It has been over four years since the coronavirus pandemic first resulted in Wales going into lockdown. A year into the pandemic, and as the vaccine started to roll out, it became evident that while we could beat the pandemic, the virus would be with us for years to come....
The emergency departments at a number of Welsh hospitals are under “extreme pressure” as they warn that patients can expect to wait a “considerable time” if it is not an emergency. The warning has been issued by Cwm Taf Morgannwg UHB that covers the Rhondda Cynon Taf, Bridgend and Merthyr Tydfil areas....
Welsh and UK Labour have refused to answer vital questions about the £200,000 donation that First Minister Vaughan Gething accepted from a man convicted of environmental offences. The row over the donation has overshadowed the first few months of Mr Gething’s leadership....
A leaked memo has sparked health and safety fears after revealing that a “significant concentration of formaldehyde” has entered a Welsh river. The internal document from Natural Resources Wales (NRW), which North Wales Live has seen, highlights serious concerns for staff tasked with work near the affected area....
Results from elections for the police and crime commissioner roles in Wales have been announced. There are four commissioners elected in the police areas of Wales - South Wales Police, Gwent Police, North Wales Police and Dyfed Powys....
An entirely black adder was spotted on a beach in Anglesey. The sighting has provoked a warning to pet owners to take care of their animals....
A charity has issued a warning over 25 beach and seafront destinations in Wales which have been polluted by storm sewage or given a poor water classification. Surfers Against Sewage, one of the UK’s most successful marine conservation and campaigning charities, has published the alerts on its website....
A family enjoying a stroll along a Welsh beach were left astounded when they spotted “something moving in the sand”. It was a large spike seemingly trying to burrow itself out of sight....
The location of every place in Wales where sewage was spilled into rivers and oceans, usually during bad weather, is made clear in a new map. In March the figures for these overflows were released and they didn’t make for pleasant reading - nearly a million hours of spills, an increase of 68% year-on-year, and a total of...
The more things change, the more they stay the same – an old adage which has taken on a new salience in the wake of the recent Labour leadership election in Wales....
The Daily Telegraph has published a long and detailed article to assess the leadership of Mark Drakeford. It is, as you might expect from a title that has published a series of opinion pieces criticising his policies, damning of the man who has stepped down as Wales’ First Minister....
Plaid Cymru’s leader has detailed his plans to win voters in the south Wales Valleys and take on new Labour leader Vaughan Gething in an interview with WalesOnline. Rhun ap Iorwerth said he not go into another cooperation agreement with Welsh Labour before the next Senedd election and called on the new First Minister Vaughan...
A wildlife expert told to walk along the Taff river in Cardiff was horrified by the volume of plastic rubbish he spotted littering the banks. Tim Birch called the pollution a “plastic crisis”....
“Thousands” of starfish have washed up on a Welsh coastline with scientists looking to weather changes for the reason behind the strange phenonemon. The creatures were spotted in various parts of the north Wales coastline, from Prestatyn, Denbighshire to Rhyl....
Another airline has pulled out of Cardiff Airport taking away the only direct route from south Wales to Paris. Eastern Airways has scrapped its route from Cardiff to Paris Orly less than a year after it was launched in April 2023....
The "stuff of dreams” is how one visitor describes this Welsh beach, which neighbours a national nature reserve and forest. You wouldn’t be wrong to think you were someplace on the west coast of the United States as you strolled among Corsican pines, with red squirrels scrambling up trees and a view of the glistening water...
Vaughan Gething has revealed his new-look cabinet. He has shaken up the portfolios and named new people to sit in the Welsh Government’s cabinet to lead on specific policy areas....
Vaughan Gething has won the contest to be the next Welsh Labour leader. The son of a Welsh vet and a woman from Zambia, the Cardiff South and Penarth MS is now set to be Wales’ first black leader....
The First Minister has been accused of undermining democracy after he refused to answer questions about Covid in the Senedd but was happy to answer them during a radio interview....
There were three main aims of any inquiry. Firstly, it is to establish what happened. Secondly to learn why and who is to blame. And thirdly to understand what can be done to prevent it happening again....
Teachers at a top private school in Wales have walked out in a row over pensions and pay. Members of the NEU Cymru at the Cathedral School in Llandaff, Cardiff, went on strike on Thursday and will take action again next week....
First Minister Mark Drakeford only learned he would be taking key decisions on Covid restrictions three days before the first UK-wide lockdown came into effect on March 23, 2020, it has emerged....
Last week came confirmation that the UK economy had entered recession. But it’s not just the economy that’s in reverse....
Senior Welsh Labour figures are furious that Vaughan Gething took a £200,000 donation from a company looking to build a massive solar farm on the edge of Cardiff. Cardiff-based environmental firm Dauson Environmental Group donated £200,000 to Mr Gething’s campaign to be First Minister, £100,000 of which came at the same...
Education staff unions in Wales, representing tens of thousands of school staff, have launched a petition with the Senedd demanding the Welsh Government withdraw plans to shorten summer holidays. They say proposals to change the school year dates “are not, and should not be, a priority for the education system in Wales”. A...
