Strabane

Police dog Cooper.

Sniffer dog at suspected drugs seizures

File photograph of a brown trout. Over 2,000 fish including brown trout, salmon and eels have been killed in a significant fish kill in the Glenmornan River.

Over 2000 fish killed in ‘significant fish’ kill in tributary of Foyle

Clockwise from top left: Shaun Harkin, Rory Farrell, Derek Hussey and Aisling Hutton.

£100 winter fuel payments yet to reach pensioners

The 2024 Derry St Patrick’s Day parade makes its way towards the city centre. Photo: George Sweeney.

Derry St Patrick's Day 2025 parade and events details confirmed

A band performing at a previous Strabane Summer Jamm. Photo: Karol McGonigle.

After-dark music trail for Strabane's Summer Jamm 2025 welcomed

Guildhall.

Arts initiative for older people in Derry & Strabane

The Canal Basin car park pictured during opening hours in the daytime. File picture by Brendan McDaid.

Strabane car park evening closure arrangement to deter 'boy racers'

The late Stephen Holmes

Funeral of murder victim Stephen Holmes to take place on Saturday

The average price of a house in Derry and Strabane declined by £8,706 from £188,042 to £179,336 between Q3 2024 and Q4 2024.

Derry/Strabane average house price declines by 4.6% (£8,706) to £179,336

Steelstown Primary School - overall winners at Friday's NI Maths Fest in the city's Guildhall.

Huge turnout for first Maths Festival in Derry’s Guildhall

Final preparations are underway to make this year’s St Patrick’s Day parade in Strabane bigger and better than ever.

Strabane’s St Patrick’s Day parade is in its final preparations

Helen Crickard and Sarah Stack from the Raise Your Voice project which is holding a series of workshops in all 11 regional council areas to support the Stormont Executive’s strategy of Ending Violence Against Women and Girls (EVAWG). Raise Your Voice is run by the Women’s Resource and Development Agency (WRDA), one of eight groups that have been funded by the Executive Office to support the first stage of the strategy focusing on prevention.

Derry urged to ‘Raise Your Voice’ against gender-based violence

Derry City & Strabane District Council offices on Strand Road.

Council strike new rate increase for 2025 / 26

Mayor Lilian Seenoi Barr will meet with the Mayor of Bethlehem to discuss the twinning. (pic: DCSDC)

Bethlehem and Derry & Strabane Mayors to hold meeting

The Council committee was told that there is a risk some debts could be written off.

Rates debt partial write-off concerns

Shane Doherty.

Derry police ‘increasingly concerned’ for missing 27-year-old
Police in Derry have said they are growing ‘increasingly concerned’ for the welfare of missing 27-year-old man last seen in the Bogside area.
Brendan McDaid

Attendees at a previous Derry Against Fuel Poverty protest rally in Guildhall Square. Photo: George Sweeney. DER2206GS – 136

Public views sought on tackling poverty

Mary-Anne McNulty.

New book gives voice to female relatives of Bloody Sunday dead

Derry City & Strabane experienced the highest rise in average prices with a 12.3 per cent increase year-on-year, according to PropertyPal’s latest quarterly report.

House prices in Derry City and Strabane rise 12.3%

Fallen trees at on Culmore Road. Photo: George Sweeney

Storm Éowyn debris concerns raised

The A5 at Garvaghy.

Vesting orders for A5 now operative with lands transferred to DfI

Have you received a card giving ick?

Play your cards right: Top ten Valentine’s Day card ‘icks’ revealed as Strabane ...

Economy Minister Conor Murphy

Derry & Strabane allocated £5.15m as part of plan to drive economic growth

A capsized shipping container in Galliagh

Storm Éowyn leaves trail of destruction across the North West

The fire service is recruiting.

On call firefighters recruitment call

The Foyle bridge has been closed.

Derry bridge closed as Storm Éowyn makes landfall in Ireland

Storm Éowyn approaching Ireland. (Met Office)

Red alert impacts flights, courts, cemeteries, parks
Loganair flights to and from City of Derry Airport have been cancelled for Friday while it has been confirmed that court buildings, leisure centres, cemeteries and parks are to close and bin collections will be suspended.
Brendan McDaid

SDLP Councillor Martin Reilly.

Concerns over lack of flooding updates

36 photographs of Mayor Lilian Seenoi-Barr’s tea dance in the Alley Theatre

Minister for Infrastructure John O’Dowd is pictured with, left to right, Chamber members Anna Doherty (CEO), Andrew Fleming (President) and Steven Lindsay (Vice-President).

