The layout of streets needs to change to cut the risk of road deaths, the North's Environment Minister said today.

A teenage boy has died following a collision between a lorry and a car in Co Derry yesterday evening.

Gardaí have named the woman who was killed in a road accident in Galway on Tuesday.

A middle-aged man was killed and several others injured in a three-car pile up, police in the North said today.

Attacks on a number of buildings in a Co Derry town are being treated as sectarian, police confirmed today.

Neo-Nazis have threatened to burn down the home of an outspoken Northern Ireland Assembly member, he claimed tonight.

A County Derry teenager, who has been missing for the past ten days, has been found alive and well in County Cork this afternoon.

A SPECIAL missingpersons unit should be set up to trace the thousands of people who vanish each year, a TD has urged.

A special missing persons unit should be set up to trace the thousands of people who vanish each year, it was claimed today.

A schoolgirl who vanished from her home in Northern Ireland may have gone to the south of England, it emerged tonight.

A man was being questioned tonight by police about an attack on two Polish men in Co Derry.

Two Polish men were kicked and beaten during a suspected racist assault by a gang who forced their way into their home in Co Derry.

An engineering company in Co Derry is closing with the loss of 36 jobs.

The Protestant Orange Order has claimed that the Good Friday Agreement is incapable of delivering fair and just government and insisted there can be no cabinet places for Sinn Féin until the IRA has disappeared.

The examination of a suspicious device at a hotel in the north has been declared a hoax.

Police in Co Derry are hunting for two armed men who viciously assaulted and robbed a man.

Police in Derry are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a 20-year old man.

There have been three separate security alerts in Derry overnight following anonymous telephone warnings.

Two pipe bombs have been found in a GAA ground in Co Derry, the RUC said today.

British and Irish officials are holding new talks today in Belfast as the RUC investigate a fresh outbreak of attacks across the North.