All traffic was held on a motorway this morning after a crash at a junction near Bradford.

Three Bradford men “from good families” stocked a York Air BnB with thousands of pounds of cocaine and heroin for sale in York, the city's crown court heard.

A Bradford school is celebrating after receiving an ‘outstanding’ judgment by the Catholic Schools Inspectorate.

COUNCILLORS have paid tribute to their late colleague Russell Brown during an emotional meeting in City Hall.

ETHAN Ryan is not even 30 yet, but the Bradford Bulls winger has been caught up in enough financial drama to last him a lifetime.

Controversial plans to create an eight bed HMO in an Idle building have been approved by Councillors.

COUNCILLORS must avoid becoming 'talking heads' and get on with the building of Skipton's 'Road to Nowhere', heard a meeting of North Yorkshire Council.

Manningham Housing Association will close its head office on Manor Row in Bradford next Thursday (December 18) until next summer while it undergoes a major refurbishment.

A man involved in Yorkshire-wide Class A drug dealing was caught with almost £8,000 in cash when police raided his home in Bradford.

POLICE are appealing to anyone at Skipton's Santa Fun Run who may have seen a collision between a pedestrian and a car.

THE Mayor of West Yorkshire, Tracy Brabin, has officially opened Bradford College’s new skills development space for the creative leaders of tomorrow.

FIVE Ilkley dads have completed the full 82-miles of the Dales Way to raise more than £11,000 for the children’s ward and incredible teams working in maternity and neonatal care at Airedale Hospital.

DEMOLITION work on a property where a house explosion has resulted in a main road being closed for over five months is now under way.

LIFE Church delivered more than 6,000 toys through its first-ever Christmas Toy Shop, run in partnership with Kids In Mind and Love Christmas.

Bobby Jethro, a stammering comedian from Bradford, has recently won two major comedy competitions in a week.

Housing developer, Barratt Homes, says its Bridleways development is more than 95 per cent sold out.

Young performers from the Pauline Quirke Academy of Performing Arts in Leeds and Bradford performed with opera quartet G4 at Bradford Cathedral.

Young artists from Palestine took part in a creative exchange programme connecting Bradford with the West Bank.

Mollie Browes has overcome homelessness and is now chasing a career in cancer research after graduating from Bradford University.

The Cononley Singers are set to host two festive "Ding Dong Merrily on High" concerts in Cononley and Kildwick.

EMS, a global equipment management company, has signed a major new lease in Halifax as it accelerates its expansion plans.

The Thornbury Community Pantry will officially open on January 15, offering affordable groceries to the Bradford area.

A new documentary about West Yorkshire Fashion Week will premiere for one night only at Showcase Cinema de Lux in Leeds next year.

Ashcroft care home in Bradford is reaching out to those who may be spending Christmas alone.

Staff from Barratt and David Wilson Homes Yorkshire West spent time supporting charities across the region.

A total of £800,000 will be shared between 110 community organisations in Bradford, supported by Bradford Council.

Yorkshire Water employees donated sacks full of toys to Bradford Central Foodbank.

New data shows that punctuality at Leeds Bradford Airport exceeded the national average in the first half of 2025.

Yorkshire-based technology firm, Slipstream Engineering Design, has secured a place on a major NATO accelerator programme.

Bradford College has been named a finalist in the ‘Apprenticeship Provider of the Year’ category at the 2026 Apprenticeship & Training Awards.

A festive concert held at Leeds Minster has raised thousands in vital funds in support of Macmillan Cancer Support.

Two long-running channels once loved by children have been axed from Freeview this week after more than 20 years on the air.

Sharaz Ali has been found guilty of murdering Bryonie Gawith and her three young children.

Recap of our live coverage of the fourteenth proper day of the trial of Sharaz Ali, 39, of no fixed abode and Calum Sunderland, 26, of Carlton Street, Keighley who deny murdering Bryonie Gawith, 29, and her young children.

The Alhambra Theatre kicked off the Christmas season by staging a festive evening featuring a barrel of laughs and a star-studded cast in the “fairest panto of them all”.

Two men were convicted of being involved with the deaths of a mother and three young children in a “catastrophic” house fire today.

The aunt of three children who were murdered in a house fire along with their mother has paid an emotional tribute to them.

An MP has urged the new chair of the national inquiry into grooming gangs to "immediately launch" a local investigation in the Bradford district.

Ring doorbell footage seen during a trial shows the shocking moment a “jealous” man enters a house with a petrol and lighter intent on murdering his ex-partner, her sister and her three young children.

Gorillaz will perform at Bradford Live next spring, it has been announced.

Police have named a man who died after his car went into a canal in the Bradford district.

A woman from the Bradford district has said she will have to leave her gym due to an "unaffordable" increase in membership.

A BRADFORD school that was forced to close over “unforeseen circumstances” has confirmed the issue related to a pest infestation in the school’s kitchen.

A court has heard how a man tried to stab a former friend in a moment of “pure madness” after confronting him in his own home.

Police have issued a warning after the seizure of a half dozen vehicles in the Windhill area of Bradford today.

Police have launched an investigation after an assault on a Bradford street.

Police have punished a driver for their windows.

COUNCILLORS have called for more restrictions on new drivers, with a Highways officer saying young drivers in high powered cars was a “recipe for disaster.”

A “violent racist bully” who broke a man’s arm during a road rage incident in Bradford is beginning a four-and-a-half-year jail sentence.

A Starbucks coffee shop branch has closed in the Bradford city centre.