Stormont Finance Minister Arlene Foster looks set to become the uncontested leader of the Democratic Unionist Party.

A successor for retiring Democratic Unionist leader Peter Robinson will be in place before Christmas.

The North is on safe ground and is a place transformed, Peter Robinson has told his party conference.

The North's First Minister Peter Robinson has confirmed he is standing down from the position, and as DUP leader.

As Peter Robinson prepares to step down as Northern Ireland’s first minister and leader of his Democratic Unionist Party, the race is on to succeed him.

Martin McGuinness has paid tribute to the North’s departing First Minister Peter Robinson, saying he now counts his long-time political foe as a “friend”.

Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams was among the first to wish Peter Robinson well in retirement after the North’s First Minister and DUP leader announced he would be stepping down.

The North's First Minister Peter Robinson is to step down within weeks.

The DUP leader says he will lead his ministers back into the Northern government, despite a finding that the IRA's army council still exists.

Democratic Unionist leader Peter Robinson has rejected as “outrageous and groundless” an accusation he was to receive a payment linked to the North's largest ever property sale.

Allegations that the North's First Minister was to benefit from a massive property deal have been made to a Stormont inquiry.

Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader has been discharged from hospital.

The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Peter Robinson has spent the night in hospital after suffering an adverse reaction to medication.

Mick Wallace TD accused of defaming the North's First Minister will not be deterred because of the threat of legal action, his lawyer has said.

First Minister Peter Robinson has agreed to enter next Monday's talks aimed at resolving the the North's political crisis.

Martin McGuinness has expressed concern that “state agents” intent on creating problems for Sinn Féin were involved in the two murders that have rocked powersharing at Stormont.

Sinn Féin's Gerry Adams has said the North's former First Minister Peter Robinson is “making a show of himself”.

The Democratic Unionists will resign from the Stormont Executive, collapsing power-sharing in the North, unless the Assembly is suspended, First Minister and party leader Peter Robinson said.

Northern Ireland’s First Minister is to meet the British Prime Minister tomorrow to discuss Stormont’s deepening political crisis.

Northern Ireland First Minister and DUP leader, Peter Robinson, has criticised the decision by the Ulster Unionist Party to leave the Northern Ireland Executive.

Sinn Féin should be expelled from the North's power-sharing Executive if it is proven the Provisional IRA was behind the murder of one of its former members in Belfast, Stormont’s First Minister has said.

The North's First Minister Peter Robinson has been discharged from hospital.

Northern Ireland’s First Minister Peter Robinson is recovering in hospital after suffering a suspected heart attack.

The North’s First Minister could be facing a night in hospital after suffering a suspected heart attack.

The North's First Minister Peter Robinson has been admitted to hospital after suffering a suspected heart attack.

The North's First Minister Peter Robinson has said Jim Wells should not be subjected to a “lynch mob” by critics.

The Stormont House Agreement will fall if Sinn Féin pull out of a deal on welfare reform, the North’s First Minister has said.

North first minister Peter Robinson has lifted his threat to resign over thecontroversy about on-the-run republicans after accepting the terms of a judicial review into the issue announced by British prime minister David Cameron.

A judge will be appointed to investigate the operation of a UK Government scheme to deal with on-the-run republicans, David Cameron has announced.

Progress has been made towards a political deal on the three main outstanding peace process disputes in the North but big issues remain unresolved, Stormont’s First Minister has said.

Former Democratic Unionist leader Ian Paisley has levelled a series of explosive allegations against current senior figures in the party, claiming they plotted his downfall.

The North's First Minister Peter Robinson has accused Martin McGuinness of a "visceral hatred of the Orange Institution" and said he is in "political denial".