A FATHER and son from Widnes have been brought before the courts after their dogs were recorded barking 9,638 times on one day alone.

A new £30m leisure centre has been opened by a council to make health and fitness "affordable" for residents. Halton Leisure Centre on Moor Lane in Widnes in Cheshire was built to replace Kingsway ...

Four Halton care homes become first council-run sites to gain veteran-friendly status, improving support for Armed Forces residents.

Halton Borough Council has hailed the latest English Indices Of Deprivations (EID) as evidence that quality of life has been maintained in Halton over the last few years. The local authority said ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Volunteers counted election ballots in the DCBL Stadium, Widnes -Credit:Liverpool ECHO (Liverpool ECHO) Labour cemented their ...

Halton Borough Council is set to approve a nearly five per cent increase in council tax and charges for second homes this week. The borough's budget of almost £149.5m for the coming year will include ...

Teaching assistant staff at the school were informed of the news on Monday. Halton Council says Runcorn has more than 1,200 surplus school places and this figure may still rise. The stadium could ...

Thousands of low income pensioner households will get a free £130 payment before Christmas. Halton Borough Council is awarding the cash to pensioners who are in receipt of council tax reduction or ...

British Cycling has teamed up with Halton Borough Council to get school children across the area on their bikes. The council has been awarded funding from the Department for Transport to develop the ...

An ominous first set of results for the Labour Party in our region as Reform UK take 16 of the available 19 seats ...

People using the Mersey Gateway must pay the charge online or in a shop within 24 hours of making their journey Halton Council was wrong to have delegated bridge fine challenges to a contractor, a ...

A council-run bus company has gone into liquidation after seeing losses rise by more than 1100% in two years. Halton Transport, which runs more than a third of services across the Cheshire borough, ...