Police are appealing for help tracking down a young man said to have run away from home.

A balaclava-wearing carjacker stole a vehicle from a driver who was defrosting the windows in Halesowen.

Council tax is expected to increase by 4.99 per cent – as Sandwell Council continues with a £30 million scheme which gives people on low incomes a 100 per cent reduction in their council tax.

Emergency services were called to a two-car crash in Brierley Hill.

Covid infections in Dudley are falling but health bosses are warning residents not to be complacent and stick to lockdown rules.

Councillors have given the green light for a bungalow to be built on a Rugeley garage site.

The Rank Group slipped to a £48.6 million pre-tax loss in the last six months of 2020 after a challenging first half of its financial year.

It was almost the perfect murder. To all the world, Gurpreet Singh looked like a grieving husband whose wife had been cruelly snatched from him by burglars during a break-in at the family home.

A husband has been sentenced to life in prison after he was found guilty of murdering his seamstress wife at their Wolverhampton home.

A campaign has been launched to help vulnerable residents get the Covid jab as fears rise about the spread of misinformation.

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Council tax in Staffordshire is set to rise by nearly five per cent in a bid to address growing demand in social care.

Volunteers have come to the rescue of desperate ICU staff driven to breaking point by Covid-19 and forced to appeal for help with basic wellbeing items.

Two cousins are preparing to tackle a mountain challenge, dressed as grannies in aid of a hospital.

New images have been released showing what Dudley’s new £18 million leisure centre will look like.

Families who suffer the heartbreak of losing a baby at birth can now spend time together in a homely, private space thanks to a £70,000 fundraising appeal.

Mums-to-be in and around Pelsall can expect a more personalised approach to their care thanks to a new initiative.

The Ladder for the Black Country is actively supporting the ‘Rewrite the Story’ campaign by the Black Country Consortium to recruit enterprise advisors to support secondary and special education need schools across the area.

Just one year ago two friends took the brave leap to launch their own business creating handmade bespoke outdoor buildings.

MPs have called for a "complete step change" in remote learning to prevent inequalities worsening while schools are closed.

Production at a vaccine site in Wrexham has been stopped while police and Army investigate a suspect package.

Two men have been charged after a serious disorder which saw several weapons brandished.

A senior police officer who spearheaded efforts to bring a "callous" husband to justice has welcomed the guilty verdict after almost three years of police work.

A further 97 coronavirus patients have died in hospitals in the Black Country, Birmingham and Staffordshire.

A man has been jailed after he rammed a stolen car at a police officer on a motorbike in the Black Country.

A Black Country man has been jailed after admitting to a number of child sex offences, having travelled nearly 90 miles to abuse a child.

Job losses created by Covid could see poverty in Dudley become "rampant" as the number of benefit claimants increase over the coming months, it has been claimed.

A woman was attacked and robbed in her own home in the Black Country after arranging a date through a popular app.

Councils are expecting to deal with cases of Covid-19 into the 2030s, a Midlands expert has told MPs.

West Bromwich Albion have been given a boost after plans to enhance facilities at the club's Walsall-based training ground were given the go-ahead.

A man has pleaded guilty to the murder of a father in Wolverhampton.

A brave young girl has organised an energetic fundraiser in aid of Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.

A former pub doorman told an inquest he instinctively pushed a customer who then fell to the ground and struck his head because he thought he had been stabbed.

Police have been granted extra time to question two boys arrested in connection with the murder of schoolboy Keon Lincoln.

A man and a woman suffered serious injuries jumping from a first-floor window of a blazing house in Birmingham.

A man died on the tracks at a train station in Dudley yesterday evening.

A group was fined £200 for driving around without a reason before telling police the pandemic was not real.

Eighty per cent of new Covid cases in Sandwell are from the more recent and contagious strain of the virus, the borough's director of public health says.

More than 80 per cent of Covid cases in Dudley are the new more contagious variant.

Discount retailer Poundland saw a rise in festive sales as people rushed to the stores for bargain essential goods.

