On these pages we bring together news from Wakefield Council and other news sources across the district and region.

The council's news releases and the Citizen newspaper are produced by the council's press office. If you would like further information about these please contact the press office (see link below).

Media professionals - getting the answer 

If the information you are looking for is not here and you are a media professional then get in touch with the council's press office directly through the contact page (see link below). 

Please provide us with your name, organisation and contact details as well as your deadline. We will do our best to respond as quickly as possible and if your enquiry is urgent, or to a same-day deadline, please phone as well as email.

We will work with you towards a successful story and in return we ask that all media uses the press office as their first point of contact with the council.

The press office is staffed Monday to Friday and press officer mobile numbers are on the answerphone message for urgent out of hours calls.