The Black Country Chamber of Commerce's president, Sarah Moorhouse, is to become its next chief executive.

Dudley's biggest annual beer festival will go ahead again this year.

There will be night closures on a busy section of road over the next few weeks.

A Wordsley pub has won the Campaign for Real Ale's West Midlands county title.

Joe Lycett is proud to come from the West Midlands and still loves going down to his local for a pint.

A series of works on the Midlands Metro will close sections of the line over two time periods.

One of the UK’s leading strategic manufacturing outsourcing specialists is aiming to help businesses get access to the expertise they need to grow.

A leading business management software specialist has invested more than £200,000 in creating a new programme that will help solve the current skills drain in the technology sector.

Almost 40 people were killed and over 500 were seriously injured on roads in the Black Country and Staffordshire last year, figures show.

Hundreds of criminal cases due to be heard at courts in the Midlands will be postponed in the coming weeks as barristers strike over pay and working conditions.

The family of a former photography technician have been awarded damages by a university after she contracted a cancer associated with asbestos exposure and later died, lawyers say.

An MP who boycotted the England football team for their taking the knee is coming to Dudley for a night of "fun straight talking".

Plans for a new £20 million college campus in Dudley borough potentially funded through Government cash has been hailed by leaders as "exciting".

A midwife and pioneering matron who “worked all hours God sends” is retiring after more than three decades at Walsall Manor Hospital – on her 55th birthday.

Health system is in a mess and the status quo will not do.

Traffic on a busy motorway section was hit with severe delays after a collision forced a temporary road closure.

Scores are feared dead following the strike in Kremenchuk which occurred on the day Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the G7.

A global soft drink brand has joined the list of providers for the 2022 Commonwealth Games.

The memory of a much-loved and much-missed MP was honoured through a community bake-off competition.

A charity which raises much-needed funds for neonatal units has been given a lifeline after fears over the future of its shop.

Penn Fields School students have staged an art exhibition which showed the importance of people bouncing back after the pandemic.

Patient levels are still some way below the peak reached during the previous wave.

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, opening the second reading debate on the Bill, said the UK continues to raise issues of concern with the EU.

A grieving mother has spoken of her family's continued pain and suffering 10 years after her son was murdered.

A beloved eight-year-old cat who was badly hurt in a suspected collision has been saved thanks to vet charity PDSA.

A former Wolverhampton man who attacked a woman leaving her covered in bruises has been jailed for 15 months.

A small bungalow in Cradley Heath will be converted into a two-storey house with four bedrooms, despite heavy objections from worried neighbours.

A Sandwell councillor who was re-elected this year is under investigation by the council after a court case where he pleaded guilty to assault by beating.

A £20 million funding bid to improve Halesowen town centre have been backed by local MP James Morris before plans are submitted to the Government.

Businesses are set for a boost in tourism and trade after it was revealed more than half of the million tickets sold for the Commonwealth Games are to people living outside the region.

Police are growing concerned for a man who has been missing from his home in West Bromwich for nearly a month.

A fundraising campaign has been launched for those made homeless after a house exploded on Sunday evening.

The University of Birmingham has launched the Employer Advisory Board to support tech students starting a career in the digital world.

Comedian Tim Vine is performing in Sutton Coldfield to raise money for serving and veteran soldiers.

A unique collectable coin has been created to help mark the upcoming Commonwealth Games in the region.

Data firm Experian said the average price of a litre of petrol at UK forecourts reached a new high of 191.1p on Sunday.

A 64-year-old man has gone missing from Russells Hall Hospital in Dudley, raising fears about his safety.

Boris Johnson was speaking at the G7 summit, where Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky was pleading with world leaders for extra help.

Emergency crews were called out after two vehicles crashed in Albrighton.

Luhansk governor Serhiy Haidai said Russian forces were pounding Lysychansk after capturing the neighbouring city of Sievierodonetsk.

A woman has died and a man has suffered life-threatening injuries after an explosion completely destroyed a house in Birmingham.

Criminal lawyers have taken industrial action in a dispute over pay and conditions.

Carrie Stokes, founder and director of Spotlight Accounting in Shifnal, is a finalist in the Woman Who Achieves Awards, in the Business Growth category.

A man escaped with his life after being pulled to safety from the wreckage by around a dozen Good Samaritans but a woman has died.

People looking to attend the Commonwealth Games have been given a list of some of the big medal sessions open for tickets.

A council leader has defended the decision to open a new traveller transit site as it welcomed its first arrivals.

A new Lidl supermarket could be built on the site that once housed a much-loved bowling alley in Wolverhampton ravaged by an arson attack almost 10 years ago.

A serving West Midlands Police officer has been charged after allegedly abusing his power for a sexual purpose.

The male casualty was pulled from the burning wreckage of the home in Kingstanding, Birmingham, after the gas explosion on Sunday night.

