Environment

A political dispute over the ownership of a cross-border waterway has triggered the rapid spread of unauthorised oyster farms and needs to become a priority for government, MPs have heard.

In this era of frugality, residents of some Portadown streets have been astonished to find their street lights have remained ON all day .

The £340k resurfacing work on Lurgan’s Lough Rd is set to start soon with traffic delays expected particularly at train times.

Cattle at a National Trust wildlife haven in Northern Ireland have completed their unconventional annual pilgrimage – by swimming 100m across a lough to graze fresh pasture.

A footpath close to a Lurgan primary school is putting the lives of children and parents at risk, the principal has warned.

Meadowlane Shopping Centre in Magherafelt is open “as normal” today, Saturday, after torrential rainfall flooded the premises on Friday.

Northern Ireland’s taxpayers have been left to pick up a £500,000 bill for cleaning up more than 300 illegal waste sites over the past two years, it has been revealed.

A pig farming business has won High Court permission to challenge the exclusion of a planned £25m power plant from the Renewable Heat Incentive scheme.

One of NI’s greatest natural treasures is set to benefit from a multi-million pound cash injection in a bid to protect and conserve the picturesque landscape.

Members of the public are being invited to have their say on a planning proposal for a landfill site for non-hazardous waste at Aughrim Quarry, Flowbog Road, Lisburn.

A number of fish have died in a Co Tyrone river following a major pollution incident which is currently being investigated.

Ireland’s access to UK fishing waters could be suspended to apply pressure on the country to fix a “constitutional defect”, the Government’s fisheries minister said.

Kilroot power station should be kept open because of a energy reduction at a nuclear power plant in Scotland, an MLA has said.

Mid Ulster District Council’s Planning Committee has turned down a controversial plan for the construction of eight wind turbines near Cookstown.

A troubled tourist attraction on the Antrim coast that has been plagued by a series of closures is to re-open to visitors tomorrow, having run up a potential repair bill of up to £2m.

A group of landowners has launched a legal challenge to a new £200m cross-border electricity line being given the green light.

Plastic straws, drinks stirrers and cotton buds could be banned from sale in England under plans being set out by Theresa May.

I have just spent three nights on the Causeway coast, where when the children were young we spent our holidays.

Translink has declared itself “delighted” that councillors on the Derry City and Strabane local authority have approved proposals to redevelop the train station for the city.