2023 news archive

Sunderland City Council is advising people to take extra care as Storm Babet continues to batter the region.

Plans to form a new mayoral combined authority to unlock huge new investment and powers for the region are set to progress.

People are being advised to stay away from the coast, riverbanks and watercourses and only go out if they need to, due to Storm Babet.

The number of Real Living Wage employers continues to grow.

Sunderland's Festival of Light will not go ahead on Thursday in light of the latest Met Office weather warnings for Storm Babet.

Time to nominate and celebrate our city's young achievers.

Sunderland's Festival of Light is off to a dazzling start.

Sunderland's annual literature festival returns next week, bringing a jam packed line up of events to the city's libraries.

Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens is celebrating after scooping a top tourism award from the country's official tourist board, VisitEngland.

Visitors to Sunderland's Festival of Light can look forward to fire shows, a family friendly silent disco and walkabout street theatre when the month long event gets underway in Mowbray Park next week.