Local News from Friday, September 25th, 2026

Diesel prices have risen above £2 a litre at filling stations in the Harrogate area.

A new outdoor sauna and cold water bathing site is opening in Harrogate today (Friday).

Brackenfield School in Harrogate has met all required standards in its latest inspection, with praise for its teaching, pupil wellbeing and caring culture.

Rudding Park’s Adam Degg has been shortlisted for Hotel Restaurant Chef of the Year at the 2026 Hotel Cateys.

A public consultation could be held on proposals to pedestrianise one of Ripon’s historic city centre streets during the daytime and summer evenings.

Pupils from Masham CE Primary School have paid a special visit to a lifelong resident to celebrate her 100th birthday.

Matalan in Knaresborough is holding a reopening event tomorrow (Saturday) following a refurbishment.

Work has begun on a project worth more than £5 million to improve water quality in the River Nidd.

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".

Members of the Martin House Children's Hospice care team have run more than 100 miles to raise over £2,000 for the charity.

A new Youth Hub offering support to young people looking for work is set to open in Bilton in November.

North Yorkshire Police made 64 arrests during a 24-hour crackdown on serious and organised crime across the county.

Police are appealing to identify a couple after a woman was bitten by a dog at a Harrogate bar.

The "slight irony" of North Yorkshire Council using a picture of Knaresborough’s Viaduct Terrace before its collapse to advertise for its new chief executive has been pointed out as residents continue to press for the landmark to be repaired.