Wakefield

Yorkshire Sculpture Park’s new £3.6m visitor centre will open to the public next month, with an exhibition that invites the viewer to wrestle with the issues faced by farmers in India.

WE live in anxious times and the sources of that anxiety are manifold but have to do with an economic precariousness; a lack of confidence, a lack of trust in our political process and an uncertainly about who we are as a nation.

Police have pledged to hold a public meeting in Wakefield after a break-in at Outwood Memorial Hall.

England's 1966 World Cup-winning goalkeeper Gordon Banks left a Leeds crowd "star struck" during what is thought to be his final public appearance only months ago.

An army veteran who lives in Leeds will take on an epic endurance run to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day in the summer.

Maintaining current levels of housebuilding in Wakefield will be difficult, a senior council officer has said.

Police have made an arrest after being called to reports of a fight at Wakefield Westgate station.

Traffic is being held up after a car became stranded on a busy section of the M1 motorway.

A main route into Wakefield is partially blocked this morning after an accident which is causing three miles of tailbacks.

A VIBRANT, crackling red neon globe and a series of delicate glass flutes suspended from the ceiling playing haunting melodies. These are just a couple of the works of art that featured in The Hepworth Prize for Sculpture exhibition.

The reaction of one Yorkshire town to rumours about its Post Office closure speaks volumes about their value in smaller communities.

Senior executives at Post Office Ltd have been accused of “managing decline” instead of developing a sustainable business strategy as the dwindling number of branches offering “vital” services to communities across the region can be revealed.

A PIONEERING law to outlaw smoking outside all hospitals – and on all NHS grounds – is to be unveiled by a Yorkshire MP today.

A man has been sent to prison after threatening another with a kitchen knife and injuring two others who tried to intervene - over a £20 game of pool.

The Prime Minister’s Brexit process is getting messier each day and time is running out. Everyone is shouting at each other. The Government doesn’t seem to have any clear plan on what to do next.

Yorkshire MP Yvette Cooper has said her controversial attempt to delay Brexit if Parliament has not agreed a deal by the end of February is an attempt to inject some “calm and common sense” into the debate and avoid “a real risk we end up drifting into no deal by accident”.

Police today released images of a man they want to trace in connection with two burglaries in Wakefield.