'Watching American TV this week made me realise how big Greater Manchester is'

A dad who was shot dead in broad daylight has become the latest person to lose their life after another weekend of bloodshed on the streets of Greater Manchester.

A whopping £1 million prize is up for grabs in Greater Manchester with National Lottery players being urged to come forward and double-check their tickets.

McDonald’s is looking to fill a range of job vacancies in Greater Manchester, and they all come with an amazing benefit. The fast-food giant has opportunities available in front of house and behind the scenes across the region, including in Salford, Trafford and Stretford.

Andy Burnham has been hit with a bill of almost £2,000 after he was caught doing 78mph on a section of motorway where the limit had been reduced to 40.

Concern is growing for a 17-year-old girl who is missing from her village home. Charlie Thomas has disappeared from Newhall, Cheshire.

Allowing bicycles on board Metrolink trams would 'cause major problems', a committee of councillors was told as transport bosses revealed plans to use a quiet siding as an off-network testing site for a 'soft trial'.

In a room filled with 37 police inspectors, members of the press, and the Mayor of Greater Manchester, promise was in the air.

Rail passengers are hitting out at the government's move to extend the contract of troubled train operator Avanti - despite the Secretary of State admitting there is 'still more work to be done to bring [Avanti] services up to the standards we expect'.

Greater Manchester Police is to lose more than fifty percent of its PCSOs to finance the recruitment of more neighbourhood police officers. PCSO roles will be lost by vacancies not being filled.

Bernard Sumner, Stephen Morris, and Gillian Gilbert of New Order spoke today (March 15) at this year’s SXSW and discussed becoming musicians, the evolution of their sound and growing up in Manchester.The trio were keynote speakers at the annual tech and marketing festival, in conversation with Will Hodgkinson, rock and pop critic of The Times. Andy Burnham, Mayor of Manchester, introduced the keynote, calling New Order “the ultimate Manchester band” before adding that it was “a big statement”.The band kicked off their chat by discussing how they weren’t necessarily “anti-musicians” but they were “anti-success”, with Sumner pointing to growing up working class before “punk came along” giving him the chance to express himself, without being a virtuoso. “I didn’t want to be famous, I didn’t care about that at all.

Andy Burnham will have full control over local funding, the government has announced. The Greater Manchester mayor would be given a single budget rather than having to bid for separate pots of cash, the Chancellor said.

A pilot scheme allowing bicycles on board Metrolink trams across Greater Manchester is now being drawn up, it's been revealed. The city region's new active travel commissioner, former Paralympian Dame Sarah Storey, has revealed she's working with transport bosses and the mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, to devise a trial.

An enormous 90-tonne bridge was successfully lifted into place in Stockport over the weekend — connecting the town’s train station to its soon-to-be-built transport interchange.

The starting gun was fired last February. For the first time since Boris Johnson led the Conservatives to a decisive victory at the polls, the government set out how it plans to deliver its 'defining mission' – Levelling Up the United Kingdom.

It's 8.20am on a Thursday morning. Students are walking, cars are queueing and parents are panicking as the lights turn green at the junction from 'hell'.

Councils have been setting their annual budgets over the last few weeks. This includes the difficult decision of whether to raise council tax and by how much.

Many of us will have woken up to see our gardens submerged in snow, and found ourselves battling blizzards on the journey to work or school in recent days.

Every Saturday morning, thousands of people lace up their running shoes and set out on parkrun routes across the country.

Forecasters have issued another warning for icy weather in Greater Manchester this weekend. But with a bit of luck we might have seen the back of the snow... for now.

The weather will turn wintry in Greater Manchester tomorrow (Thursday, March 9), with snow forecast to fall across some boroughs.