North East leaders have backed plans to inject £70 million into innovative businesses across the region. Mayor Kim McGuinness and council leaders across Northumberland, Tyne and Wear and County Durham ...

A launch event for a County Durham housing development has resulted in the first properties on the site being reserved. The event, hosted by Banks Homes, the housebuilding arm of the Banks Group, ...

Police officers have vowed to make Durham City centre a safer place after new measures to crackdown on anti-social behaviour were approved.

Durham City Cricket Club have reflected on its sense of community and building for its future after winning the Durham North East Cricket League (DNECL) title for the first time in 37 years.

His mother, tennis coach Judy Murray, appeared on the 12th series of the BBC dancing show, being eliminated in week eight.

A teenager who kicked a door during efforts to storm a pub wrongly believed to contain English Defence League members has been handed a 20-month custodial term. Haris Ghaffar knew that others within a ...

A popular coffee shop in Darlington will be shut until October, as the owners have gone on their honeymoon. Echo 3, in Clarks Yard, Darlington, will be closed for more than two weeks, expected to ...

Irish national Thomas Kavanagh was about to face trial at the Old Bailey, but pleaded guilty to a string of charges at the 11th hour on Wednesday.

A hoard of coins that was unearthed by a metal detectorist who was inspired by Indiana Jones has been sold at auction for £132,865. The collection, found by George Ridgway in a recently harvested ...

At least nine people were killed and 300 were wounded, the health ministry said. Several blasts were heard at the funeral in Beirut for three Hezbollah members and a child killed by exploding pagers ...

She said people were ‘being nasty about my confidence or nasty about my weight’ which had been ‘really painful’.

Darlington's MP Lola McEvoy has launched her Online Safety Forum campaign to keep young people safe online and on social media.