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Only council tax rises above 3.5% will be able to stave off budget savings needed to maintain services as council has to make inroads into the £47m funding gap it faces.

The £20m building has been put on the back burner as the council faces a £16m budget shortfall

"What would it take for them to be open to a discussion to change the amount of houses they’re proposing?”

A leaked recording of crude, racist comments that resulted in the president of the Los Angeles City Council resigning from the post also provided a look into City Hall’s racial rivalries

LOS ANGELES — The chorus of civic leaders calling for L.A. City Council members Nury Martinez, Kevin de León and Gil Cedillo to step down from the City Council grew louder Monday, as U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla, Mayor Eric Garcetti and both mayoral candidates called on the embattled politicians to…

NEW YORK — At least 1,800 Latin American asylum-seekers arrived in the city over the weekend, signaling that the migrant wave is accelerating even as Mayor Eric Adams’ administration scrambles to shelter thousands of desperate travelers already in New York.

LOS ANGELES — The leaked audio of then-Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez privately making racist remarks was part of a “serious security and privacy breach” at L.A. County Federation of Labor offices involving “illegal” recordings of “many private and confidential conversations in private offices and conference rooms,” the…

"This is a most extraordinary situation that the council now faces and indeed the whole of Northern Ireland if nothing is done and very soon."

The council has secured a new company to run the Christmas market and ice rink - but city councillors say big questions remain over what happened with the original contract.