A new bypass will be officially opened today to relieve a notorious traffic bottleneck in the midlands.

A man in his 30s has died in a collision between a tractor and an articulated truck in Co Westmeath.

A WASTE crisis is looming in Co Westmeath unless an extra half million tonnes of rubbish can be dumped at a landfill outside Athlone.

A boy, aged 13, has died after being crushed in a freak building site accident on Sunday afternoon.

Gardaí in Co Westmeath are investigating the death of a 13-year-old boy on a construction site in Mullingar yesterday afternoon.