A Carlisle car salesman has been jailed for his part in a £120,000 identity fraud scam

An ex-Cumbrian council leader jailed for 10 years for sexual offences against schoolboys has admitted more charges

Carlisle's only American football team – the Border Reivers – are inviting people to join them at the biggest Super Bowl party in the county tomorrow night

Cumbrian beer fans have leapt to the defence of the firm behind the controversial Top Totty ale which was kicked out of Parliament for being sexist

Community trainers are hoping that football manager Harry Rednapp's admission in court that he can hardly write will spur others on to learn

Seven finalists in the a Young Master Chef competition wowed the panel of judges with their exciting culinary creations

The number of people dying on Cumbria's roads has halved in five years from a high of 60

Police in Cumbria have high standards when recording details of crimes and a good level of contact with victims, an inspection has found

News & Star readers have been celebrating after winning a wedge of cash to help out in these difficult economic times

Five candidates will contest the Cumbria County Council by-election in Carlisle’s Castle division

Carlisle United’s Matty Robson and team mascot Olga the Fox helped opened a new outside area at the Bishop Harvey Goodwin School

A birthday party has taken place to mark the first 10 years of a scheme which has transformed the lives of thousands of families across Carlisle

Cumbria's closure-threatened household-waste tips have been thrown a lifeline by the county council (13 comments)

A man has appeared in court charged with murdering a Cumbrian woman after a fire at a property in Kendal

Labour and the Greens have accused Lib Dems of wasting taxpayers’ money by forcing a city by-election (5 comments)

One of Cumbria's most historic buildings is set to be reopened to the public this year (6 comments)