The Northern Echo BUSINESSiQ Awards 2025, in association with Amazon, shone a light on the North East’s most inspiring businesses and leaders ...

Today we name eight drivers who have been named and fined in court for driving offences in County Durham and Darlington.  They appeared at ...

Good afternoon, welcome to The Northern Echo's live coverage of the sentencing of Darren Harris at Leeds Crown Court.

The government is considering nationalising British Steel in a bid to protect its future - as the Scunthorpe plant “hangs in the balance”.

An anaesthetist who carried out an indiscriminate attack on a Northallerton shop owner has been locked up for life for attempted murder ...

A NHS trust has confirmed it carried out a ‘thorough internal review’ following the theft of drugs by a Middlesbrough would-be murderer.

A lorry overturned on a busy roundabout near Darlington today, causing traffic delays. Police were called to a roundabout on West Auckland Road, near Heighington at 9.50am today (April 11) after a ...

Some voters in the North East will be going to the polls next month – in the first set of local elections in our region since Sir Keir ...

A Change.org petition has been launched calling for mandatory in-person GP appointments for children after the death of 2-year-old boy.

Residents are fighting to save their "vital" community pub after plans were lodged to turn the building into a home.

Jason Tindall updates on Alexander Isak and Anthony Gordon and tells of how Newcastle have prepared for Manchester United in the absence of ill ...