The Stormont executive has yet to make a decision on whether GSCE set for next week will go ahead.

Twenty patients are being treated in the Nightingale intensive care unit and four beds are available.

BBC News NI's Jayne McCormack answers readers' questions about how the new restrictions will affect you.

Work is under way to try to preserve a curiously-slanted 200-year-old holm oak in County Down.

More than 46,000 first doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine are administered.

The Newcastle Road in Ballynahinch remains closed following the incident.

Craigavon Area Hospital is one of 200 UK centres taking part in a major coronavirus research programme.

There is a long-running dispute over sovereignty of the uninhabited North Atlantic island.

Sainsbury's has not taken over the convenience retailer - it's all about the new Irish Sea border.

NI's political calendar is set to be jam-packed again this year - here's what to expect.

Economy Minister Diane Dodds writes to Cabinet Office Secretary Michael Gove over the issue.

As businesses return to work after Christmas, the amount of freight moving through NI will increase.

From citizens' rights to trade, Northern Ireland will have a different Brexit to the rest of the UK.

The executive agrees new changes to lockdown rules in response to a spike in Covid-19 cases.

The latest guidance on the new restrictions that have been imposed across the UK.

The Department of Health's aim is for all people older than 80 to receive a jab by the end of January.

People with the chronic condition say some post-Covid patients are reporting "identical" symptoms.

The unusual phenomenon looks like candy floss on the trees - but touch it and it melts away.

Neil Watt and Kris Reid spent most of 2020 in Castle Ward with no visitors - so set to restoring it.

The weather forecast in Northern Ireland.

Ronan McAuley helped his father on their farm in Glendun, County Antrim, until his death in 2016.

The Veg Bank Project in County Fermanagh grows vegetables to help supply local food banks.

Protestant and Catholic leaders say NI's centenary creates "opportunities for greater understanding".

Arlene Foster says she "huge crowds" large gatherings over the festive period.

Eileen Lynch, 94, was among the first people in NI to be given the the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.

Northern Ireland's first minister. spoke to the BBC's Andrew Marr about border control and Brexit.

A 79-year-old woman became the first person in the Republic of Ireland to receive a Covid-19 vaccine.

A large oil tanker has run aground at the mouth of Lough Foyle, Belfast Coastguard has confirmed.

Twenty people died during violent clashes in the city in a single week.

The Tun Liffey tanker is now back in Foyle Port after running aground on a sand bank on Tuesday.

A motion calling for Derry and Strabane council to close City of Derry airport fails to win support.

Police say the alerts caused disruption to a lot of families who had to leave their homes.

Travellers in to the Republic from Britain will be required to produce a negative Covid test.

Gardaí (Irish police) say the 17-year-old's body was recovered in the Bull Head area on Sunday.

The frontman, who found success with songs such as Summer in Dublin, "passed away suddenly" aged 65.

Ireland moves to Level Five with household visits banned, non-essential retail shut and a travel limit.

George Nkencho was shot by gardaí in Dublin after reports of a man armed with a knife at a shop.