O’Dowd discusses the importance of connectivity with Derry Chamber

How the signage will look at the border with Bridgend in County Donegal.

New boundary signage plans for 14 areas across Derry & Strabane

The number of arrests in Derry and Strabane under one of the main anti-terror laws more than halved last year, according to the PSNI’s annual security statistics.

Section 41 anti-terror arrests in Derry and Strabane halved last year

Derry City and Strabane District Council has advised that the ongoing icy weather conditions continues to have some impact on some of its services.

Ice continues to affect Derry and Strabane services and facilities

The Guildhall in Derry. (Photo: Brendan McDaid)

Ethical procurement policy delay

Manannán mac Lir with snow on his head and eyebrows on Thursday.

Snow continues to impact on bins, parks, cemeteries and leisure facilities

The City Cemetery will remain closed this morning (except for funeral traffic) as teams are working to grit the access routes and efforts are being made to open later today when it is deemed safe to do so.

Council update on services in Derry and Strabane impacted by weather conditions

Altnagelvin Hospital.

Altnagelvin Hospital's Emergency Department 'extremely busy' across the weekend

Mayor Lilian Seenoi-Barr with Ms. Amanda Murphy, Vice Principal of St John's and Dearbhla and Clare from Northwest Youth Services, St Mary's Youth Club in the Happy Haven classroom.

Holly's wish comes true as Mayor visits St John's

The Mayor Councillor Lilian Seenoi-Barr has hosted a reception for Lorretta Bradley, pictured with her husband James, who is retiring from Sacred Heart PS. Loretta was accompanied by family, friends and colleagues in the Mayor’s Parlour in the Guildhall. Picture Martin McKeown.

IN PICS: Mayoral receptions and events

Cases have trebled in Derry and Strabane.

Flu cases in Derry & Strabane treble

“A member of the public has handed in a set of Audi car keys [on Tuesday afternoon], which were located in Strabane Town Centre,” the Police Service of Northern Ireland said in a statement.

Audi keys mislaid on New Year’s Eve

For poorer men life expectancy increased from 71.1 years to 71.6 years but was still 5.9 years less than the LGD average (77.5 years).

2025 is the year to address scandalous health inequalities

Jean spotted the injured buzzard in bushes in Brooke Park in Boxing Day.

Injured Brooke Park buzzard rescued on Boxing Day by local wildlife lovers

Victoria Road.

Derry traffic warning due to ‘large body of standing water’

Ruairí McHugh

Councillor expresses disappointment at delays to Castlederg sport field plans

Emergency services are at the scene of a single vehicle collision on a rural road south west of Strabane.

Man (56) dies after road accident south west of Strabane

Alderman Niree McMorris, Jacqueline Gallagher and Bernie Heery pictured before the Advice North West AGM last week.

Jackie Gallagher flags ‘cost of living crisis’ as Advice NW fields 22k queries

Mayor of Derry and Strabane, SDLP Lilian Seenoi-Barr. Photo: George Sweeney.

Man who posted about Mayor branded ‘right wing racist’ – judge

Stephen Kelly, Chair of the Magee Taskforce, Mayor of Derry, Colr. Lilian Seenoi-Barr, Nicola Skelly, Vice-Chair of the Magee Taskforce, Economy Minister, Conor Murphy MLA and Professor Paul Bartholomew, Vice-Chancellor, Ulster University.

Mayor of Derry/Strabane Lilian Seenoi Barr hails Magee Taskforce report

Costa Coffee recently submitted plans to alter its established Strabane store to include a Drive-thru (pic; Hamill Architects Ltd/ Design and Access Statement)

Costa Coffee drive-thru plan for Strabane

Photo taken in Aleppo, Syria. Derry & Strabane remains significantly more receptive to refugees and asylum seekers escaping persecution with 72 per cent of survey respondents agreeing asylum seekers should be allowed to stay in the North.

Attitudes to refugees and asylum seekers in Derry ‘significantly’ more positive

The Guildhall was the setting as the Mayor Councillor Lilian Seenoi-Barr hosted a festive tea dance. Picture Martin McKeown. 11.12.24 : .

26 wonderful festive photographs from Mayor's Christmas-themed Tea Dance

Acorn Farm 2024 participant showing their vegetables and Acorn Farm 2024 Cohort at TCV, Brooke Park in Derry

Acorn Farm seeking 200 new participants in Derry & Strabane for ‘I Can Grow’

People 1st Employment & Skills

Free maths program for refugees launches in Derry and Strabane with UK Shared Pr...

Vaping (File picture by Daisy Daisy / Adobe.)

Over 20% Derry and Strabane vape shops fail underage test