North Yorkshire Council’s new deputy leader has pledged to make economic growth, business support and affordable housing central to the authority’s priorities after taking on one of its most senior political roles. Cllr Mark Crane [...]

Police are appealing for information after thieves broke into a shed in Thirsk and stole an electric bike and an off-road motorbike. The burglary happened at Kemps Yard, off Kirkgate, sometime between Wednesday, July 8 [...]

Police are urging parents to warn children about the dangers of playing on haylage and silage bales after reports of people entering private farmland in the Easingwold area. North Yorkshire Police has issued a community [...]

North Yorkshire Council will write to the government to highlight its opposition to plans to house migrants at the former RAF Linton-on-Ouse base after the proposal received cross-party support. Councillors voted unanimously to back a [...]

North Yorkshire Council leaders have been accused of “letting the harm continue” after they voted against debating a motion to reverse a controversial home-to-school transport policy. A Liberal Democrat proposal to discuss the rule change, [...]