A jealous man savagely beat his pregnant ex-partner with a hammer after invading her home, a court heard.

An investigation has been launched after a teenager was stabbed in Tipton High Street in broad daylight.

Health chiefs have urged people to be “more stringent” as the region became the UK’s epicentre of the Covid pandemic with the national death toll now topping the 100,000 mark.

Virus levels are falling, but latest figures show the West Midlands is now England’s coronavirus epicentre.

About one in four people who have been in contact with someone with coronavirus in the Black Country and Staffordshire are not being reached by the test and trace system.

The jury in a murder trial over the death of a baby girl has been told of the five-month old’s final moments.

Staff from West Midlands Fire Service have joined the fight against coronavirus by volunteering with St John Ambulance to help deliver the vaccination programme.

“Serious concerns” have been raised about criminal activity around a former police station amid claims of trespass and criminal damage.

Schoolboy Jack Birt has taken on a marathon challenge to raise vital funds to help homeless people.

The outreach work of a city wrestling club is set to benefit from a funding boost.

The British auto industry needs to get its act together fast.

Homes and businesses left counting the cost for second year running.

A Birmingham hospital saw the region's second highest percentage of patients waiting an hour or more to be transferred from an ambulance, a report says.

A 21-year-old man from Birmingham has been charged on suspicion of terrorism offences.

Three men have been arrested for suspicion of possessing a firearm after a disorder in Birmingham.

A huge cannabis farm was discovered after police carried out a warrant in Brierley Hill.

Councils across the region will be holding events to commemorate a day to remember victims of genocide and persecution.

A pub which was seriously damaged by flooding for the second time in 18 months will take four weeks to dry out.

A further 155 people have died in hospitals and care homes in the Black Country, Birmingham and Staffordshire after contracting coronavirus.

A further 77 coronavirus patients have died in hospitals in the Black Country, Birmingham and Staffordshire.

Plans for a new new Midlands Air Ambulance base at Cosford represent "a vital development for the whole of the region", according to the charity's bosses.

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A man has been killed in a flat fire believed to have been started by a cigarette.

More than 400 Staffordshire firefighters now have access to lateral flow tests for Covid-19.

Two of the region's best loved comedians have taken part in a special video message about the coronavirus vaccine.

Britain’s jobless rate has soared to its highest level for more than four years as official figures show nearly 830,000 workers have been dropped from UK payrolls since the start of the pandemic.

Health bosses in Staffordshire have warned it is more important than ever to follow the rules and get tested regularly – as the new contagious strain tightens its grip on the county.

One of the largest regeneration projects in the West Midlands has taken a step forward as a planning application has been submitted.

West Midlands Ambulance Service will provide extra information for expectant mothers to ensure they know the procedure and likely travel time to hospital if home births become complicated, an action plan says.

Drivers were this morning warned to take extra care as plummeting temperatures overnight left some routes resembling 'ice rinks'.

A man had to be led to safety after a fire inside a 17-storey block of flats in West Bromwich today.

A mass vaccination hub at the Black Country Living Museum will aim to vaccinate 1,000 people each day.

An education boss has said teachers and parents are "unsettled" as they do not know when pupils will be back in schools.

More than 1,000 fixed penalty notices have been handed out in Staffordshire to people flouting Covid-19 rules, police chiefs have said.

More than 100 reports of businesses flouting coronavirus rules in Wolverhampton have been reported to council chiefs in a week.

A former world cycling champion and broadcasting legend is crossing his fingers an annual bike ride will be able to take place this year.

A regeneration programme that is expected to see £1 billion of investment in Dudley will be discussed at a scrutiny meeting next week.

A resident is calling for a council to make immediate repairs to dozens of potholes in a street – which he alerted the authority to last October.

A father described the moment his five-month-old daughter collapsed as “like a nightmare” when interviewed, a trial heard.

A man found with "nasty looking" weapons has been arrested in Staffordshire on suspicion of raping a woman in Telford.