Durham OnAir

Met Office: Skywatchers across Darlington and County Durham were treated to a rare natural display of Noctilucent cloud.

A Durham dentist has told of dozens of patients ringing up every week in a bid to be seen amid a shortage of appointments.

An NHS dentist in Durham has warned that cancer patients could see vital chemotherapy treatment for cancer delayed due to a lack of dentists

A drug abuser who robbed his own mother of £10 to feed his habit has escaped an immediate prison sentence to help him overcome his addiction.

Long-standing folk-rock band Home Service are playing a 'Live Transmission' tour across the UK in July and they are playing in Durham, Barnard Castle, Alnwick and Sunderland.

Acclaimed actors Mark Gatiss and Gina McKee are among the leading figures in the arts, broadcasting, law and science who will receive honorary degrees from Durham University this summer.  

Durham Cricket has signed up County Durham-based property and mining firm the Banks Group as its new principal partner in an agreement which also includes the naming rights to the Riverside ground.

Tanfield Railway, the world’s oldest railway, is delighted to welcome Furness 20, Britain’s oldest working standard gauge steam locomotive, as part of its Tanfield300 Great North Festival of Railways this May.

The government was forced into concessions on its welfare plan following a backlash among its own MPs.

The rise in temperature coincides with the beginning of Wimbledon and the end of the Glastonbury festival.

A 92-year-old is convicted of raping and murdering Louisa Dunne in her Bristol home in 1967.

It comes after Ofcom said it had asked the BBC why controversial remarks made by the band were broadcast live.