Durham OnAir

Police blocked off a major road and carried out searches along a pathway by the river in Durham City on Tuesday evening.

Valerie Wells from Peterlee and Lindel Carre from Durham, are the first to undergo a groundbreaking tricuspid transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER) heart procedure at The James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough.

Historians have been puzzled by the wooden bridge framework at the bottom of the River Wear at Shincliffe, near Durham City, since it was discovered and documented by divers from the 'Piercebridge Project' in 1983.

Durham Police and Crime Commissioner Joy Allen has unveiled new plans to enhance volunteer skills, announcing a £15,000 grant to Durham Community Action during Volunteers Week 2025.

A steam locomotive that was once a familiar sight in a string of County Durham pit villages is set to return to the county nearly five-decades after it was ousted by diesel engines.

This Scleroderma Awareness Month, health charity Scleroderma & Raynaud's UK (SRUK) is urging the public to share its #SayScleroderma film and help raise vital funds into research of the rare, autoimmune disease.

Thousands of ‘missing’ blood donors across the North East are being urgently called on as the NHS warns that supplies of O negative are critically low.

For the first time ever, the legendary stars of the world’s longest-running soap are stepping off the famous cobbles and onto the stage for an unforgettable evening! An Audience with Coronation Street is hitting the road, and the response has been nothing short of phenomenal.