A yellow weather warning has been issued by the Met Office as the forecaster predicts snow and ice across North Ayrshire.

The latest S&P Global construction purchasing managers’ index (PMI) scored 53.3 in December, down from 55.2 in November.

NORTH Ayrshire Council has raked in almost a quarter-of-a-million pounds from parking fines since enforcement was introduced. A freedom of information request submitted to the local authority has ...

Prosecutors and defence lawyers say an indictment will not be required to be brought against Luigi Mangione until mid-February.

Unlike many towns of a similar size across the country, Irvine does not have an official community events committee. And while Irvine Community Council is looking for volunteers to join its ...

The First Minister hopes the Government’s plans for a National Care Service will not be an ‘impediment’ to reaching a budget deal.

Jimmy Carter ‘s long public goodbye began on Saturday in Georgia, with the 39th US president’s flag-draped coffin rolling through his tiny hometown and past his boyhood farmhouse on its way to Atlanta ...

Actor Michael J Fox, US politician Hillary Clinton and Vogue magazine editor-in-chief Dame Anna Wintour will also be given the honour.

A fire that broke out at a shopping centre in Dallas has killed more than 500 animals, most of which were small birds, authorities said. The 579 animals in the pet shop at Plaza Latina in the ...

IT'S now 40 years since the Glengarnock steelworks - once one of North Ayrshire's biggest employers - closed its gates for good. British Steel announced in late December 1984 that the plant would shut ...

THIS week, we take a look back at the Irvine Times stories from late December 2004 and early January 2005.