Politics

It's the bold new plan to help tackle homelessness on Harrogate's streets, but our town isn't the first to trial the high-tech donation scheme.

School pupils in Leeds have suggested that Pacers could be used as a soft play area for children on the autistic spectrum as a contest was officially launched to find new uses for the much-maligned train carriages.

Senior council and community figures have called on Harrogate businesses to back the new  joint-initiative aimed at tackling street begging and homelessness in the town.

Incidents of threats and abuse towards council staff in Harrogate are on the rise, according to the union representing many of the authority's front-line workers.

Harrogate Borough Council have lodged plans to expand their Ripon business park.

A plan for 175-homes on the outskirts of a North Yorkshire village is set to be rejected, over concerns that it'll "reduce the gap" between neighbouring communities.

Harrogate looks set to adopt a new initiative to tackle street begging with contactless donations which has been pioneered successfully by other places round the UK such as Cambridge.

Community opposition is stirring against plans for a major solar farm in an idyllic part of the North Yorkshire countryside.

A personal column by the Harrogate Advertiser's Graham Chalmers

Organisers of Harrogate’s first Clean Air Day are celebrating progress in their campaign against exhaust fumes in a notoriously gridlocked part of town.

Dozens of complaints about rubbish going uncollected across the Harrogate district have been levelled at the borough council, after the authority undertook a major revamp of its bin collection routes.