The meetings at Mid and East Antrim Council will be reinstated but the DUP will not take part.

The scam emails and texts, which often use people's names, ask people to pay extra shipping costs.

A further five Covid-19 linked deaths and 313 new cases are reported by the Department of Health in NI.

With restrictions extended for four weeks, we look at the latest numbers on the virus and vaccines.

Elderly and more vulnerable people who are most at risk from the disease are being given priority.

In February 1971 a group of divers from Londonderry discovered the wreck of a Spanish galleon.

The men, aged 58, 56 and 34, appear before Belfast Magistrates' Court on Friday.

DUP leader Arlene Foster wants social media firms to remove "false statements" on voters' register.

Martina Anderson says the bulk of the messages "contained threats of sexual violence" and misogyny.

The PSNI ask for information over a partially burnt out Volkswagen Golf recovered after the incident.

MLAs are asked to be patient as there could be "teething problems" in adapting to the system.

The victim, who is in his 40s, was attacked in an alleyway off Clandeboye Street.

Nisra says coronavirus was recorded on 2,673 death certificates in total by 12 February.

The majority of pupils in NI are learning remotely but a phased return to school begins in March.

Northern Ireland's lockdown has been extended to 1 April, but some pupils will return to school before.

Restrictions will remain, but some primary school children will return to school from Monday 8 March.

How are families spending their time with the February half-term break under way?

Council agrees to honour Hercules Mulligan, but multi-cultural groups object over slave-owning past.

The weather forecast in Northern Ireland.

The bank was founded by Belfast businessmen in 1836 and opened its first Dublin branch in 1862.

Funding for Ulster University's Conflict Archive on the Internet project means it will be retained.

BBC News NI looks at the key moments around Northern Ireland's long-debated abortion laws.

Niall Montgomery sought counselling to overcome the mental health issues he faced as a farmer.

More than 2,800 people in NI who are clinically housebound have received their first Covid jab.

People across NI speak to BBC's Spotlight programme about hardship faced during the pandemic.

The village of Bonmahon has been showered in sea foam following high winds.

Barney McGuigan's family are challenging a decision not to charge an ex-soldier with his murder.

A number of roads were closed after reports of a suspicious device in Racecourse Road.

Kathleen Thompson, a mother of six, was killed in 1971 during an Army raid in Londonderry.

More than 600 portions of holy ashes in sauce containers have been distributed in County Donegal.

Dozens of firefighters attended the fire near Articlave, County Londonderry.

The Paramilitary Crime Task Force is helping in the area following a "significant escalation".

It looks certain restrictions will continue although Micheál Martin says "nothing is set in stone".

Fewer than eight million people travelled through the airport for the first time since 1994.

The bank will continue to trade in Northern Ireland but there are concerns the move could impact jobs.

A return to face-to-face learning for some from March in still on track, a cabinet committee hears.

About 172kg of suspected cocaine has been found at Ringaskiddy Port, County Cork.

Ireland's oldest university says the project is prompted by the Black Lives Matter movement.