Police in Dorset are stepping up efforts to tackle shoplifting and support local businesses, with new figures showing success ...

RSPB Arne has unveiled a new seasonal trail, offering visitors a chance to explore areas of the Dorset reserve not normally ...

Indecent assault charges against Select Board member Jared Chadwick have been dismissed in Wareham District Court.

The Council chair, Cllr Stella Jones, said that to have the debate the authority would have needed a 5,000 signature public petition – the Ferndown petition achieving 11, 500. Wareham councillor Ryan ...

Scale replicas of 2,000-year-old skeletons unearthed in Dorset have been 3D-printed for members of the public to view and ...

A witness appeal has been issued after a man in his 70s suffered serious injuries after being hit by a car. As reported, ...

Footage of a fire ripping through a festival site has been released. Crews were called to the Rustic Stomp site, near Wareham ...

Watch the closing montage of the BBC's coverage of the 2026 Fifa World Cup featuring all the highs, lows and colour from the biggest World Cup ever.

Visitors to Wareham Town Museum will now be able to experience prehistoric burials in a completely new form at an exhibition of 3D printed graves at a local iron-age site. Being 3D printed also means ...

Firefighters say a heath fire was accidentally started by camping stove which set alight a tent. The fire then spread across a large area on Soldiers Road, Norden in Dorset. Crews ...

Part of a music festival site has been destroyed by a fire that started when a camping stove set fire to a tent. Fire crews ...

The little town in the UK that is the country's most walkable has been named. The title was awarded following an ordnance ...