A water safety warning affecting 220,000 households across the North is likely to last throughout today, officials confirmed.

A motorcyclist has died following a road accident in north Belfast last night.

A security guard was injured during an armed robbery of a cash-in-transit van today.

A mother who took her own life and that of her nine-year-old daughter had given health professionals advance warning of her intentions, a report revealed today.

The SDLP could see its majorities in three Westminster constituencies cut under Boundary Commission recommendations proposed today.

A bomb found in a residential area could have exploded, police in the North said today.

Detectives are today hunting vandals who went on the rampage at the North's first inter-faith school.

Two teenagers have been charged with attempted murder after a 17-year-old was left battling for his life in hospital in Belfast.

The murder of a top loyalist paramilitary was as barbaric as anything inflicted by the notorious Shankill Butchers gang 30 years ago, a Belfast inquest heard today.

Belfast’s four electoral areas could face major expansion under revised plans for new Parliamentary constituencies in the North, it emerged today.

Four people were injured today when a car carrying eight people crashed in north Belfast.

Poison may have been used by a mother to kill her child before committing suicide, it emerged today.

A community on the outskirts of Belfast was in a state of shock after the discovery of the bodies of a woman and her daughter in their home.

Police are investigating the deaths of a woman and a child found on the outskirts of Belfast.

Detectives questioned a man today in a major new breakthrough in their investigation into the murder of a pensioner and the rape of his sister.

Polling got under way today for Northern Ireland’s crucial Assembly election, with parties insisting that voting was following traditional patterns.

Police in the North are today warning that the killer of a newborn baby, found murdered in Co Down last year, could strike again.

By Caroline O'Doherty THE button-eyed bear was as wide as the coffin was long and twice as high.

Four young children who made the horrific discovery of the body of a new-born baby girl wrapped in a plastic bag, said personal farewells at her funeral today.

A HEARTRENDING artist's impression of a newborn baby found dead in a lane five months ago was issued by police in the North yesterday as they stepped up efforts to identify her mother.

The Police Ombudsman in the North Nuala O'Loan is to oversee the disposal of DNA samples in a murder investigation.

DNA tests on around 600 women started today in a bid to trace the mother of a murdered baby whose body was found dumped in a bin bag.

Up to 600 women and girls are to be DNA tested as part of a bid by detectives to trace the mother of a newborn baby found murdered.

Police in the North have arrested five people in connection with a failed robbery in the Greater Belfast area today.

A post-mortem examination on the body of a baby girl found on the outskirts of Belfast earlier this week has established she suffered a head injury, police said tonight.

The body of a new-born baby has been found near the village of Carryduff in north Co Down.