The Latest Breaking News from Welsh Government

4.7% council tax increase planned for Merthyr next year

Full council will consider this and the budget proposals at a meeting on Wednesday, March 8

Wales Online · Mar 3, 2023

The story of getting Richard Burton a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame

It was a decade ago that one of Wales' greatest ever actors was recognised after the successful Star for Burton campaign

Birmingham Post · Mar 3, 2023

'I waited over 140 days to start cancer treatment and I counted every one of them'

Ailsa Guard from Swansea claims she went five months "with not a single action being taken to treat the cancer I had been told I had"

Wales Online · Mar 2, 2023

Councillor opposes 'silly' planned exceptions to Cardiff 20mph rule

Cardiff Council has proposed sections of roads in the city which should retain a 30mph limit

Wales Online · Mar 1, 2023

NHS workers will get an extra pay rise in Wales even as strikes set to continue

Several individual unions remain in dispute with the Welsh Government but a deal has been struck to get workers the extra 1.5% salary rise

Wales Online · Mar 1, 2023

The full list of schools shutting in Cardiff as teachers strike on March 2

Nearly all schools in the city are affected as thousands of teachers walk out across Wales in row over pay and funding

Wales Online · Mar 1, 2023

The full list of schools shutting in Swansea as teachers strike on March 2

Nearly all schools in the city will be affected in some way by the walk-out

Wales Online · Mar 1, 2023

Merthyr Council to participate in empty homes scheme after plan to charge higher tax on long term empty properties labelled 'all stick and no carrot'

The council has said it is committed to bringing as many empty properties as possible back into use in the county borough

Wales Online · Mar 1, 2023

Support for Welsh independence at its lowest level for three years, St David's Day poll for WalesOnline shows

An exclusive poll by YouGov for WalesOnline to mark St David's Day highlights the challenge facing the independence campaign

Wales Online · Mar 1, 2023

Nurses in Wales could announce further strikes after rejecting new pay offer

However most health unions have accepted an average pay rise of more than 7% for 2022/23

The Independent UK · Feb 28, 2023