Councillors are angry over Whitehall's U-turn on its decision to cancel elections in three areas.

Head of Public Affairs Matt Browne puts local government reforms under the spotlight, in search of vanished promises on nature recovery.

The Cumbria Combined Authority (CCA) and the Cheshire & Warrington Combined Authority have been officially created this week, ...

Patterns of cloud adoption across the UK public sector are anecdotally far from uniform, with central government bodies notably further ahead of their local government counterparts. But with Whitehall ...

The combined authority is formally established ahead of its first mayoral election in 2027 ...

Both Northamptonshire councils have once again been frozen out from creating a 'South Midlands' mayoral authority by some of their neighbours. The authorities could risk being isolated in a devolution ...

Potential investors would be right to question the value of courting us as a serious country, writes Jonathan Werran, chief executive of Localis.

Housing secretary Angela Rayner said the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill would "bring decision-making to a local level".

Portsmouth City Council has signed off plans for a combined authority covering Hampshire to Parliament for approval.

Downing Street has rejected suggestions Sir Keir Starmer is acting like a “dictator” amid a row over the Government’s move to postpone four mayoral elections. Number 10 said plans to push the votes ...

The Northamptonshire councils have suffered another blow in their attempts to secure a devolution deal for the region, as the government has greyed out the county in newly released plans for larger ...