North Northamptonshire is one of two local government districts in Northamptonshire, England. It is a unitary authority area forming about one half of the ceremonial county of Northamptonshire. It was created in 2021.^[6] Its council is based in Corby, the district's largest town. Other notable towns are Kettering, Wellingborough, Rushden, Raunds, Desborough, Rothwell, Irthlingborough, Thrapston and Oundle.

It has a string of lakes along the Nene Valley Conservation Park, associated heritage railway, the village of Fotheringhay which has tombs of the House of York as well as a towering church supported by flying buttresses. This division has a well-preserved medieval castle in private hands next to Corby – Rockingham Castle – and about 20 other notable country houses, many of which have visitor gardens or days.

North Northamptonshire was created on 1 April 2021 by the merger of the four non-metropolitan districts of Corby, East Northamptonshire, Kettering, and Wellingborough. It absorbed the functions of these districts, plus those of the abolished Northamptonshire County Council.

In March 2018, following financial and cultural mismanagement by the cabinet and officers at Northamptonshire County Council, the then Secretary of State for Local Government, Sajid Javid, sent commissioner Max Caller into the council, who recommended the county council and all-district and borough councils in the county be abolished, and replaced by two unitary authorities, one covering the West, and one the North of the county.^[7] These proposals were approved in April 2019. It meant that the districts of Daventry, Northampton, and South Northamptonshire were merged to form a new unitary authority called West Northamptonshire, whilst the second unitary authority North Northamptonshire consists of the former Corby, East Northamptonshire, Kettering, and Wellingborough districts.^[8][9]

The Council logo depicts Rockingham Castle, the River Welland and a Red kite - a bird of prey that has become strongly associated with the county of Northamptonshire and is particularly commonplace in the north-eastern parts of the county around Corby and Rockingham Forest.^[10]

North Northamptonshire Council provides both county-level and district-level services. The whole area is also covered by civil parishes, which form a second tier of local government.^[16]

The parish councils for Burton Latimer, Corby, Desborough, Finedon, Higham Ferrers, Irthlingborough, Kettering, Oundle, Raunds, Rothwell, Rushden, Thrapston and Wellingborough have declared their parishes to be towns, allowing them to take the style "town council".^[20]

• Achurch, Aldwincle, Apethorpe, Ashley, Ashton
• Barnwell, Barton Seagrave, Benefield, Blatherwycke, Bozeat, Brampton Ash, Braybrooke, Brigstock, Broughton, Bulwick, Burton Latimer
• Chelveston cum Caldecott, Clopton, Corby, Collyweston, Cotterstock, Cottingham, Cranford, Cransley
• Deene, Deenethorpe, Denford, Desborough, Dingley, Duddington-with-Fineshade
• Earls Barton, East Carlton, Easton Maudit, Easton on the Hill, Ecton
• Finedon, Fotheringhay
• Geddington, Glapthorn, Grafton Underwood, Great Addington, Great Doddington, Great Harrowden, Grendon, Gretton,
• Hardwick, Hargrave, Harrington, Harringworth, Hemington, Higham Ferrers
• Irchester, Irthlingborough, Islip, Isham
• Kettering, King's Cliffe
• Laxton, Lilford-cum-Wigsthorpe, Little Addington, Little Harrowden, Little Irchester, Loddington, Lowick, Luddington, Lutton
• Mawsley, Mears Ashby, Middleton
• Nassington, Newton and Little Oakley, Newton Bromswold
• Orlingbury, Orton, Oundle
• Pilton, Polebrook, Pytchley
• Raunds, Ringstead, Rockingham, Rothwell, Rushden, Rushton
• Shotley, Southwick, Stanion, Stanwick, Stoke Doyle, Stoke Albany, Strixton, Sudborough, Sutton Bassett, Sywell
• Tansor, Thorpe Malsor, Thorpe Waterville, Thrapston, Thurning, Titchmarsh, Twywell
• Wadenhoe, Wakerley, Warkton, Warmington, Weekley, Weldon, Wellingborough, Weston by Welland, Wilbarston, Wilby, Wollaston, Northamptonshire,Woodford, Woodnewton, Wollaston
• Yarwell

In terms of television, the area is served by BBC East and ITV Anglia which broadcast from the Sandy Heath transmitter.^[21] The Waltham transmitter can also be received which broadcast BBC East Midlands and ITV Central programmes. ^[22]

Radio stations for the area are:

• BBC Radio Northampton on 103.6 FM
• BBC Radio Cambridgeshire on 95.7 FM
• Heart East on 96.6 FM
• Smooth East Midlands (formerly Connect FM) on 97.2 FM, 106.8 FM, and 107.4 FM

North Northamptonshire is served by the following local newspapers: Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph and Northampton Chronicle and Echo.

• 2019–2023 structural changes to local government in England
• 2021 North Northamptonshire Council election
• West Northamptonshire for the other unitary authority created in Northamptonshire in April 2021.