Detailed plans for the second phase of the controversial HS2 rail project will be made public within weeks, a Staffordshire Conservative MP has revealed. Sign up for the top news stories every day to ...

"It's HS2 in drag". Bill Murray is not one to mince his words when it comes to a new rail project joining northern England with the Midlands. Murray lives in the Staffordshire village of Whitmore ...

A new five-mile railway line in the Midlands could effectively connect Yorkshire onto HS2 and cut journey times between Sheffield and London by 30 minutes, a report has suggested. A new paper has been ...

Engineers working on HS2 have completed Curzon 2, the tallest bridge on the new high-speed railway. Curzon 2 forms part of a ...

After years of setbacks, controversy and spiralling costs, the northern leg of the long-awaited HS2 rail project has been scrapped. The Manchester leg of the high-speed project has been pushed back ...

HS2 has become the first UK construction project to use fully electric giant crawler cranes. Sign up for the top news stories every day to keep you informed with what's going on in the West Midlands.

A number of National Express bus routes will be affected next month as a result of HS2. From May 10, there will be changes to a number of Birmingham routes, while HS2 works take place on Saltley ...

West Midlands mayor Andy Street is to lead a private sector consortium to re-examine the HS2 project and explore the possibility of reviving the now-cancelled Birmingham to Manchester rail link.

For more than 15 years, HS2 has divided opinion over one simple question: Is it worth the money? Back in 2012, the cost estimate for first phase of the high speed line between Birmingham and London ...