It’s one thing to complete a marathon, half marathon, 10K or 5K race — which all can be done in a span of minutes or hours — ...

Mount Airy’s soccer season ended with a 2-0 loss to Shelby on Nov. 9. The Granite Bears and the visiting Golden Lions played ...

North went undefeated for the second consecutive season and captured its third consecutive championship in the Foothills ...

In recognition of his role in education, North Surry High School teacher Justin Gammons was recently awarded with the 2026 Surry County Schools Educator of Excellence Award.

Along with adding some extra jingle to the city coffers, recent sales of surplus municipal land are helping to provide more housing in a tight market locally.

The “D-word” hasn’t been removed from the dictionary yet, but drought is rapidly being reduced to a fleeting memory with Surry County having escaped that status thanks to recent precipitation.

In Nevada and Ohio, voters elected Democratic governors and still approved constitutional amendments strengthening voter ID, ...

Mount Airy’s data center ordinance is now gospel, having been approved unanimously after months of consideration — with one city official saying the issue was a done deal in another ...

November always arrives with a certain amount of calmness highlighted by the falling of leaves from mighty oaks carpeting the ...

Over the last decade, national research has documented a persistent gap between how parents perceive their child’s academic performance and how students are actually performing. Now, that gap is ...

If a Democratic wave was the major story of election night, another tale was close behind -- that of races so tight they ...

Politicians often talk a good game about wanting to run a clean campaign with no mudslinging, but this proved to be more than ...