Fifteen county areas are bidding to be on Labour's fast-track for new devolution deals and local government reorganisation (LGR) with all applying to postpone May elections to make this possible.

Brentwood Borough Council has been putting ‘unnecessary barriers’ in the way of people accessing its homelessness services, ...

Bristol City Council has proposed permanently closing three museums in its bid to tackle a £51.6m budget gap for the next ...

A man’s 10-year battle to recover what he says is a £600m bitcoin fortune from a Welsh council’s landfill site has been ...

Manchester City Council has announced more support for local communities affected by the severe flooding on New Year's Day.

Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham has voiced his support for a ‘limited’ national inquiry into child grooming gangs.

The District Councils’ Network has warned that millions of voters will be ‘deprived of their local democracy’ due to plans to postpone some county council elections.

Accountancy alone will not be enough to end the ‘abomination' of statutory overrides for special educational needs (SEN) ...

There will be no cap on the number of areas included in the Government's devolution priority programme, a minister has said.

Senior councillors in South Cambridgeshire will discuss whether the council should monitor staff working second jobs during ...

The City of Edinburgh Council is set to vote through a visitor levy this month, more than six years after it began working on ...

The Government's three-year timetable for reforming social care has been labelled ‘completely unnecessary' by Sir Andrew Dilnot.