There are no elections in either the Westmorland and Furness Council area or the Cumberland Council area this year, as both ...

At a local level town and parish councils provide services for residents and businesses across the UK - but how do they work?

The Campaign for Real Ale warned the county will see more pub closures later this year Since the start of the year 15 pubs in Cumbria have closed, new figures have revealed. The Campaign for Real Ale ...

Cumbria continues to experience a tourism decline since the pandemic as visitor numbers and profitability fell last year, new statistics reveal. New data from the Scarborough Tourism Economic Activity ...

A stranded goat rescued from a river and a teacher breaking the women's ultramarathon world record. Here are five stories you might have missed this week. An attempt to retrieve a goat, stranded at ...

Wild beavers have been confirmed in the Eden catchment. Beaver activity has been identified on the River Lowther, marking the ...

Archaeologists from Grampus Heritage & Training Limited uncovered the largest Viking Age timber building ever found in Britain near the village of Holme St Cuthbert in Cumbria, reported HeritageDaily.

Weapons including crossbows and axes can now be handed in as part of a knife amnesty scheme this week. Cumbria Police is participating in Sceptre, a national campaign running from May 18 to May 24 ...

Offering residents as much solitude as the Biblical garden it shares its name with, Eden is the most sparsely populated part of England. The area in Cumbria has only 26 people per square kilometre and ...

At a local level town and parish councils provide services for residents and businesses across the UK - but how do they work?

Whitehaven harbour's orange water woes, the opening of a bridge over a "crucial route", and a surprise lottery win - here are some of the stories which made headlines in Cumbria. Tributes have been ...