Beams were circulating in the LHC by 30 March (five days in advance!), and everything is looking good for a strong final year of LHC Run II.

This year’s LHC performance workshop took place in Chamonix from 29 January to 1 February.

Fabiola Gianotti looks back at a remarkable 2016 and looks towards CERN's challenges in 2017

The LHC’s success is not alone. Linac 4 and ELENA have also reached important milestones

The target for the LHC integrated luminosity for 2016 was 25 inverse femtobarns. We reached 40.

Pushing the boundaries of current technology to extend the discovery potential of the LHC

With physics data-taking under way this week at the LHC, I’d like to take a look at what’s been happening at the rest of the CERN accelerator chain.

This week’s Council meeting was dominated by discussions about the long-term, sustainable future of CERN

The major news this week is, of course, the start of LHC Run 2

Against a backdrop of great progress in the powering tests for running at 6.5 TeV, a short cicuit is causing a delay, writes Rolf Heuer