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Low levels on reservoir on the Woodhead Pass.

Major update on £2bn tunnel plan connecting Sheffield and Manchester
The team behind plans for a £2bn tunnel beneath the Peak District to connect Sheffield and Manchester has been granted £500,000 to carry out feasibility works.

Harrogate and Knaresborough MP Tom Gordon lambasted the Autumn Budget as “lacklustre with little substance”.

Fury at 14-year prison sentences for people evading tourism tax

Foxglove Farmhouse

Next SFI budget will have to be £1bn, National Farmers' Union says

Cllr Dan Sutherland was accused of 'arrogance' for rejecting oral questions

‘Death of democracy’ - Public outrage over council's question time crackdown

The entrance to the Vine Street Materials Recycling Facility off Leeds Road in Huddersfield.

Dozens of redundancies as Yorkshire recycling facility shuts for good

Tram hole at Birley Lane.

Work to repair sinkhole at Yorkshire tram stop could cost £1.5m

Pupils in North Yorkshire using school transport.

Council accused of ‘illusion of listening’ over school transport consultation

The east bank of the River Hull, in Hull

Council to use £17m to build 850 homes after 20-year wait

Leeds Bradford Airport. Picture: Gerard Binks

Leeds Bradford Airport campaigners cast doubt on £750m economy benefits claim

Doncaster Sheffield Airport. Picture: Chris Etchells

Doncaster Sheffield Airport deal will be made ‘at earliest opportunity’

Councillors clashed over Rotherham's politics and town pride

'Rotherham is broken' - Councillors clash over town's pride and politics

Baroness Louise Casey delivers a speech during a visit to a care home in north London, on adult social care reform. Picture date: Wednesday July 29, 2026. PA Photo. Photo credit should read: Kirsty Wigglesworth/PA Wire

Governments 'asleep at the wheel' on social care, report warns

An artist's impression of the new headquarters for the North York Moors National Park Authority.

North York Moors park authority headquarters update from officials

Doncaster Sheffield Airport

Deal to purchase DSA to be complete at ‘earliest opportunity’

View east of proposed Burniston drilling site.

‘We are not having fracking in Burniston’ - MP hits back at appeal

Tolson Museum, Huddersfield, which still faces an uncertain future.

‘We want to get this right’ – Council gives update on future of Tolson museum

Hessle Children's Centre

Yorkshire mothers in fight to keep 'invaluable' children’s centre open

What was left of the bollards after they were cut down by the council contractor.

The curious case of Yorkshire Dales village’s disappearing bollards

Pontefract town centre

'Forgotten Communities Fund' - The ten Wakefield areas set to get funding boost

The LNER Community Stadium, in Huntington, York.

'Severe rowdy' behaviour fears over changes to York City's home ground

Jo Coles is Deputy Mayor for Policing, Fire and Crime in York and North Yorkshire

Wrong to assume only mega forces can do effective policing
Nobody in UK policing wants criminals to win. When senior leaders suggest otherwise, it is worth asking what they hope to achieve. Mayor David Skaith and I are incredibly proud of North Yorkshire Police. It serves England’s largest geographical policing area, from York to the coast and across rural communities.
Jo Coles

The Ridings Shopping came under the ownership of Wakefield Council on May 1 after the authority completed a deal to buy it for just over £11m.

The Ridings Shopping Centre demolition plan set to be scrapped

A Shaping Our Future school visit by Caddick Construction. Credit: Shaping Our Future

Neet crisis: Leeds scheme cutting persistant school absence by a third

Harrogate Spring Water has confirmed that it will appeal the refusal of its controversial expansion plans for its plant near the Pinewoods which would see the loss of trees at Rotary Wood. (Picture contributed)

Ministers urged to look nature laws over Harrogate Spring Water plan

In 2016, the UK voted to leave the EU - but post-Brexit deals kept Northern Ireland in the EU's single market for goods.

Brexit: rejoin promise will boost Labour in Yorkshire, poll claims

Andy Burnham laid a wreath at the Cenotaph, and was joined at the service by nine former prime ministers (Maja Smiejkowska/PA)

Andy Burnham: no veteran should be on the streets at Christmas

A partridge stands in an oil seed rape field. Camapigners have claimed shooting, farming and nature recovery go hand-in-hand.

Shooting ban would be ‘catastrophic for nature’

Sir Ed Davey visits independent retailers in Hull as the city gears up for a busy Christmas shopping season: the visit has led to calls for shoppers to support independent retailers during a pivotal period for the high street

Ed Davey champions Hull’s independent traders ahead of pivotal festive period

Environment Secretary Dame Angela Eagle speaking during the final day of the Labour Party Conference at the ACC Liverpool in September. Picture: Peter Byrne/PA Wire

Yorkshire Water's one-star rating is unacceptable: Angela Eagle

Shoppers out on the High Street. PIC: James Hardisty

Hull lands £2.6m government fund to revive derelict high street buildings

York and North Yorkshire Mayor David Skaith and Deputy Mayor Jo Coles on a burnt out section of Langdale Moor.

