Firefighters have urged members of the public to avoid the Coast to Coast route as they tackle a fire in County Durham

Residents of a County Durham village have expressed their fury after council officers discovered 30 hypodermic needles in a well-used piece of grassland that children regularly play on.

A man has been jailed for his involvement in the theft of, and the handling of quad bikes, stolen from rural properties last year.

A woman has been fined after failing to comply with investigations into waste being dumped in County Durham.

A burglar who stole sit-on lawnmowers from a Cumbria farm and a County Durham address has avoided jail because he looks after five kids and 18 horses.

A 28-year-old man from Bishop Auckland has been arrested after a livestock trailer worth £6,000 was recovered as part of a cross-border crackdown on rural crime.

Price initially claimed he bought it from scrap men in a pick-up van he flagged down in Woodhouses, near Bishop Auckland, but in a subsequent police interview gave mostly “no comment” replies.

The latest #OpCheckpoint initiative was ran on Thursday night in partnership with officers from Durham Constabulary, Cleveland Police and Cumbria Constabulary and Northumbria Police.

A community has come together to recreate a magical fairy land in a County Durham woodland after vandals tried to destroy it.

A farmer who convinced his girlfriend he worked for the Secret Service while living a James Bond-style fantasy is behind bars after police found a gun hidden in his chicken coop.

Durham Police are investigating after some of its officers were confronted by 50 ‘intoxicated’ youths at the end of last week after trying to confiscate alcohol from the teenagers.

A four-year-old boy died after falling from a motorbike he had been riding with his seven-year-old cousin, an inquest heard.

A Car has ploughed into the front of a house in a quiet County Durham VIllage.

Red Honda 500 quad bike stolen between 12-5am this morning (Friday 10th June 2022) from the Darlington area, #NorthEast England.

A police chase has shattered the quiet of a village on the outskirts of Darlington this morning as a pursued vehicle ended up hanging over a millpond