An 88-year-old widow in Co. Down scammed out of thousands was left unable to eat or heat her home, her son has said.

The north's Police Ombudsman says 53 officers have been disciplined over a string of botched missing person inquiries.

Sinn Féin's Chairperson in the North has hit out at those who used 12th of July parades as an opportuity to incite what he calls, hatred.

Random breath tests will be carried out as part of a new operation targeting drink drivers in the North.

Almost 600 people on average have been killed every year on Ireland’s roads, north and south, since records began, road safety chiefs announced.

Over 38,000 people killed on roads on the island of Ireland will be remembered this Sunday, in a planned World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims.

Two men have died in a serious road accident in the North.

SLAIN PSNI constable Stephen Carroll was only at the scene on Monday night because police were trying to offer extra protection to local officers in light of heightened tensions caused by the shooting of two army officers two nights earlier.

POLICE in the North believe they foiled a major bomb attack yesterday when they seized almost 115kg of homemade explosives.

Nearly 250lbs of homemade explosives seized by police in the North were being prepared for an imminent bomb attack, a police chief warned today.

Police investigating the murder of a man in Co Down a year ago have issued a fresh appeal for witnesses to come forward.