Train drivers belonging to the Aslef union will walk out in a long-running dispute over pay on Saturday.

A Black Country post office is set to re-open in January – boasting new opening times and a new location.

A breast cancer patient has raised almost £3,500 for two wards at a hospital in the Black Country after climbing up Shropshire's most famous hill with help from friends.

West Mercia Police’s Steer Clear programme has received national recognition, winning a Howard League Community Award 2022.

The Government has refused to confirm vital funding that will "safeguard the future" of Britain's waterways and canals.

Nurses are to hold two days of strike action next month in a dramatic escalation of the pay row raging across the NHS.

Security guards with no medical training have been left in charge of mentally ill patients in Walsall for thousands of hours a year.

Two brothers who ran a county lines cocaine network from their home in Smethwick have been jailed for a total of more than 18 years.

Plans to open a new burger restaurant and takeaway in Wolverhampton city centre have been given the go-ahead.

A group of Wolves fans at the World Cup were invited to lunch with a Qatari millionaire.

Birmingham New Street, Coventry, and Birmingham Moor Street are the region's busiest railway stations, closely followed by Wolverhampton.

A deputy headteacher has vowed to be a "strong voice" for Wolverhampton in Westminster after she was named Labour's parliamentary candidate for a key target seat.

Some of the most magical train journeys of the year are given the right this weekend when the first Polar Express trips of 2022 begin.

Students in Staffordshire have traded in their school ties for football shirts as they prepared to cheer on England in the Qatar World Cup.

A plant sale will be turning festive this weekend while raising money for a stroke charity.

The Shakespeare Festival in Stafford could be moved to the town’s Gatehouse Theatre next year to ensure it goes ahead.

A crash on the M6 in Staffordshire led to long delays for motorists.

Extra trams will be running in the region at peak times leading up to Christmas following the end of long-running strike action.

A walk-in health centre in Wolverhampton will be closed on Friday.

Over £4 million is being spent on a crucial revamp of Dudley Council House which councillors say will improve disabled access.

Cinema heritage campaigners have ‘warmly welcomed’ a decision not to allow an historic former Walsall cinema and theatre to be turned into flats.

Proposals to build 10 much-needed new homes on a stretch of disused land in a Wolverhampton suburb have been given the go-ahead.

Wolverhampton University workers braved downpours to join the picket line at University of Wolverhampton's City Campus as they began the first day of strike action.

Hednesford's new Poundstretcher store is opening on Friday, December 2, at 9am.

He is the pawsome police dog named after England’s football captain Harry Kane.

A man has been arrested after police discovered a suspected 'chop shop' in Great Barr.

A children’s Christmas rave has been refused permission to go ahead in Sandwell due to fears of crime and of kids running through the streets causing chaos.

A drunken son who murdered his own father after a family row in Wolverhampton has been sentenced to life with a minimum term of 15 years.

More than £100,000 could be spent on a new scheme to tackle traffic outside three primary schools during drop off and pick up times.

A driver escaped serious injury in a crash near Bridgnorth.

Fire crews remained at the scene of a severe blaze at a former nursing home in Walsall on Thursday evening, 17 hours after first being called.

Dramatic images show crews battling the third severe blaze in just three months at a former nursing home in Walsall.

Thousands of people are expected to attend Wednesbury’s Christmas Lights switch-on event on Saturday.

Walsall Council has approved the construction of 51 affordable homes on Willenhall's former Eagle Works.

A surge in sales and the completion of a £7m investment drive has helped a Staffordshire large packaging specialist land one of the sector’s biggest awards.

Severn Trent Water has donated £67,000 to Staffordshire charity AEDdonate as part of its Community Fund programme.

Black Friday offers are available from retailers across the country and online, and businesses across the Black Country, Staffordshire and Shropshire also have special offers on.

Five people have been charged after multiple vehicles thefts in the region.

More than £8,000 has been raised for the families of two teenagers who were killed when a car crashed off the road and into pedestrians in the Black Country.

A dedicated training programme has been rolled out across the Black Country to help GPs and health workers recognise and support domestic abuse victims.

A survey asking women and girls how safe they feel in Wolverhampton has been completed by more than 700 respondents.

Councils in the Black Country spent more than £2 million on a major housing masterplan before it was controversially scrapped, it has emerged.

Aldi and Lidl have issued an urgent warning over two of their dairy products amid health concerns.

Picket lines have been started outside postal delivery and sorting offices as well as universities in the region as the dispute over pay, jobs and conditions continue.

A man from Walsall who carried out a string of sexual offences including rape and possessing child pornography has been locked up for almost 22 years.

Most people have a second team when it comes to major tournaments and England are playing.

The first charity shop has opened up at the Merry Hill shopping centre.

An application to demolish a parade of empty former shops in Wolverhampton city centre has been made to the council.

Swimming pool temperatures are being reduced by the trust running leisure services in Stafford Borough to help cut energy costs.

The derelict Foresters Arms is a familiar sight for those who live in and near to Wolverhampton.

