3+ hour, 59+ min ago   (987+ words) An internationally acclaimed composer says he felt the weight of Welsh history on his shoulders in portraying a pivotal protest in a new opera that’s going on tour. Gareth Glyn’s latest work, Fflamau Penyberth (The Flames of Penyberth) commemorates the…...

4+ hour, 35+ min ago   (409+ words) Alec Doyle, Local Democracy Reporter Claims that an illegal dump site has now been licensed have been rejected as false by the local council. Land off Castle Road and Talwrn Road has been used for illegal waste disposal for weeks…...

17+ hour, 38+ min ago   (826+ words) Plaid Cymru politicians have called for a major consultation on the future of NHS services to be paused, warning that communities are being offered “different models of centralisation” rather than meaningful choices. Eight of the party’s elected representatives in Powys…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (383+ words) The Welsh Government are asking people in Wales to take part in a consultation on new measures to protect seals and hares. The consultation opens on 21 September and runs for four weeks. It asks for views on two proposals: making…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (1033+ words) YesCymru has once again called for devolution of the Crown Estate, highlighting the vast sums paid by councils across Wales for us to use our own rivers and shorelines, while ‘one in three of our children live in poverty’. According…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (459+ words) Welsh businesses, universities and health organisations are being invited to bid for a share of €6 million in European funding for digital health projects. Wales is one of seven areas eligible for the second funding round from UNITE, the European digital…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (757+ words) Questions are being asked after a Blaenau Gwent councillor who joined Reform UK with great fanfare last year quietly returned to being an Independent. Ebbw Vale South Councillor Jonathan Millard confirmed in December 2025 that he had joined the party led…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (690+ words) A conservation group has launched an unprecedented legal challenge against the approval of a controversial hydroelectric scheme at one of Eryri’s best-known waterfalls. Cymdeithas Eryri has applied for a judicial review of the Eryri National Park Authority’s decision to approve…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (443+ words) New legal protections for wild animals could be introduced in Wales under proposals announced by the Welsh Government. The plans would make it an offence to intentionally or recklessly disturb seals and introduce a statutory close season for hares, preventing…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (508+ words) The pressure on universities to change “will only increase” with Andy Burnham as Prime Minister, a university sector chief has suggested. It comes as the value of higher education is increasingly being questioned, Professor Malcolm Press, president of Universities UK,…...