Year: 2026

North Yorkshire Council is facing fresh calls to abandon its controversial new home-to-school policy after it emerged that the authority was not following its own rules on how to assess eligibility. To determine whether a […]

North Yorkshire Police have released CCTV images of two men they want to speak to following a shop theft at a Northallerton supermarket. The theft happened at Sainsbury’s on the High Street on Wednesday, July […]

A council-owned housebuilder will honour a commitment to pay £131,000 towards community improvements agreed when planning permission was granted for a new housing estate. Brierley Homes, which is owned by North Yorkshire Council, has faced […]

A North Yorkshire councillor has broken national records by raising more than £17,000 for Macmillan Cancer Support after having his head and beard shaved. Councillor Arnold Warneken, who represents the Ouseburn division on North Yorkshire […]

Police have issued a CCTV image of a man they would like to speak to following an alleged assault in Easingwold. The incident happened outside the Galtres Centre in Market Place, Easingwold, at about 12.30am […]

A 13-year-old boy is assisting police with their enquiries after a fire involving hay bales on farmland near Northallerton. Emergency services were called to Bullamoor Road at about 3.30pm on Monday, August 3, after reports […]

A drunken wheelchair-bound man threatened people inside a pub with a metal bar and assaulted a police officer while threatening to spread a contagious disease by throwing a sock seeped in his own blood and […]

Broadacres Housing Association has secured a major new contract to more than double the number of vulnerable people it supports across parts of North Yorkshire. The housing association has been awarded North Yorkshire Council’s new […]

A man has been jailed for sexually assaulting a young woman while he was high on drink or drugs. Tobias Harvey-Light, 31, attacked the victim at a flat in Northallerton as she tried desperately to […]

Opposition councillors are demanding a fresh vote on controversial changes to North Yorkshire’s Lifeline service after claiming disputed advice prevented a councillor from taking part in a key decision that could have changed the outcome. […]