Let \(\Omega \) be a proper open subset of \(\mathbb {R}^n\) . We provide sufficient conditions about local weights for the two-weight norm inequalities for local versions of the fractional maximal and the fractional integral operator acting on weighted Lebesgue spaces. The techniques applied, based on the use of Sparse operators, allow to get similar results to those known for the non-local versions, thus improving the known results for the local ones. As applications we obtain, in the first place, an a priori estimate for solutions of \(\Delta ^m U=f\) in \(\Omega \) , acting on weighted Sobolev spaces involving the distance to the boundary and different local weights. In the context of Schödinger-type operators we also prove, as another application, the boundedness of the Riesz potential \(I^\alpha _\mu \) , where \(\mu \) is a Radon measure on \(\mathbb {R}^n\) .