Two Yorkshire brothers whose family home was effectively stolen from them in the Philips Trust scandal are to be compensated for the entire proceeds from its sale by Leeds Building Society.

Nadine Dorries’s Government department has admitted pushing for changes to Channel 4's annual report after being accused of trying to "nobble" the broadcaster into making amendments backing the case...

A Leeds man convicted of sending a racist death threat to Labour MP David Lammy is a 12-time Conservative local election candidate, The Yorkshire Post can reveal.

A £1bn post-Brexit annual cut in regional development funding raises major questions about how the Government will deliver levelling up, MPs on an influential committee have warned Chancellor Rishi...

Michael Gove has denied party politics has played a role in levelling up spending despite almost 90 per cent of areas to win Towns Fund cash being represented by Conservative MPs.

Officials in Nadine Dorries’s department pressured Channel 4 bosses to delete references to the publicly-owned broadcaster having a sustainable future from its annual report due to them being “at...

Brexit has exacerbated problems with a shortfall in lorry drivers - contributing to the supply chain problems being experienced in the shops, the head of a Yorkshire haulage company has said.

Introducing a wealth tax could bring in more than £200bn in extra revenue to fund public services, a new report by Yorkshire MP Jon Trickett has suggested.

Victims of Jimmy Savile are "appalled" by Prime Minister Boris Johnson wrongly claiming in Parliament that Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer had failed to prosecute him, a lawyer who helped represent...

More than 200 jobs are to be lost after an historic Yorkshire pork pie manufacturer went into administration – with rising energy costs cited among the factors in the closure.

When he was standing in the dock at the High Court nearly 20 years ago, subpostmaster Lee Castleton truly believed truth would prevail.

Pressure on under-fire North Yorkshire police commissioner Philip Allott to resign from his post at a public meeting tomorrow has intensified after the “overwhelming majority” of his 32-strong team...

Boris Johnson has been criticised by Yorkshire MPs for appearing to confuse Leeds and Bradford after causing surprise by suggesting the Government was considering bringing HS2 to the latter city.

Sheffield Council misled the public and the courts over its efforts to chop down half of the city’s street trees in a scandal representing a “serious and sustained failure of strategic leadership”,...

Sheffield Council misled the public, misrepresented expert advice and acted with a “lack of honesty” during the city’s tree-felling scandal, a damning investigation has found.

The engineer who designed HS2 today said the Government had damned Yorkshire to be left behind economically by cutting the county out of high-speed rail plans - and demanded that Prime Minister Boris...

Best-selling writer Anthony Horowitz has warned universities scrapping English Literature are the “first stirrings of a very cold wind from the Government”.

Sheffield Council bosses considered proactively killing thousands of healthy street trees at the height of the dispute.

Northern politicians and business leaders are to seek talks with the Government about delivering the full Northern Powerhouse Rail network - indicating they would be prepared for the region to pay...

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York MP Rachael Maskell has called for an extension to the free lateral test programme in England after highlighting that hundreds of people are in hospital with Covid in her city.

Fourteen officials running the local Labour party in Wakefield have dramatically quit in protest at a “stitch-up” selection process for the city’s Parliamentary candidate.

The Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell has labelled the Government's plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda as "depressing and distressing" in his Easter sermon.

People in the North of England are at risk of losing out on £300m for regional economic development after Brexit, new analysis has warned.

Sheffield Council officials repeatedly pressured South Yorkshire Police to arrest more anti tree-felling protesters - and even commissioned a barrister to outline potential legal action they could...

Yorkshire MP Stuart Andrew has been reappointed as a Minister - just 48 hours after quitting as one.

Liz Truss's claims to have grown up in the "heart of the Red Wall" in Leeds have been called "frankly laughable" by the MP who now represents the area she lived in.

The Forestry Commission has today concluded a 15-month investigation into whether the felling of over 5,400 street trees in Sheffield as part of a council highways project was carried out illegally.

Prince Andrew should relinquish his Duke of York title after agreeing to settle the civil sex assault claim against him for what is widely reported to be a multimillion-pound sum, a city MP has...

South Yorkshire Police worked on a secret joint communications strategy with Sheffield Council and highways firm Amey for a highly-controversial operation against anti-tree felling protesters –...

Former Sky darts presenter Dave Clark may have retired from the role as a result of Parkinson’s but his passion for life – and Bruce Springsteen – remains undimmed. Chris Burn reports.

Sheffield Council has ordered an independent inquiry into the management of its notorious tree-felling saga as part of a new power-sharing deal between Labour and the Green Party.

A new book tells the story of the successful campaign to stop mass tree-felling in Sheffield through the first-hand accounts of protesters – including the two authors. Chris Burn reports.

Police intended to push for prosecutions of Sheffield tree protesters due to the costs of sending dozens of officers to oversee felling operations on a daily basis in early 2018, transcripts from...