Read the latest local news from Newcastle and the North East, including breaking stories, council updates, community issues, public services, neighbourhood developments, and important updates affecting residents, workers, families, and local businesses.
A rapidly strengthening El Niño in the Pacific Ocean could influence Newcastle and North East weather over the next six months, increasing the likelihood of wetter and stormier conditions during autu...
One of Britain's highest-profile academics is facing renewed scrutiny after fresh allegations surrou...
A new blue plaque has been unveiled outside North Shields Baptist Church to honour one of history's ...
Teenage girls from the Newcastle area are urging schools, parents and policymakers to take stronger ...
A site notice on a lamppost is often the first anyone hears about a development, but the planning system is far more open than it appears.
The discovery of another 800-plant suspected cannabis farm in the North East has once again shone a ...
More than six years after the first lockdown transformed daily life across Britain, COVID-19 continu...
The latest official migration figures show a significant shift in the UK's population trends, with n...
The amount of money Newcastle City Council could receive from the Home Office to help support asylum...
A set of trade union reforms lands in August and October, changing recognition, balloting, workplace access and what employers must tell staff.
Landlords face new duties, new paperwork and a strengthened enforcement regime, with civil penalties for getting it wrong.
A major factory fire at Washington's Crowther Industrial Estate sparked a large emergency response o...
Demand for allotment plots across Newcastle has risen sharply, leaving many applicants waiting years, but there are ways to get growing sooner.
Owning a listed home in Newcastle brings genuine prestige and equally genuine obligations, and the two are easy to confuse until work is planned.
In the space of just a few years, politicians and election candidates across the North East have bec...
A single body now enforces employment rights across the UK, consolidating functions that were previously spread across several organisations.
The water coming out of your tap in Newcastle has travelled further and been engineered more carefully than most residents ever realise.
Newcastle City Council has issued a passionate public statement defending the city's reputation for ...
A fourth heatwave of 2026 is taking hold across parts of the UK, with temperatures expected to climb...
