Work on a new council housing development – set to deliver dozens of affordable homes in a Leeds community – has reached a key milestone.

A popular outdoor activity centre based at a Leeds beauty spot is calling on local people to join their crew as they take to the water and celebrate a historic double milestone.

This weekend, the team at Leeds Sailing and Activity Centre will mark 20 years since they first set sail on the stunning Yeadon Tarn.

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.