The national employers for local government services tabled the offer earlier this ... Any industrial action will be of their own making. We are calling on council leaders to come to the negotiating ...

Photo / David Hall Councils like the Tauranga City Council need to get back to basics, Local Government Minister Simon Watts says. A bill will be introduced directing councils to get back to ...

Voters left a school levy contest ... "That's making us feel that if it's tied, that's not a majority by definition," he said. "So that means the levy would fail in that instance." Madison Local ...

Here the PA news agency looks at the state of play in every council and mayoral contest. All estimated declaration times are for Friday May 2. The Conservatives’ long dominance of local politics ...

Any industrial action will be of their own making. We’re calling on council leaders to come to the negotiating table and offer fair pay.” Announcing the pay offer’ for council employees, chair of the ...

Much remains unclear as municipal leaders reckon with how much property tax revenue they stand to miss out on from the 345-page SB 1, an overhaul of local government finance signed into law by ...

But votes have been delayed in some areas - including East Sussex and Norfolk - until 2026 due to an overhaul of local government announced earlier this year by the new Labour government.

Voting will cover local government elections, parish council elections, local authority mayoral elections, combined authority mayoral elections and combined county authority mayoral elections.

A total of 1,641 council seats are up for grabs across 23 local authorities ... at a time when the then-Conservative government, led by former prime minister Boris Johnson, was enjoying a spike ...

Several photographers from the Fredericksburg region were recently recognized in Scenic Virginia’s annual Virginia Vistas Photo Contest, now in its ninth year. Edward Episcopo of Fredericksburg ...