Year: 2026

A section of the A19 near Thirsk was temporarily closed today after police received reports of a naked man near the busy road. Emergency services were called to the A19, north of Thirsk, at around […]

Almost 250,000 working hours were lost to sickness at North Yorkshire Police last year amid concerns over comparatively high levels of long-term absence. A report going before the York and North Yorkshire Police, Fire and […]

A North Yorkshire village green which has no registered owner has been granted protected community status after being maintained by local residents for almost 60 years. The village green at Great Broughton, near Stokesley, has […]

A sex offender was found with indecent images of children on his phone after a police search unearthed a collection of illicit material. Michael Wells, 27, from Thirsk, went into Northallerton Police Station to sign […]

Patients living in rural parts of North Yorkshire who struggle to get to hospital are to be offered free transport from their homes to connect with a shuttle service to The James Cook University Hospital. […]

Emergency services were called after a vehicle overturned on the A1 yesterday evening. Fire crews from Bedale, Northallerton and Ripon responded to the single-vehicle collision on the southbound carriageway between junctions 51 at Leeming and […]

Plans for a major solar farm covering around 95 hectares of agricultural land in North Yorkshire are recommended for approval despite concerns from residents about the loss of productive farmland. Ampyr Solar Europe is seeking […]

Yorkshire Water has admitted a £1.5m scheme aimed at dramatically reducing storm overflow discharges into the River Ure in Ripon has not performed as expected. The water company said the number of recorded discharges from […]

A man has been jailed for five years after being found guilty of raping a sex worker in North Yorkshire by deliberately removing a condom during sex without her knowledge or consent. Eisen Vir Raganit, […]