A teenager who suffered a torn ear drum in an assault in Llandrindod Wells claims his friends could not see the incident because the street lights had been switched off.
Work to transform the Strand Hall in Builth Wells has stopped and one councillor has resigned following disagreements about health and safety matters.
An online petition has been set up and a campaign is being organised against the switching off of street lights across Powys.
A soldier suffering from chronic Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome headbutted a youth twice and smashed a glass on top of his head, after gatecrashing a party at his Presteigne home.
A Knighton teenager who has been on cloud nine since gaining his flying licence in July, has taken his first passenger, his grandad, on a flight.
Powys is officially the happiest place to live in Britain, according to a new survey this week. It tops the list of 273 districts, with Edinburgh apparently the most miserable place in Britain.
An experienced performance artist originally from Llandrindod Wells has been killed while rehearsing for an arts festival, after part of a display attached to a crane fell on top of her.

A Kington athlete will be flying the flag at the Beijing Paralympics, as she becomes the first British woman ever to compete in wheelchair rugby in the Games next month.
A Knighton businessman, whose shop has been broken into three times in the last 18 months, has been told he cannot put up window shutters because it is in a conservation area.
An eagle-eyed Presteigne man out-smarted criminals when he spotted a skimming device fitted to a Knighton cash dispenser and potentially saved scores of people from having money taken from their accounts.