UBER-style bus services, where people book rides from bus stop to bus stop using mobile phone apps, look set to be rapidly rolled out across North Yorkshire if a trial starting next month proves successful.
A COUNCIL officer charged with leading the economic recovery of England’s largest county following the pandemic has forecast “an absolute boom year” for businesses in the county, partly due to people having spent less during the pandemic and staycations.
A GOVERNMENT minister is to decide whether a £70m proposal to re-route the A59 at Kex Gill should go ahead after a global minerals firm urged him to scrutinise the scheme.
NATIONAL conservation bodies have raised concerns over a £60m scheme to improve safety on a major cross-Pennine route which has repeatedly been hit by landslips.
NATIONAL conservation bodies have raised concerns over a £60m scheme to improve safety on a major cross-Pennine route which has repeatedly been hit by landslips.
AN education boss for one of England’s most rural areas has pledged to continue to push the Government for fairer funding for schools in market towns and villages as well as extra money for high needs pupils.
A LOCAL authority facing a £75m shortfall of funding over the next three years is facing its “toughest decision ever” over how much council tax to demand from residents in the coming year.
MOTORISTS look set to face many more and larger 20mph zones after a road safety inquiry concluded action to cut risks for children was needed.
North Yorkshire County Council has agreed to submit a bid to create one unitary authority for the whole region as part of local government reorganisation.
THE Secretary of State for Local Government will decide between two contrasting proposals to create unitary authorities in North Yorkshire and York it has been agreed, despite claims a plan to create a mega council is riddled with errors and doomed to be rejected.
