If ever folks needed an escape from reality, it was this past weekend in storm-battered Mount Airy – where the notion of retreating to the earlier, simpler time of Mayberry ...

Area groups and residents are joining forces to help those in Western North Carolina devastated by damage from Hurricane Helene.

North Carolina Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson says he has been treated for burns he suffered when he accidentally touched an exhaust pipe at a truck show while campaigning for ...

Hurricane Helene made her presence felt as she passed through North Carolina and dumped months’ worth of rain across the region. In anticipation of the storm, schools had closed on ...

Hundreds of homes in Surry County remain in the dark Sunday evening following Hurricane Helene's visit last week. According ...

Hurricane Helene made her presence felt as she passed through North Carolina and dumped months’ worth of rain across the region. In anticipation of the storm, schools had closed on ...

There are a couple of interesting facts concerning the legends on his special day. It is said that if it rains on Saint ...

One could have been fooled into thinking there was no impending threat of a tropical system when arriving to Cross Creek ...

Surry Community College alumnus Alex Moss said he only attended college because his parents made him, but at the time, he ...

Reader Diary is a periodic column consisting of reader contributions to The Mount Airy News. This is the first of a ...

- Amber Rae Stone and Charlie Richard Stone Jr.; granted on Sept. 19. - Robin Ann Smith and Jerry Emerson Smith; granted on Sept. 19. - Dawn Michelle Tickle and Justin Ray Tickle; granted on Sept. 19.

Three area residents have been arrested and jailed on various drug charges, including trafficking methamphetamine.