Politics

A Calderdale Council community learning service which required improvement is now rated as “good” following its latest inspection by regulator Ofsted.

Calderdale will head to the polls next month to elect new councillors but how important will national party politics be to the final result?

Ten of the region’s town halls will elect new councillors next month, but how important will national party politics be to the final result? Rob Parsons reports.

More than 70 people have thrown their hat into the ring to contest Calderdale Council’s local elections next month.

THE GOVERNMENT has been urged to ensure harsher punishments for the “staggering” number of attacks on emergency service workers are enshrined in law as new figures show there have been more than 6,000 assaults on police officers, firefighters and front-line NHS staff in the region in just two years

The boss of one of the region’s main rail operators has described the timetable change being introduced next month as “one of the biggest the North has seen”.

The Calder Valley MP is calling on Calderdale Council to end its ‘incompetence’ after it received a warning from the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government

Taxpayers have stumped up £1.3m on external consultants used by Calderdale Council since 2012.

The £3bn of upgrades promised for a major rail route across Yorkshire should be “just the start of much-needed significant transport infrastructure investment”, one of the region’s most senior civic leaders said tonight.

The chief executive of Yorkshire Water has admitted his industry must “show new standards of public accountability” after a senior Minister warned major utilities firms that they must clean up their act or face tougher regulation.

Leaders of 18 Yorkshire councils have written to Theresa May urging her to commit to a region-wide mayoral election in 2020, ahead of a crunch meeting with the Communities Secretary tomorrow.

The Prime Minister Theresa May has helped launch the Conservative local election campaign in Calderdale with a visit to Brighouse.

Financially-stretched councils across Yorkshire are collectively set to overspend by more than £34m on services for vulnerable and at-risk children this year, new analysis has revealed.

Halifax MP and Labour’s Shadow Floods Minister Holly Lynch has criticised the Government for failing to include measures for tackling flood risk within its long awaited 25 year Environment Plan.

Private hire and hackney carriage drivers could be banned from using e-cigarettes in their vehicles under proposals being considered by councillors.

A controversial move which could have resulted in the closure of Hebden Bridge and Halifax Visitor Centres will not be recommended as a saving in Calderdale Council’s budget plans..