When a child is born or serious illness strikes, workers need time off, but for millions of Americans, it’s not that simple.

One hundred dollars here, one thousand there, and eleven dollars from a 6-year-old boy named Fisher all added up to more than ...

Those able to sit down with family and friends for a Thanksgiving feast in a cozy dining room might not realize there was a ...

DOBSON — Office seekers have wasted no time formally throwing their hats into the ring, with eight people vying for city and ...

Smith, the No. 3 seed at 126, earned a first-round bye and pinned East Davidson’s Nakii Brown in the quarterfinals. He then ...

On Tuesday, Haynes was inducted into the Surry County Agricultural Hall of Fame during the annual Farm City Celebration, ...

Fiscal caution dominated Monday’s Surry County Board of Commissioners meeting as members deferred major spending decisions, ...

Mount Airy’s women’s wrestling team brought home a pair of medals from the Black Knight Gobbler Challenge on Nov. 25.

The weather is cooperating, in a negative kind of way, with freezing temperatures gripping the area this week — just in time for the opening of a warming station in ...

Around the turn of the 20th century, Jefferson Davis Smith built a late Victorian-Colonial Revival house overlooking North Main Street. Smith was a local merchant and landowner who operated a ...

For anyone nearly Lowgap Sunday morning who thought they were feeling a little bit of shaking -- it wasn't just imagination. There was a small earthquake centered there.

Surry County has again experienced the yo-yo effect of North Carolina’s economic tier rankings, moving from Tier 1 to Tier 2 ...