Local News from Friday, October 30th, 2026

Santa will visit a Harrogate veterinary practice next month to help raise money for Make-A-Wish.

Pannal Players will bring the curtain down on four decades of pantomimes with a farewell production of Snow White.

A man has been jailed for six years and six months after stabbing another man in the neck outside a pub near Ripon.

North Yorkshire Council-owned Brierley Homes would have gone into administration, leaving the authority facing losses of more than £20m, without a £3.4m taxpayer-funded bailout, it has emerged.

A man has been jailed for three years and eight months after violently assaulting his former partner in Harrogate.

Police are appealing to identify a cyclist following criminal damage in Blubberhouses.

Harrogate's Street Rangers have started cleaning around the Cenotaph ahead of Remembrance Day.

Yorkshire Garden Centres has raised more than £106,000 for Martin House Children's Hospice.

Harrogate's Stray Bonfire returns next weekend with an earlier fireworks display and a headline performance from UK Foo Fighters.

A Harrogate Taekwondo master has represented Great Britain as a referee at two international championships.

Yorkshire Water's chief executive is to step down, just 24 hours after the company received the lowest possible environmental rating.

Harrogate’s Poundland faces an uncertain future as the retailer seeks a rescue deal.