A 40-year-old man who was questioned by police in connection with the death of a prison officer in Belfast last year has been released.

A mechanic caught red handed at a major bomb making factory on a farm in the North has been handed an 11-year jail sentence.

A 51-year-old man has been arrested in connection with dissident republican activity in Derry.

A specialist police anti-terror unit in the North is conducting almost 70 investigations into dissident republican activities, the majority undercover surveillance operations, its lead detective has revealed.

Relatives of civil rights protesters shot dead by soldiers on Bloody Sunday in Derry in 1972 have said they are devastated after learning most police investigators are to be laid off.

A 38-year-old man has been charged with directing a dissident republican terrorist organisation.

Gerry Adams has been released from custody this evening and a file is to be sent to Northern Ireland's Public Prosecution Service.

Detectives investigating the IRA murder of Belfast mother-of-10 Jean McConville more than 40 years ago have made two more arrests.

The prosecution case against a high-profile republican charged with murdering 29 people in the Omagh bombing is based on phone, forensic and witness evidence, a court has heard.

A high-profile republican has been charged with murdering 29 people in the Omagh bombing, police said.

A three-month-old baby girl who died after her father was charged with causing her grievous bodily harm has been named by police in Northern Ireland.

A three month old baby girl has died in hospital hours after her father appeared in court charged with causing her grievous bodily harm.

A stone mason was being questioned tonight about the suspicious deaths of three former girlfriends in a rural town in Northern Ireland.

An explosion in Larne has been linked by police to dissident republicans.

A man has been arrested in Newry, Co. Down, in relation to dissident republican activity.

Police in the North have appealed for information over the murder of a man after making further arrests in the case.

A 38-year-old man has died after he was pulled out of a vehicle and assaulted in a lunchtime attack in Co Tyrone.

A 57-year-old man has been arrested over the murder of a police inspector almost 40 years ago in the North.

Police investigating a murder in Belfast have arrested a man in his 30s.

Police in the North are still questioning a woman in connection with the murder of a man from Ukraine.

POLICE hunting the killers of Ronan Kerr arrested a suspect after discovering a “significant” haul of arms, including rocket launcher components and detonators.

A 70-year-old man has been arrested in the North in connection with dissident republican activity.

Three men are being questioned in the North in connection with dissident republican violence.

Eight people are being questioned in the North as part of an investigation into dissident republican activity.

Four men and a 16-year-old boy are due to appear in court in Belfast charged with a number of terrorism and firearms offences.

Police investigating dissident republican activity today said they had arrested four men in the Derry area.

Police were today questioning a man arrested in Belfast city centre as part of a probe into Basque separatist activity.

Police in the North have confirmed today that members of the on-ceasefire Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) were responsible for the murder of a man shot dead in front of stunned shoppers.

Police called for a state inquiry into historical clerical child abuse in the North today and revealed a specialist detective team has been set up to investigate past crimes.

Shots were fired over the coffin of an IRA killer today in a blatant display of paramilitarism by dissident republicans.

Police in the North are still questioning three people arrested in Co Tyrone as part of an investigation into dissident republican activity.

Three men were arrested tonight by police investigating the murder of a sheep farmer in the North four years ago.

A republican fugitive arrested for questioning about the murder of British Captain Robert Nairac had been living under an assumed name, it was revealed tonight.

The search for the murderer of a teenage German backpacker in the North 20 years ago has been narrowed down to a small group of people who had detailed knowledge of the remote forest area where her body was found, police revealed today.