New Zealand’s government is urging local councils to focus on core tasks and not direct scarce funds to convention centers or ...

Council leaders say that government money to run local services next year is nowhere near enough.

District councils could be abolished and more elected mayors introduced across England under new plans for a major redesign ...

Local elections could be delayed for up to a year for councils that are being overhauled, Angela Rayner has said. The deputy prime minister made the admission while outlining the government's ...

The coalition Government dived in quickly to reverse previous Labour policy and pushed numerous bills through Parliament to ...

The Deputy Prime Minister will on Monday publish proposals to give more powers to city mayors and local councils. The white paper on English devolution will also raise the prospect of the future ...

11 local councils did not submit their audited financial statements by the deadline, the National Audit Office (NAO) said. Auditor General Charles Deguara presented to the Speaker of the House of ...

Local councils are offering pensioners who have just missed out on this year’s Winter Fuel Payment hundreds of pounds worth of support to replace it. The support forms part of the Government’s ...

The Government thinks it’s getting all tough on it with local councils, but I think Christopher Luxon and Simeon Brown are just tinkering around the edges and they need to go harder. Instead of ...

The proposals were brought forward by the last Tory government to stop local authorities caving into campaigns by pressure groups. Councils faced a slew of calls to rename streets linked to slave ...