Verwood councillor gets approval to ban live animals as prizes on Dorset Council land

Police stop and search numbers in Dorset increase by 25 per cent with stolen goods as most common find

Dorset shipwreck mystery solved by maritime archaeologists from Bournemouth University

More than 20 arrests in Dorset as police across the South West join forces to target drug criminality

Emergency services respond to reports of a teenage girl falling from bridge near Alum Chine

Stolen Ferndown digger found.. in Poland

Dog rescue and re-homing centre refused planning permission

Revamped web app makes it easy to access food across Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole

Sandbanks Ferry to be out of service for two weeks in November due to refit

Improvement work for Moors Valley Railway Kingsmere station agreed by Dorset Council

New trustees and co-chairs are welcomed at mental health charity Dorset Mind

Social care housing contract potentially worth in excess of £170m over ten years advertised

New movie shot around Dorset by Bournemouth-based director to get Lighthouse screening

BCP residents invited to register now for 2025 garden waste collections 

Van collides with low railway bridge closing Lake Road in Poole

Almost a third of waste in the wrong bins but Dorset Council is still one of the best for recycling

Series of hard-hitting videos to show young people the true impact of knife crime

Lewis Manning’s Candles on the Lake initiative returns to Poole Park for 7th year running

Three colleagues from the University Hospitals Dorset Trust to climb Mount Kilimanjaro

Body of man in his 50s found in woodland next to Sainsbury’s store in Ferndown

Significant investment planned for three leisure centres under new management

Man arrested and person in hospital following multi-vehicle collision on A338

Refurbishment and new year head for St Edward’s School 6th form in Poole

BCP Council in talks with other Dorset and other councils to create new larger authority