A ‘COMMITTED’ and ‘principled’ Green Party candidate has tragically died whilst scrambling on the Langdale fells.

Efforts to raise £1.8m to fund a new rescue building are under way. Plans for a base in Penrith, Cumbria, for the town's ...

People in Westmorland and Furness are being urged to join the Great British Spring Clean 2025. The campaign, run by Keep Britain Tidy from March 21 to April 6, is now in its tenth year. It encourages ...

Since May 2024, primary schools across the county have been rescuing batteries from their bins at home as part of the ‘Baa-ttery Campaign’, so named because 3.2 million batteries are thrown away in ...

Videos show David Brett Westmoreland admitted he'd hit someone, that he'd been drinking and, later, his agitation that the charges included hit and run.

A vertiport is like an airport or helipad and would allow things like drones and other vertical take-off and landing aircraft ...

Alcohol and high speeds are believed to have been factors in a motor vehicle crash that killed a 22-year-old man last weekend ...

Westmorland and Furness Council shared details about three reported incidents in March, with some of the waste affecting food for local animals.

From soil testing to seed-saving, members of the Penn State Extension Master Gardener program are preparing to guide ...

THE NUMBER of households the council supports to prevent the ‘growing problem’ of homelessness has increased by nearly 40 per cent since 2019.

(Née Evans) (Birtley) Passed away in hospital on February 19th aged 72 years. Judith will be sadly missed by all her family ...