North Yorkshire's county and district councils are to be scrapped and replaced with a single authority covering the whole county. City of York Council will remain separate but all others will be ...

Mr Flinton said North Yorkshire was talking to other areas with existing town councils about what services they might like to run and were getting a “very sensible range of issues” including running ...

Plans approved in 2021 means North Yorkshire Council now provides services to a population of 618,000 people. It replaces the two-tier system of county and district councils, excluding City of ...

THE seven district and borough councils in North Yorkshire are to have their biggest powers stripped away next week, some 11 months before being dissolved and a unitary council being formed.

HUNDREDS of district councillors are being urged to back plans to split the governance of North Yorkshire and York, and some key services, into two. From November 3, Harrogate, Richmondshire ...

Battle lines are being drawn ahead of a government-imposed reorganisation of local government in North Yorkshire and York, with district and borough councils ploughing £175,000 of taxpayers ...

Political leaders in a North Yorkshire district have set out their ambition to market it as a 'working from home' hotspot to attract young people who no longer want to work in large offices after ...

The leaders of North Yorkshire’s seven district and borough councils have launched a campaign to find a “people-centred” alternative to the county council’s proposal for a single unitary council.

Elections to the county and district councils in North Yorkshire that were due to take place in May are being postponed for a year. It's because the government is asking for people's views on two ...

North Yorkshire County Council had backed the single authority plans, while the district councils except Hambleton, which rejected all options on the table, submitted a bid for two authorities ...