A situation about a coronavirus rule breach during a commemoration to victims of a 1992 attack "escalated", police say.

The NI Protocol problems, which have been in sharp focus this week, were predicted by civil servants.

After enduring the worst month of the pandemic to date, there appears to be much cause for optimism.

Part-time students, non-EU students and NI students studying elsewhere in the UK are not eligible.

A website for the government's Turing scheme - which replaces the EU's study programme - goes live.

With no matches to play, school teams show their spirit as they take to pounding the roads instead.

Mid and East Antrim Borough Council say the decision was taken after a threat assessment from the police.

More than 275,000 people have now had their first dose in Northern Ireland.

It means the government must now consider the matter for debate in Parliament.

Police are focusing on access to a Stormont-owned storm drain where Noah Donohoe's body was found.

Police in Northern Ireland issue a warning about an unspecified threat relating to Monday's Panorama.

A man is being treated in hospital after what police say was a "particularly vicious attack".

Hospital staff are praised for the care they showed a Derry couple who died within six minutes of each other.

The R-number in the community is now sitting between 0.75 and 0.85, Arlene Foster says

The payments will be made to almost 40,000 students by the end of March.

The Covid death rate is high, but has been falling slowly and hospital admissions have also dropped.

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

The Arts Council had previously warned there was £16m less in the emergency fund than is needed.

A priest says he could never have imagined he would be saying Mass at his younger sister's funeral.

Mr Kammerling was brought to Northern Ireland as a refugee in 1939 and returned many times.

The weather forecast in Northern Ireland.

Unionist leader Edward Carson stood down 100 years ago, but why was he reluctant to lead Stormont?

Ben Robinson died after suffering concussion during a school rugby match. A decade on, his father Peter remembers his son who "lived life to the full".

The post-Brexit arrangements for Northern Ireland are giving some businesses a competitive advantage.

'They were left completely powerless' - Call for NI children to have mental health checks

The Continuous Positive Airway Pressure - CPAP - machine is the last line of defence before ICU.

It comes as the EU condemned "threats" against staff making Brexit-related checks at Northern Ireland's ports

Funding provisions for such a facility were outlined in the deal that restored NI devolution last year.

Derry school principal says he is "chuffed to bits" to get letter from Manchester United bosses

Police are investigating the incident in Dundooan Park in the County Londonderry town.

The vice-chancellor warns the 10,000 student target in the New Decade, New Approach deal requires changes.

A Trinity College immunologist says AstraZeneca vaccine data is too limited for it to be used on over 70s.

A man in his 60s is detained on suspicion of unlawful killing after the death of a Cork pensioner.

Ian Wright says he is "disappointed" after a teenager who sent the former England striker racist abuse was not given a criminal conviction.

We need to "calm down" after the EU reverses a plan to put checks on the Irish border, Micheál Martin says.

A threat directed at Leo Varadkar, which appeared in Belfast, is being investigated as a hate crime.