The troubled £660m national stadium project was left in limbo this week after the Football Association said it could no longer afford to finance the scheme, forcing the government to step in.
Prime Minister Tony Blair's vision of installing directly elected mayors in English cities is looking increasingly shaky as previously pacesetting authorities apply the brakes.
Transport funding in Scotland is lagging way behind that of England and is producing a two-tier system, according to the chairman of the government's Commission for Integrated Transport.
The government's anticipated £1bn profit from the restructured Channel Tunnel rail link project has been called into question by the National Audit Office.
A picture of departmental conflict and policy incoherence emerges in last week's report on waste management from the Commons' environment select committee. The result, it implies, is that local...
The government is to abolish the present system of local authority capital controls in favour of proposals in the green paper on local government finance.
The weather may have relented after what seems like the wettest winter since Noah, but Britain is ill-prepared for the next inundation. Its flood defences are still leaking like a sieve, according to...
Postal voting could replace polling stations in rural areas as ministers battle to keep the May 3 English local elections on course despite the spread of foot and mouth disease.
A black and minority ethnic (BME) housing association this week emerged as the largest single beneficiary of the Housing Corporation's investment programme for 2001/02.
The probation service must balance conflicting local and national demands on its resources if it is to improve its services, according to the Audit Commission.
A last-minute £188m cash injection into this week's local government finance settlement may not be enough to head off mounting pay and service pressures, warn councils.
Local government minister Hilary Armstrong is to send a seven-strong financial hit squad into the London Borough of Hackney to help the troubled authority deal with its budget deficit.
