A man has been charged with attempted murder after a pensioner was left in a life-threatening condition after a stabbing outside a row of shops.

An art deco former office building in Wolverhampton is to be turned into 21 luxury apartments.

Domestic abuse services say victims will miss out on vital support after police refocused funding on hate crime.

Police in the West Midlands have been attacked more than 1,500 times during the Covid-19 pandemic, figures show.

A headteacher today demanded steps to ensure a level playing field for students as schools start their second full week in lockdown.

A reckless driver who sped down a main dual carriageway at up to 140mph and undercut other drivers has been banned from the roads and given a suspended jail sentence.

The car industry in the West Midlands could flourish as a result of Britain's trade deal with the EU, Andy Street has said.

A call has gone out to communities to apply for funding to enable people to get creative during the present national lockdown.

A rapid Covid test centre has opened in a library.

A West Midlands Police worker has left after 45 years.

A serving Staffordshire firefighter has died after being treated for coronavirus.

A driver was caught speeding at 90mph in a 50mph limit through roadworks on the M6.

A massive new warehouse has been given the green light for land north of Stafford.

Men wearing balaclavas tried to burgle a property in Birmingham.

A £24,000 fine handed to a Black Country company for dumping acid-coated wheel parts along a residential street in Birmingham accounted for more than 90 per cent of cash collected through waste enforcement fines last year.

A further 37 coronavirus patients have died in hospitals across the Black Country, Birmingham and Staffordshire.

A further 52 coronavirus patients have died in hospitals across the Black Country, Birmingham and Staffordshire.

A West Bromwich mother who complained about the food parcels she got for her son was told his free schools meals could be cancelled if she wasn’t happy.

Draft budget arrangements for the region’s next financial year have been criticised for how little is allocated towards achieving the 2041 net zero carbon target.

A planned affordable housing scheme in Darlaston will go ahead following fears it faced being scuppered by red tape.

"We can’t be certain" whether the 2022 Commonwealth Games will go ahead as doubt continues over the spread of coronavirus and its variants, the leader of Birmingham City Council has admitted.

A laptop which was left charging set fire to a bed in Birmingham.

People who must leave their homes during the lockdown are being urged to keep getting tested – as eight new community testing centres open across Staffordshire on Monday.

A new walk-through coronavirus testing facility has been launched in the Black Country in a bid to curb the spread of the virus.

An attempted murder arrest has been made after a man in his 70s was stabbed in Birmingham.

Six people were led to safety after a fire in Birmingham.

A number of arrests have been made after almost 150 people gathered as part of a protest held in Birmingham.

Almost a third of cars being driven on a main road in Wednesbury exceeded the speed limit during a speed check.

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A former bank clerk has been sacked from his job after intervening in a racist attack on a bus in the Black Country.

A person who travelled from Crewe to Wolverhampton to visit a friend has been fined by police for flouting coronavirus rules.

A man has been arrested after a series of domestic assaults which left three women injured in the West Midlands.

A man has been arrested after hundreds of pounds worth of items were stolen from shops at a retail park.

An investigation has been launched after four men wearing balaclavas robbed a taxi driver at gunpoint in Birmingham.

A man has been taken to hospital after being freed from a car following a head-on collision in Aldridge.

Cannabis worth almost £90 million was seized by police across the West Midlands last year as part of a crackdown on drugs gangs.

Anti-suicide messages aimed at school children are being distributed across Sandwell following two ‘serious incidents’.