Phone calls for help to Newtown's Citizen's Advice Powys HQ for help have increased by twenty-five per cent.

A Newtown woman has been awarded a top award from Powys County Council for her work in the community.

Plans to merge two schools to form an 'all-age' school will be decided next week.

Work refurbishing Newtown Hafren entertainment venue, including the storm-damaged exterior cladding, is underway.

Applications to join sixth form courses in Newtown and throughout the county have opened.

Council says school developer will be expected to use local contractors and provide positive 'community benefits.'

A local author is to launch her new book at a local arts centre.

Ideas are being sought for arts projects that help combat loneliness in Montgomeryshire as part of a lottery application.

Plans to change post-16 education in Newtown and throughout Powys are likely to move forward on Wednesday.

Local crimes are too often not being recorded by the police, a damning policing inspectorate report has found.

Plaid Cymru and Labour see their vote share rise too, but it was a disappointing day for the Lib Dems 

The results of the Montgomeryshire Senedd election are expected later today.

Plans to build a tourist development between the villages of Aberhafesp and Caersws have been withdrawn for a second time.