Bullets have been sent to the homes of two political representatives in the North.

Rival politicians have been urged to step back from tit-for-tat rows after a Sinn Fein minister was injured during a contentious parade in Northern Ireland.

Farmers in the North are facing significant losses of livestock, many of which are buried under heavy snow, as the cold snap continues.

A British Royal Air Force Chinook helicopter has started dropping feed to thousands of farm animals stranded in huge snow drifts in the North as the agriculture crisis triggered by blizzards deepened.

The North's struggling economy was rocked today with the loss of 760 jobs at one of its main manufacturing firms.

Up to 760 jobs are to be axed by a major engineering company in the North, it was announced today.

Twenty-two police officers have been injured during rioting in the North, it has emerged.

Twenty-two police officers have been injured during rioting in the North overnight.

At least seven police officers have been injured after coming under attack by crowds of rioters in west Belfast last night.

Police are preparing to mount a major security operation for tomorrow’s big Twelfth of July parades in the North amid fears of new trouble on the streets in the aftermath of weekend disturbances in loyalist areas of east Antrim.

Sean Neeson is standing down from the Northern Assembly at the next election, it emerged today.

The good times of increased public spending in the North are over, the Finance Minister said today.

Talks on devolving policing and justice powers to the Northern Ireland Assembly could be in danger, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) warned today.

The Democratic Unionist Party’s (DUP) deputy leader Nigel Dodds is to lose his job in the North's government today as part of a major ministerial reshuffle.

The campaign by environmentalists to have a North minister sacked for banning a government climate change advertising campaign was gathering pace today.

Northern Ireland’s Environment Minister tonight branded the law which saw him fined for riding his motorbike without tax or MOT “absurd”.

Care standards for the elderly could be endangered if pay and conditions for workers are not improved, a Stormont watchdog in the North warned today.

DAVID HOBBS will celebrate his 100th Irish cap this weekend, and become the youngest player in Irish Hockey history to do so.

Key political players are to analyse the impact of the General Election in a major conference opening today in Dublin.

Northern Ireland could be sitting on a goldmine, geologists revealed today.

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

Sinn Féin should end attacks on Protestant villages before they launch their charter of unionist engagement next week, the DUP said today.

DUP leader Ian Paisley and Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness today became the North’s First Minister and Deputy First Minister after taking the pledge of office.

The DUP can take the credit for forcing Sinn Féin to move towards supporting the police, the party’s East Antrim MP Sammy Wilson insisted tonight.

More than 40,000 voters will be added to the electoral register in the North in time to allow them to vote in the Assembly election, it was announced today.

The head of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission should be removed from office, Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Ian Paisley claimed today.

Police were under pressure today to catch gangs of armed men robbing pensioners in the North.

Average house prices in the North have rocketed past £180,000 (€267,200), with values rising by a third in the last year, it was revealed today.

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

The SDLP and DUP have clashed over the legacy and role of Ian Paisley, less than sixty hours before they meet across the chamber in the recalled Stormont assembly.

A convicted murderer who was on-the-run after being given compassionate leave was today recaptured by police.

Sinn Féin and the IRA were under renewed pressure tonight following threats to burn down the homes of the family of murdered Belfast father-of-two Robert McCartney.

David Trimble became the biggest name casualty of the British general election tonight as his Ulster Unionist Party slumped.

Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams was today comfortably elected in the British parliamentary elections in the North.

Belfast should host the Olympic Games in 2016, a political party in Northern Ireland claimed today.

The British general election campaign in Northern Ireland will change up a gear today as parties begin to nominate candidates for the province’s 18 Westminster constituencies.

Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley has claimed that all of the Ulster Unionist Party’s Westminster seats are vulnerable in the upcoming British general election.

The North’s political parties are due to begin campaigning later today for the upcoming British general election.

A magistrate hit out today after a former Northern Ireland Assembly Member facing a sex charge forced his case to be delayed.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair will decide on Friday whether to get directly re-involved with efforts to restore devolution to Northern Ireland, it was revealed today.

Plans to close down 21 post office branches across Northern Ireland will “rip the heart out of urban and rural communities,” it was claimed today.

Northern Ireland faces considerable challenges in the years ahead from European Union enlargement, the Democratic Unionist’s new European Parliament candidate claimed today.

The Ulster Unionist Party and the Democratic Unionist Party have begun a war of words over the level of alleged defections from one side to the other.