Two people have been arrested and a suspected stolen quad bike recovered after a police chase.

New police hubs could be introduced in more rural areas in North Yorkshire in order to improve response times, according to a senior officer.

A farmer in the North Yorkshire Moors has been left frustrated after a sheep had to be euthanised following a collision with a car.

Three sheep have been rescued from a car which crashed in a ditch near York.

Four poachers are having to get rid of their family pets and pay at least £1,490 each after they were convicted of illegal animal hunting in Ryedale.

Three arrests have been made and potentially-dangerous weapons seized in an operation to tackle the theft of farm machinery.

A man has been ordered to pay almost £3,600 after admitting failing to dispose of waste correctly.

A business which produces frozen vegetables for supermarkets has agreed to pay more than £23,000 for spreading waste sludge without permission.

Fire crews in North Yorkshire were called out to four farm fires in the space of two days last month

When spoken to by police, the tenant of the plot, Leslie Shooter, 57, stated that he had set a number of traps to control rats. However, he had not covered the traps as required by law, resulting in the trapping of the bird.

North Yorkshire Police’s Rural Task Force is appealing for witnesses and information about the shooting of a Red Kite which happened near Westerdale, on the North York Moors.

POLICE have released CCTV images of three people they would like to speak to following a vehicle theft in North Yorkshire.

Hayden Fortune, 47, had admitted using threatening/abusive/insulting words or behaviour to cause alarm and distress towards husband and wife inspection team Duncan and Tracy Thomson on October 25 last year.

Two Hen Harriers have vanished in suspicious circumstances in just two weeks within the Bowland Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) and nearby North Yorkshire.

Five men have been arrested after rural residents called the police about suspected poaching crimes occurring on North Yorkshire farmland.