Wakefield

A judge has adjourned sentencing of a Wakefield woman to obtain psychiatric reports after she set fire to her husband's bedroom causing more than £27,000 worth of damage.

Constructing HS2 will “change the character” of Yorkshire communities along the route and “may impact residents’ quality of life”, high-speed rail bosses have admitted.

‘YOU’VE just moved to Wakefield? Welcome – it’s a great place!’

A motorcyclist was seriously injured after coming off his bike in Pontefract.

Wakefield Council leader Peter Box has narrowly survived a vote of no confidence by the local authority's ruling Labour group.

Public spending cuts were central to the Government response to the banking crash. Laura Drysdale examines how Yorkshire’s services have been affected in the past decade.

A Yorkshire political leader has warned that councils could ‘go under’ as calls are made for investment into local government.

The global financial crisis was years in the making – but unfolded at stunning speed after Lehman Brothers collapsed in September 2008. Chris Burn looks at how Yorkshire was hit.

A globe-trotting landscape architect who created the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Garden at Windsor Castle is turning his attention to transforming the land outside a Wakefield art gallery. Phil Penfold reports.

THE Hepworth gallery is already a gem in Yorkshire’s cultural offering, welcoming 250,000 visitors in the past year. A draw for tourists from home and overseas, the Wakefield attraction now wants to transform adjacent land into a public garden to enhance the area’s appeal.

One person has died and another is in critical condition after a car hit a tractor and a wall in Wakefield on Sunday evening.

A JUDGE blasted police and magistrates who granted a serial rapist bail on SIX occasions before he went on to attack a woman in her own home in front of her child.

Firefighters have freed a woman from the wreckage after two cars crashed near a Wakefield village.

An investigation has begun after a fire broke out in a restaurant in Wakefield city centre during the early hours of this morning.