Free school milk in Wales could end, as the Welsh Government consults on scrapping the scheme or replacing it with a grant-funded model. Farmers and parents have urged ministers to keep it.
Five organisations in Rhondda Cynon Taf and Merthyr Tydfil are sharing more than £1.37 million from the Welsh Government’s Ynni Cymru scheme. A Merthyr charity employing disabled and visually impaired people will use its £388,840 for solar panels, heat pumps and battery storage.
The Welsh Government has published its National Care Service Programme, built around six foundations aimed at making social care more consistent and sustainable across Wales.
Seventeen museum, archive and library projects across Wales will share more than £550,000 in Welsh Government funding, allowing their work to continue until the end of March 2027.
The Welsh Government will restart development work on a third Menai crossing and spend 18 months studying road-based options for the M4 around Newport.
Plaid Cymru's Rhun ap Iorwerth has made history as the first non-Labour politician to be elected First Minister of Wales, after a vote at the first meeting of the new-look Senedd.
Plaid Cymru has won 43 seats in the Senedd election, ending Labour's grip on power in Wales for the first time since devolution. Leader Rhun ap Iorwerth will seek to form a government and be nominated as First Minister.
Plaid Cymru has become the largest party in the Senedd with 43 seats, ending Labour's century-long dominance of Welsh politics in a record-turnout election held under a new proportional voting system.
First Minister Eluned Morgan has called on the UK Labour government to change direction after losing her seat in Ceredigion Penfro, becoming the first sitting head of government in the UK to lose their own constituency.
Eluned Morgan has become the first leader of a UK government to lose their seat while in office, as Labour's century-long run of election successes in Wales came to an end in the 2026 Senedd election.
Plaid Cymru has won 24 of 54 seats declared so far in the 2026 Senedd election, with Sir John Curtice projecting the party will finish with between 41 and 46 seats. Labour has suffered huge losses, winning just six seats so far.
YouGov's final MRP model for the 2026 Senedd election projects Plaid Cymru will win 43 seats, with Labour facing their worst Welsh result in over a century on just 12% of the vote.