A mental health trust has admitted that a call handler wasn’t trained to be able to deal with the desperate pleas for help from the family of a brilliant and sensitive young finance graduate who later took his own life.

Plans to build two new homes on the site of former residential garages in a leafy suburb of Wolverhampton near the city centre have been given the go-ahead.

A pedestrian has been taken to hospital with serious injuries after being hit by a car at a junction in Dudley.

Football and bowls players will pay more for hiring pitches and greens in Stafford Borough next year after inflation-busting fee increases were agreed by councillors.

Cannock Chase District Council have approved the recommendation to spend £70,000 on a new website.

A plan for supermarket giant Aldi to take over a vermin-plagued old Brownhills shopping centre is set to be rubber stamped.

A former police commissioner and prospective Labour parliamentary candidate for Wolverhampton has been charged with drink driving after a late night smash.

Midland sports fans have the chance to own a piece of history with a tranche of memorabilia up for auction next week.

An off-duty police officer accused of fighting in Walsall town centre told a jury he was trying to protect his family.

Picket lines are being mounted outside postal delivery and sorting offices, universities and schools.

Wind and rain is set to batter the Black Country and Staffordshire today.

These photos show the rundown interior of a pub that's set to soon be given a makeover and reopened to customers.

Lord Digby Jones says the Government should have introduced means testing for pensions when it confirmed the triple lock will stay.

A teenager from the Black Country has been arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences.

The Lichfield based charity cashback website has bucked the "cost of giving crisis" with £1.27 million donated in the last three months.

A plan to build new homes on the car park of an old Walsall library has been thwarted by a controversial tax designed to support an out of town beauty spot.

It's that time of the year where a big man in a red suit gives out gifts for Christmas, but a Black Country businessman has taken matters into his own hands by dishing out £10,000 worth of trainers to school pupils.

A man accused of attempting to murder a woman in Walsall failed to arrive to his court hearing.

Football can be a cruel game.

Pensioners living in and around Bilston have been invited to pick up free Christmas food vouchers next month worth £7 each amid the cost of living crisis.

Police have released images of two people they would like to speak to after a teenager was robbed of his phone near Smethwick Galton Bridge railway station.

Three Staffordshire volunteer police cadets have been recognised at an awards ceremony for their commitment to their community.

A crumbling disused car park in Dudley could soon become a four-storey apartment building.

An historic former Walsall cinema and theatre will not be converted into flats after a proposal was thrown out by planners.

Father Christmas and his woodland helpers will be familiar faces at the Rock Houses, Kinver.

A man from Kidderminster has been sentenced to more than five years in prison for multiple offences.

More than 16 years after the high-speed crash that nearly killed him, Richard Hammond's touching story about his time in a coma has gone viral.

A Sandwell man has been jailed after admitting charges of sexual assault.

Members of the CWU are set to strike again on Thursday and Friday in a long running row over pay, jobs and conditions.

Former teachers of two teenagers killed when a car crashed off a road into pedestrians have paid tribute to the pair.

Retailers need to “immediately accept responsibility” for selling laughing gas, the West Midlands police boss has said after revelations the drug is causing “permanent neurological disability” in some users.

Police chiefs are planning to use voluntary security staff at major events as concerns about “chronic labour shortages” in the private security sector continue following the Commonwealth Games.

It was an afternoon lesson of a different kind as pupils at a Staffordshire school sat down to cheer on England.

Jude Bellingham's World Cup debut could hardly have gone better, scoring his first international goal and England's first of the tournament.

A former landfill site in Walsall could be transformed into a major development aimed at boosting job opportunities in the borough.

Police have appealed for information over a missing 15-year-old girl with links to Wolverhampton.

Wolverhampton's own Beverley Knight has been left "chuffed and humbled" after being handed a prestigious award for her outstanding contribution to musical theatre.

Four pupils are preparing to run 32 laps of their school field, one for each World Cup team, to buy more sports kit for their school.

A new festive World Cup beer will see Santa score all the goals this football season.

A major pub chain is offering free pints to England and Wales fans during the World Cup – but there's a catch.

A service station in Wolverhampton has submitted plans to demolish a car wash on its forecourt in order to build an electric vehicle (EV) charging zone.

The veteran landlord who hopes to take over a Black Country bar dogged by violence has promised to fill the place with an older clientèle during the afternoon.

Two lorries crashed on the M6 causing more than seven miles of congestion.

Construction of Wolverhampton's new £50 million "learning quarter" in the city centre will start in spring next year after a construction firm was chosen, chiefs have said.

Police have named the 16-year-old girl and 19-year-old man who were killed when they were hit by a car in Oldbury.

Urgent action to stop the spread of bird flu has been issued in Staffordshire after a new case was found in the county.

Some 27% of shoppers anticipate spending less money on Christmas this year and 10% plan to spend more this Christmas, NielsenIQ said.

A warning to stop the spread of bird flu has been issued in Staffordshire after cases were found in the county.

The retail chain reported underlying pre-tax profits of £29 million for the six months to September 30, down from £57.9 million a year ago.

Police are appealing to try and find a missing man from Walsall.