Yorkshire 'mega police force' would be 'a threat' to rural policing

A City of York Council sign outside West Offices

Autistic boy left without support to help him communicate for a year
A boy with autism was left without specialist support to help him communicate for more than a year by a Yorkshire council.
Mike Waites

Chancellor John Healey ahead of delivering the Labour Government's Budget to Parliament last week in the House of Commons.

MJ Gleeson hails John Healey's Your First Home scheme

Nicola Medalova is set to become CEO of Yorkshire Water

MPs demand action from new Yorkshire Water boss on pollution

Councillor Dr Tristan Learoyd points to where the new development could take place. Picture/credit: Andrea Learoyd

'Big trouble' - Councillor issues warning over plans for more homes in village

Tawny owls are among the creatures that take flight following fireworks.

The unseen victims of fireworks

Pier Terrace, Scarborough.

Seafront café wins planning appeal over controversial decking area

Shoppers pictured on the Shambles, York. PIC: Simon Hulme

Tourism tax in parts of Yorkshire takes step closer with legislation

Former Royal Air Force Station, RAF Linton-on-Ouse is pictured in the village of Linton-on-Ouse, near York. Photo by OLI SCARFF / AFP

Campaigners say minister ‘out of her depth’ over RAF asylum site

Nicola Shaw Yorkshire Water

Yorkshire Water: MP likens change to ‘shuffling deckchairs on the Titanic’

Bradford Interchange pictured in 2019. PIC: Tony Johnson.

Bradford Council leader '1,000 per cent' behind plans for through station

Sheffield Ski Village, in Parkwood Springs, which opened in 1988 and closed in 2012 after being destroyed by fire

Sheffield ski-village: Plans for new road unveiled as warning raised

The passing places would be created on narrow roads near the site of the proposed Stell Solar Scheme including Westfield Lane, pictured.

Passing places 'will not protect road users' near Yorkshire solar farm

Coun Salman Anwar wades into slavery apology debate: "Taxpayers’ money should be going to fixing roads in Kingston upon Hull, not Kingston, Jamaica."

'Focus on Kingston upon Hull not Kingston Jamaica' says councillor

Northallerton Market

Councillors warned jokes and banter can cause offence under new rules

The site of former Hull Grammar School was earmarked for student accommodation, but could now become a place of worship if plans are given the green light.

Former Yorkshire grammar school could become church and foodbank

Chief Executive Nicola Shaw had led Yorkshire Water for four-and-a-half years.

Call for Yorkshire Water to return to public ownership after pollution incidents

Rotherham Hospice cares for over 1,700 patients a year and needs to raise over £6 million a year to continue their Outstanding care.

Hospice leaders issue plea to John Healey over £2m shortfall in financing

Ben Houchen.

Two Tees Valley development corporations to be axed by Mayor Ben Houchen

The Sheffield Local Plan that could consume 800 acres of land on 14 green belt sites in order to build 3,500 homes by 2039 to meet demand.

Delayed Sheffield Local Plan could be hit by Labour-Green Zionism row

Left to right: Trevor Hicks, Andy Burnham, Jenni Hicks, Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC, Nia Williams. Credit: Caoilfhionn Gallagher

Campaigning Hillsborough family meet Andy Burnham at No10 North

Civic Office, Doncaster. LDRS photo

New councillors tell peer review they did not expect to be elected

The waste site at Hacking Lane in South Elmsall

Operator loses legal fight to extend life of 'putrid' Yorkshire waste site

Taylor's Sports Bar and Grill.

Otley Run venue appeals against bar permission refusal

Low Lane, Ingleby Barwick.

Detailed plans for 200 homes on fields in Yorkshire town revealed

A wildflower display created as part of the Walls in Bloom Project in Station Rise, York.

'Exceptional heat' prompts changes to York walls wildflowers display

The location of the proposed housing estate off the A61 at Ripon.

Plans for 190 homes to be built on fields on edge of historic Yorkshire city

The location of the proposed housing in Killinghall.

Developer says 140-home scheme on fields could help fund village infrastructure

Tgjones Signage, Westborough, Scarborough. Courtesy Of TG Jones.

Post Office closure: ‘Extremely concerned’ MP demands answers

Wakefield Council's cabinet has agreed to scrap two-hour free parking.

Wakefield politicians give views on scrapping two hours free parking

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