A Tasmanian mayor will step down following a damning report that found significant failings of governance and conduct within the council.

Thousands of toiletries have been donated through a BBC campaign to help people who cannot afford basic essentials. More than ...

A small aircraft crashed on a street in Sao Paulo, Brazil’s largest city, killing at least two passengers, the local firefighter corps said in a statement. The plane went down in the Barra Funda ...

Dorset’s local authority offering salary of up to £200,000 – £34,000 more than the wage earned by Sir Keir Starmer A Liberal Democrat-run council will pay its new chief executive more than ...

Much of Dorset Councils' transformation programme to improve services while saving money, will be based about a wider use of technology to allow the public to interact with the authority.

Detectives and ambulance crews were called to the home in Poole, Dorset, at around 11.35am today where the two bodies were found inside. Dorset Police confirmed the man and the woman were known to ...

Residents have returned to a care home in Dorset where three elderly people died in one night. An 86-year-old woman and two men, aged 74 and 91, were found dead at Gainsborough Care Home in ...

A ‘magnificent’ Dorset church has won a prestigious architecture award ... to have been designed by Sir Christopher Wren for the church of St Antholin in the City of London. The repair and ...

Freighter finally free from Lake Erie ice after days of immobility ...