Protests against asylum seekers are “still a real live issue” for local authorities, the new executive director of the ...

The Local Government Association plans to reduce the number of full-time equivalent positions with a six-figure salary, ...

Reform UK has gained 21 councillors in the latest wave of defections announced this morning, reaching a total of 963. The ...

Housing minister Matthew Pennycook has confirmed that the selection of the first new towns will be revealed in the "coming ...

Nearly half of councils eligible to request the cancellation of this year’s elections have asked to do so, LGC analysis has ...

Potential prime ministers talked devolution at the Institute for Government’s annual conference, writes deputy editor.

The government can take three practical steps to embed prevention at the heart of reform, writes the policy manager, ...

The Department for Transport has published a pothole rating map showing how effective it judges local authorities to be when ...

Ministers from the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government took questions from MPs on a range of topics yesterday ...

Increasing pressures on monitoring officers and the "exodus" of senior staff means more peer support is needed. Rachel McKoy, ...

Councils have raised concerns about how the Department for Transport produced ratings for its pothole map over the weekend ...

Local government finance experts  have said the provisional finance settlement is "a lot harder to understand this year", ...