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• Pateley Bridge to host first New Year's Day cyclo-cross event

  The Nidderdale Showground at Pateley Bridge will be hosting a popular off-road cycling event for the first time on New Year’s Day.

• Harrogate MP welcomes government U-turn on family farm inheritance tax

  The MP for Harrogate and Knaresborough has welcomed the government's decision to amend proposed changes to the family farm inheritance tax.

• Santa Paws: Festive photo competition winners revealed

  The winners of this year's Santa Paws photo competition with Claro Hill Vets have been revealed.

• DalesBus reveals timetable over Christmas period

  DalesBus has published details of how bus and train services will operate across the Harrogate area over the Christmas and New Year period, with amended timetables in place on several days.

• Festive tractor run raises £45,000 for charity

  A festive convoy of more than 200 decorated tractors has raised more than £45,000 for charity after touring towns and villages across the Aire Valley.

• CCTV appeal after Ripon shop theft

  Police have CCTV images of two men they’d like to speak to following a shop theft in Ripon.

• Yorkshire Vet Julian Norton meets fans in Harrogate

  Fans of The Yorkshire Vet had the chance to meet one of the programme's best-known faces when Julian Norton appeared at an event in Harrogate earlier this month.

• Santa delivers gifts to Harrogate children on all-electric sleigh

  Santa delivered early Christmas cheer to families in Harrogate last week after arriving on an all-electric sleigh in the form of a decorated bus.

• Rudy's Pizza set to open new Harrogate restaurant

  A popular Neapolitan pizzeria with locations across the North is set to open in Harrogate.

• 75-year-old Ripon cyclist completes epic birthday challenge

  A member of Moonglu Cycling Club has marked his 75th birthday year by completing an ambitious endurance challenge involving long-distance cycling rides across the UK and abroad.

• Miriam Margolyes to visit Harrogate as part of upcoming tour

  Actor and author Miriam Margolyes is set to visit Harrogate next year as part of her new live tour.

• Towns must see benefits of any tourist tax, warns Harrogate MP

  Local MP Tom Gordon has warned that towns must benefit if a tourist tax is introduced in North Yorkshire.

• Police appeal for wanted man who could be in Ripon

  Police have launched an appeal to locate a man who could be in Ripon.

• Harrogate school 'takes Law into its own hands' with rare A Level course

  A Harrogate school is bucking the national trend by continuing to offer pupils the chance to study A Level Law – a course hailed by a former student as 'an amazing gateway' into the profession.

• CCTV appeal after motorbike stolen in Harrogate

  Police have launched an appeal after a motorbike was stolen from a Harrogate property earlier this month.

• Specsavers Harrogate hosts free after-hours clinic for homeless residents

  In an effort to provide accessible eye and hearing care within the local community, Specsavers Harrogate held an out-of-hours clinic for people experiencing homelessness around Harrogate in partnership with Lifeline Harrogate. 

• Man charged following Pateley Bridge hit-and-run

  Police have charged a man with two offences following a fatal hit-and-run collision in July that sadly claimed the life of 19-year-old Bailey Chadwick.

• Banyan in Harrogate set to close

  Banyan Bar and Kitchen in Harrogate is set to close next month.

• Knaresborough boys 'devastated' after beloved cat goes missing

  A family in Knaresborough is appealing for help after their pet cat went missing, leaving three young boys "devastated".

• Knaresborough tug-of-war tradition to return on Boxing Day

  Knaresborough's annual tug-of-war tradition is set to make a return on Boxing Day.