Fewer patients are having to wait more than 18 weeks to start hospital treatment compared with two years ago, according to figures out today.

Preparations for work on the high speed rail line between London and Birmingham are forging ahead as two contracts worth a combined £8 million were awarded to companies.

Talks are being held to find out if a bus service running through Walsall, linking Cannock and Birmingham, can be saved after it initially faced the axe next month.

Radio stations in the West Midlands saw their listener numbers fall on average over the first quarter of the year, figures revealed today.

A witness appeal has been launched after a woman was touched  on board a train between London Euston and Birmingham.

Handsworth Grammar School, the oldest surviving selective school in Birmingham, is celebrating its 150th anniversary in 2012.

Huge tailbacks built up on the M6 at Walsall during a 20-hour operation to remove scrap metal which had spilled onto the carriageway after a lorry overturned on a road bridge above.

Mecca Bingo owner Rank is set to become the UK’s biggest casino operator after staking £205 million on a deal with rival betting group Gala Coral.

Leading parcels and logistics company UK Mail have raised a total of £83,083 for the year 2011/12 for Cancer Research UK.

Three people – two women and a man – have been arrested after the death of a baby boy who is believed to have fallen from a moving car in Birmingham.