old-Time Music Camp. Both rookie and experienced musicians ...

Elkin Wet Lightning traveled to Dobson on Thursday for a late season competition between the league’s two largest teams. With ...

There will be some familiar faces in new places when Surry County Schools rings the first bell on Aug. 13. The district ...

Kenny Stoker will be preaching at Garden Creek Baptist Church on Sunday, July 20 at 9 a.m.. Everyone is invited to attend, especially campers in the Stone Mtn State Park.

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 ...

The local Tuscarora king or chief, offended and threatened that his territory had been invaded, captured Lawson and Graffenried and put them on trial for their lives. When one of the more radical ...

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

Afternoon thunderstorms yield many benefitsDog Day afternoons can produce the makings of beneficial summer thunderstorms that ...

People across the area were drying out Wednesday morning after Mount Airy and surrounding areas in Surry County experienced ...

Elkin Wet Lightning hosted two swim meets at Elkin City Pool in an action packed weekend full of fast swimming. Elkin hosted ...

Thousands of visitors will soon be traveling to the Yadkin Valley region to enjoy selling their treasures, or shopping along ...