For Volunteers' Week (1-7 June), meet the team and volunteers looking after Leeds’ 865 kilometres of paths winding through woodlands, city streets, farmland, riversides and open countryside.

Leeds City Council is encouraging residents to be prepared for summer and heatwaves after the UK records its hottest ever day in May.

Ancient artefacts discovered inside a Bronze Age burial mound in Leeds are revealing fascinating insights about life and death in some of the city’s earliest communities.

Excavated during archaeological investigations on a modern-day housing project in Drighlington, the rare finds are believed to have been buried as part of funeral rituals carried out by local people around 4,000 years ago.

People in Leeds have got the chance to play a supporting role during one of 2027’s highest-profile sporting occasions – the Grand Départ of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift.

Over 3,000 pieces of sports kit have been donated to community groups and schools to tackle inequality and improve access to sport.

Councillor Stephen Holroyd and his consort, Simon Mapals, yesterday became the first openly gay couple to hold the office of Lord Mayor and Lord Mayor’s Consort of Leeds.