A Wolverhampton councillor has hosted a celebration of Jo Cox's life, six years after the MP was murdered.

A house has been destroyed and several others severely damaged in an explosion on Sunday evening.

Dozens of new council homes will be built across parts of Sandwell under new plans.

Black bags full of cannabis were dumped on a residential street in Smethwick - and police have invited the owner to come and claim the drugs.

Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner were sentenced to death by courts in a Russian proxy breakaway state in eastern Ukraine.

A historic building once controversially earmarked to become a 23-bedroom home for several people will now provide new apartments on a gateway into Walsall town centre.

Birmingham's O'Neill's, Broad Street, is reopening this week after being closed since May for a refurbishment.

Two masked men threatened a teenage girl with a knife at a park in Wednesbury.

The BMA doctors’ union said there needs to be a culture change in the NHS.

The Langley Band is performing two summer concerts at the Barlow Theatre in July.

Police want to speak to a group of youths after a man was beaten and robbed in Walsall.

Sandwell Council has been found to be in breach of its statutory duties after reports show it knew for at least five years it did not have an up-to-date map of public rights of way in West Bromwich.

A man from Kidderminster has been charged with murder after another man was stabbed to death.

Previous Strictly Come Dancing contestants Maisie Smith and Rhys Stephenson joined the professionals for Strictly Presents: Keeeep Dancing! at Wolverhampton's Grand Theatre, and it is fair to say they did not look out of place.

Ten years ago, the Express & Star embarked on a Black Country Census.

Three men who suffered life-changing injuries in a fight involving knives in Wolverhampton remain in hospital as police investigations continue.

Live bands, wrestling, prehistoric Pre Hee Men and cooking classes with a twist are lined up at this summer’s free Walsall Arboretum Carnival.

The man is in a life-threatening condition following the explosion in north Birmingham.

Tamworth Castle has been officially approved as one of the best small visitor attractions in Staffordshire.

Staffordshire Police has launched a new local policing model aimed at speeding up call-out times across the county.

Two day nurseries have been awarded top 20 ratings by an online survey for the second year running.

The Group of Seven leaders are holding a summit in the German Alps, with the initial focus on Ukraine.

The leaders are meeting in the German Alps, focusing chiefly on the invasion of Ukraine.

Sporty students at Sutton Coldfield school got a team talk with a difference – when they met a former leading figure in The Football Association

Wolves Foundation are one of the many club charities that run the Premier League’s Primary Stars initiative, using the appeal of football to support five to 11-year-olds in the classroom, the playground and on the sports field.

Sales were up 50.7 per cent for Cake Box, the cream cakes retailer, in the year to the end of March.

Vulnerable tenants in the Black Country are now being forced to pay for electric through pay-as-you-go meters in their rooms.

Plans to improve patient access to GPs in Wolverhampton are to be outlined by health bosses next week, as the city continues its recovery from the Covid pandemic.

Four historic buildings at Dudley Zoo will undergo a major refurbishment under new plans.

The father of the WBC world heavyweight boxing champion has thanked Wolverhampton for another warm welcome after Tyson Fury delighted fans in the city at a weekend event.

The preparations had been meticulous. Thousands of rounds of ammunition had been carefully laid out as the men of 3 Parachute Regiment patiently bided their time for a midnight attack.

A community first responder has hung up his flashing blue lights after serving his community for 15 years.

Visitors to Snowdonia should pay a 'tourism tax' to make up for the disruption they cause, a North Wales politician says.

Eleven aspiring ballerinas from the same studio are busy practising their arabesques after scoring a 100 per cent audition success rate for the classic Swan Lake.

They are self-confessed petrolheads – and now they have a little extra help to push them along the road to success.

Selling the wife – it's a Black Country thing. Or was.

Hundreds of kind-hearted residents hit the track for a sponsored walk to help raise much-needed cash for good causes.

Residents have been urged to be vigilant after three people were spotted "acting suspiciously" on the driveway of a home in South Staffordshire.

Almost 2,000 brave supporters of cancer charities put on their running shoes for a mud-covered obstacle course and raised £125,000 for medical research.

The Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice group is considering bringing a judicial review over the failure to provide a setting-up date.

Police are appealing for help to find a driver who fled after a crash involving a car and a van in Stourbridge.

The people of Eccleshall held a late jubilee party and it was a monster of an event with live music and entertainment of all sorts.

A Black Country council has entered a formal negotiation around remaining a brownfield authority.

A man who fled into a bar after being shot in the leg remains in hospital whilst investigations continue, police have said.

Wolverhampton MP and army veteran Stuart Anderson is appealing for more residents to pledge to support service military staff.

Police have arrested eight more people after a £160,000 drugs and cash swoop, on top of 11 arrests in drugs raids earlier this week.