With just two weeks to go until the opening of Manchester's legendary Christmas Markets on Friday 8 November, the design of the city's iconic and always much-anticipated Christmas mugs for 2024 can now be revealed.
Manchester is among twenty-six English public library services that have received funding to launch new projects this month to help their communities build stronger connections with nature.
A vibrant new mural has been revealed in Gorton Park to remember the history of the area and celebrate its local people.
The Black British Book Festival is set to return to Manchester Central Library next year following a successful event at Manchester Central Library in September 2023.
With less than three weeks to go now until Manchester's legendary Christmas Markets open, we've got the markets mapped for visitors and festive shoppers with a special Christmas Markets map to help everyone find their way round and point them in the right direction for food and drink, live entertainment, and those all-important toilet stops.
Manchester is to team up with Barcelona next September at the Catalan city's iconic La Mercè festival - which each year attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors into the city for a 4-day cultural festival that sets the very highest of bars for festivals everywhere, showcasing the very best of traditional Catalan culture, outdoor arts and music.
A new exhibition at Manchester Central Library is set to focus on some of the skilled craftspeople, artisan trades and construction team behind the current transformation of Manchester's Town Hall.
Ambitious plans have been set out on how Manchester can play its part in rolling out hundreds of new electric vehicle (EV) charging points in years to come.
A brand-new animation about the lived experiences of young carers has premiered to a theatre audience as a revamped strategy to ensure they receive more support will be rolled-up out across the city.
A new centre dedicated to developing and uplifting the skills of its local community has opened in Collyhurst.
Manchester City Council has named Tom Stannard as its new permanent Chief Executive to lead the delivery of the city’s strategy for the decade ahead.
Manchester Libraries has been twinned with a Ukrainian library through a partnership programme set up to bring closer links with libraries in Ukraine.
A unique project at Manchester Art Gallery that creates a welcoming space for families with small children who are seeking sanctuary in the city has been shortlisted for a prestigious award by the Museum's Association.
Details of the Council’s support package for those struggling with the cost-of-living this winter, including enhanced support for pensioners, have been announced.
Manchester's magical Christmas Parade, THE heart-warming and feel-good event of the festive season, is back again for 2024 and set to delight children, families and anyone young at heart, as it makes its way through the city's streets on Sunday 8 December.
A notorious party flat where “industrial-sized” canisters of laughing gas were used has been closed after making the lives of its neighbours miserable.
A project to enhance three pocket parks on Moston Lane is set to start soon as part of a range of investment works to improve the north Manchester high street.
Manchester has launched an initiative to become the UK’s first Carbon Literate City as part of the drive to become zero carbon by 2038.
The Generator enterprise hub has opened a site at Royal Mills in Ancoats. It is the second to launch as part of a multi-site project to support early-stage business across Greater Manchester.
This autumn improvement works are set to begin on one of Manchester’s most well-used cycle routes.
With only a month to go until the opening of Manchester's world-famous Christmas Markets on Friday 8 November, the location lowdown for this year's festive markets in Santa's favourite city reveals even more stalls, more choice and more space for visitors to tackle their Christmas shopping, or to simply soak up the sights and sounds of the season.
An update report on the Our Town Hall project which has been published outlines its progress, vision and the significant challenges which have impacted its budget and timetable.
Black History Month will be marked by recognising and correcting the untold stories of Black Mancunian history and culture.
*Manchester pharmacists already asked to give out leaflets attached to medicine bags to go out on home deliveries *Now the Council is appealing to its wider business community for similar action
Plans have been approved for the UK’s ‘first of a kind’ purpose-built majority LGBTQ+ Extra Care social rent housing scheme in Whalley Range, south Manchester.
Peeling back the layers on the Our Manchester Town Hall restoration project has been a labour of love for hundreds of craftspeople involved in its restoration.
A Manchester resident who made the lives of his neighbours miserable through repeated waste burning in his garden is now facing hefty fines handed down by the courts.
The countdown is on to Christmas in Santa's favourite city with Manchester's world-beating Christmas Markets set to return on the 8 November - Manchester's very own Festive Friday - for a six-week seasonal run until Sunday 22 December.
As young people from across Manchester prepare to return to their university studies or go off to university for the first time, council bosses are asking the city's empty-nesters to think about putting all their years' experience of bringing up children to good use and to consider fostering some of the city's most vulnerable children and young people.
A brand-new Family Hub - Manchester's fourth - officially opened its doors this week and is set to make a big difference to families in Gorton, providing support and advice to parents, carers and young people themselves through to early adulthood.