Engineers are targeting 2,600 homes still without any water in the North.

More than 60,000 homes face a night without water in the North as engineers temporarily cut off supplies to allow depleted reservoirs to refill.

Around 5,200 homes in the North remained without water as engineers continued to repair the leaks that crippled the region’s water system.

Engineers are continuing the mammoth task of repairing the leaks that crippled the North’s water system.

The company in charge of the North's faltering water supply will meet the minister responsible today with mounting anger at the way it has handled the crisis.

Heads should roll at the failed water company which has left thousands of people in the North cut off, the deputy First Minister said tonight.

The North's escalating drinking water crisis is in danger of developing into a major health emergency, it was claimed today.

Sinn Féin Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness and the North's Regional Development Minister will visit flood-hit homes in the North later today.

A gritting lorry driver suffered cuts to the face when his window was smashed by stone-throwers in Co Derry.

Car traffic around parts of Belfast’s City Hall will drop to two lanes to encourage motorists to bypass the city centre, it was revealed today.

A senior civil servant suspended over a scandal linked to the North's government-owned water company was not made a scapegoat, his minister insisted today.

The North’s main political parties are at loggerheads tonight over a government scandal that has forced the suspension of a top civil servant.

The North's political leaders Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness clashed in public today as the split at the heart of the power-sharing government was dramatically exposed.

The Ulster GAA released 125 balloons today to mark its foundation.

Householders in the North may not pay water bills for the next three years under legislation introduced in the Northern Assembly today.

Sinn Féin launched a global campaign to reunify Ireland today with the claim that many unionists are open to their plans.

A new policy by the North's Executive to protect the way of life on Rathlin Island while promoting its viability and sustainability was unveiled today.

Nearly 50,000 schoolchildren across the North were today swapping the school run for the school walk.

The project engineer behind the Luas light rail network in Dublin is to head the team that will bring a Rapid Transit System to Belfast, it was announced today.

A Sinn Féin minister in the North has been warned of an attempt to murder him by loyalist paramilitaries.

Tensions escalated further at Stormont today as Sinn Féin pressed First Minister Peter Robinson to agree to a major meeting of ministers from the north and south.

The go-ahead was given today for the building of a new dual carriageway from Derry to the City of Derry Airport, at a cost of nearly £50m (€63.4m).

Emergency services battling to contain flooding across the North are today braced for more downpours.

The chief executive of Northern Ireland Water is leaving her post at the end of the month, it was announced today.

It has been a long apprenticeship. However today Peter Robinson finally got the chance to take over as leader of the North’s most successful political party, the Democratic Unionists, after 28 years of being the Rev Ian Paisley’s understudy.

DUP Assembly members will today decide who should succeed the Reverend Ian Paisley as party leader.

A Sinn Féin minister in the Stormont Executive was tonight facing a probe into whether he breached his ministerial code by consulting with the IRA over the murder of a Northern Ireland man.

The gap between health spending in the North and England is set to widen if current budget proposals at Stormont stand, a power-sharing minister warned today.

Households in the North are going to have to pay water charges - but they have been delayed for another year, it was announced today.

The final stretch of dual carriageway linking Dublin to the border with the North is due to open to traffic this morning.

The journey time between Dublin and Belfast will be cut to only two hours with tomorrow’s opening of the first motorway between the cities.

The North's new power-sharing Cabinet will have its first meeting since the return of devolution today.

Union representatives applied the first pressure to the North’s new devolved administration by demanding a halt to plans to cut 500 water industry jobs.

Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness are due to meet British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown in Edinburgh today to push the case for a generous "peace dividend" in the North.

Hopes were rising today that peaceful Orange Order parades in the North could indicate a change of mindsets, leading to durable peace and tolerance.

The British government was today urged by a Northern Ireland MP to spend more on the UK’s rail network as part of measures to tackle global warming.

The Democratic Unionists were accused today of finding excuses for failing to engage with Sinn Féin on a new devolved government for Northern Ireland.

The Democratic Unionists will not be bought off into going into a devolved government simply on the back of gaining peerages and extra seats on the North’s Policing Board, a senior member warned today.

Up to 600 jobs may be lost following reforms of the Water Service in Northern Ireland.

IAN PAISLEY’S Democratic Unionist Party withdrew its ministers from the Northern Assembly yesterday saying the Good Friday Agreement is history.

The Democratic Unionist Party today confirmed it had pulled its ministers out of the Northern Ireland power-sharing Executive.

Northern Ireland's Regional Development Minister Peter Robinson is expected to call for significant increases in funding required to implement his 10 year transport plan.

Rail investigators tonight launched an inquiry into a train derailment at a seaside area in Northern Ireland in which several people were injured.

A €130m contract to buy 23 new trains which will modernise the Northern Ireland rail network was signed today by Translink.