Year: 2026

Seven short-term care beds in North Yorkshire are to be decommissioned as health bosses shift resources towards providing more care in people’s own homes. The Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) is to […]

Police are appealing for information after three rings of “extreme personal value” were stolen from a home in Northallerton. The jewellery was taken from an address sometime between 7.45am on Tuesday, September 22 and Thursday, […]

Police are preparing for the possibility of “regular, sustained and significant protest activity” if controversial plans to house asylum seekers at the former RAF Linton-on-Ouse go ahead. North Yorkshire Police has warned that dealing with […]

A proposed 1,200-bed asylum centre at RAF Linton-on-Ouse would give a small rural community “city-sized problems overnight” without the resources to deal with them, campaigners have claimed. Linton-on-Ouse Community Action Group has described the proposed […]

Bedale High School has been praised for its rapid transformation after inspectors found significant improvements in achievement, attendance, behaviour and wellbeing just two years after it was judged to require improvement. Ofsted inspectors described a […]

More than 500 people from Afghanistan have now been resettled in North Yorkshire, according to a new report outlining progress with the county’s refugee programmes. North Yorkshire Council says 507 people from 100 households have […]

Campaigners have called on North Yorkshire Council to change its consultation on home-to-school transport amid concerns it risks becoming a “tick-box exercise”. The School Transport Action Group (STAG) has written to the council asking for […]

Campaigners opposing a battery energy storage system (BESS) planned for the North Yorkshire countryside say new figures raise questions about whether the scheme is needed. The group fighting the proposed Mowbray BESS scheme has highlighted […]

Talks have taken place over plans to provide more parking at Northallerton railway station following increasing pressure on available spaces. Representatives from TransPennine Express, York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority and North Yorkshire Council met […]

Plans to exempt terminally ill residents from paying council tax could cost North Yorkshire Council up to £2.2m a year, a new report has revealed. Councillors are considering a proposal which would mean people diagnosed […]