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Wakefield Council set to approve £500,000 funding to help the RFL purchase Post Office Road stadium and establish a successor club in Featherstone after…
Read the full story →Wakefield Trinity reach their first Super League Grand Final against Warrington Wolves on Saturday. The club aims for its first league title since 1968.
Brantwood Hall in Wakefield rated inadequate by the Care Quality Commission after inspectors found residents at risk of harm and lacking compassionate…
Wakefield Council has rejected plans for a multifunctional communication hub featuring a 24-hour defibrillator on Westgate, citing concerns about visual…
Reform UK won 58 of 63 seats in May's Wakefield elections. Leader Karl Johnson has doubled road marking budgets and reversed the council's climate…
Wakefield Council launches lane rental scheme charging firms up to £2,500 a day for roadworks on busy routes during peak times to reduce disruption.
Motorbikes have caused significant damage to City of Wakefield Golf Club off Horbury Road, with the fifth and sixth greens most affected. The course has…
A 28-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting a teenage girl in the kitchen aisle of Asda on Asdale Road, Wakefield on Thursday…
A 66-year-old cyclist has died in hospital following a collision with an Omoda 5 SUV on the A636 Denby Dale Road in Wakefield on Wednesday evening.
Wakefield Council's Reform-led administration is set to abandon its 2030 carbon-neutral pledge and cut climate change spending by £170,000 after winning…
Fieldhead Hospital in Wakefield has submitted plans to install 614 solar panels across five buildings, aiming to cut energy bills and reinvest savings…
Dave Iveson's banana plant has flowered for the first time in his Wrenthorpe tropical garden after 12 years, aided by recent hot weather.
A Wakefield family is raising funds for life-saving treatment for their son Eliyas Bashir, who has a developmental condition.
A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder following a house fire in Pontefract on Sunday evening in which a woman died.
A tea-themed version of the Otley Run pub crawl is being organised to raise money for neonatal equipment at local hospitals, swapping alcoholic drinks…