Two men are being questioned in connection with a car crash, which killed a “bubbly and beautiful” policewoman in her patrol car.

Police were attacked by missile-throwing loyalists during fresh violence in Northern Ireland tonight.

Phoenix Energy has agreed to sell its gas supply business to rival power firm Airtricity.

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.

Three men are in PSNI custody in Belfast following the seizure of £1m worth of drugs.

The Public Prosecution Service is to be asked if a man should be charged over a terrorist murder committed in Northern Ireland over 20 years ago.

Police in the North are investigating another attack on a Catholic primary school in north Belfast overnight.

Police in the North are investigating the theft of an undisclosed sum of money during a so-called tiger raid in Belfast this morning.

The public battle over runway extension plans at George Best Belfast City Airport heated up today when the airport claimed the vast majority of people in the city were behind them.

Ireland's biggest bookmaker Paddy Power has gambled on securing a slice of the lucrative betting market in the north with a £19m (€24m) takeover of McGranaghan Racing.

A couple and their 16-month-old grandchild have been taken hostage by armed robbers trying to extort money from them.

Bank managers in the North were urged today to check elderly customers’ accounts amid fears their savings have been plundered by extortionists.

Two men have been charged after thousands of pounds worth of drugs were uncovered in the North, police said today.

A man was arrested today by detectives investigating incendiary bomb attacks by dissident republicans in the North.

Organised crime gangs are increasingly targeting Northern Ireland’s small businesses for extortion, MPs were told today.

Airlines will be urged to lay on extra flights to Belfast amid intense demand to get to George Best’s funeral, it emerged tonight.

FORMER paramilitary boss Johnny “Mad Dog” Adair was heavily investigated over the assassination of loyalist informer William Stobie, detectives said yesterday.

Former paramilitary boss Johnny “Mad Dog” Adair was heavily investigated over the assassination of loyalist informer William Stobie, detectives said today.

Police have seized £1.75m (€2.55m) worth of drugs in a major operation across Greater Belfast, they revealed today.

Three young men might not have died in a horrific traffic collision if there had been better road warning signs, a Belfast inquest heard today.

Detectives were today probing possible paramilitary links to the gang behind the £22m (€31.4m) Northern Bank robbery in Belfast.

THE gang behind the £22 million (€32m) Northern Bank heist may be forced to dump more than half the cash, it emerged last night.

Striking civil servants were preparing to step up industrial action in the North today.

Car crime in Greater Belfast has been slashed by 50% in the past three years.

A 34-year-old Catholic man and his three children have escaped injury in a gun attack on their home in a mainly Protestant estate in Co Down this morning.

A man who died of an overdose of anti-depressant tablets probably did not mean to take his own life, his doctor told a Belfast inquest yesterday.

Police in the North are investigating a death threat against a Sinn Féin councillor who discovered a bullet in a Valentine's Day card in the post this morning.

Firefighters in Northern Ireland today held out the possibility of breaking their strike if a full-scale emergency occurs during the 48-hour stoppage.

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

The Chinese are keen to do business with Northern Ireland companies, representatives of a Belfast-based civil engineering firm claimed in Beijing today.

The death of a Protestant teenager during rioting in north Belfast was a senseless waste of life, Northern Ireland First Minister David Trimble said tonight.

Two men have been arrested by police investigating the murder of solicitor Rosemary Nelson, police said.

Two men have been arrested by police investigating the murder of solicitor Rosemary Nelson, police said tonight.

A detective is to head a major inquiry into a new outbreak of attempted child abductions throughout Northern Ireland, RUC revealed today.

Loyalist pipe bombers have been accused of undermining the case for IRA disarmament by an Ulster Unionist minister in the Northern Executive.