News

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 […]

Efforts to secure “fairer” parking charges in Northallerton would be stepped up if the town’s Business Improvement District wins the backing of businesses for another five years. Northallerton BID has put parking and access among […]

The Mayor of York and North Yorkshire says it is “shameful” that the county has no fixed speed cameras . David Skaith told members of North Yorkshire Council’s Richmond area committee that new long-term transport […]

North Yorkshire Council has launched a fresh consultation on its controversial school transport policy — prompting campaigners to question whether the authority will listen to residents this time. Parents, carers, schools and other stakeholders are […]