Following the closure of the Westgate Road Urgent Treatment Centre two years ago, NHS chiefs want to see more services ...

The Gateshead Highway flyover upper deck has been closed to all traffic with immediate effect after a risk to safety was ...

LNER, TransPennine Express and Northern will be able to use each other's services at no extra cost during times of disruption ...

A man has been cut from his car and taken to hospital after a crash in County Durham. Emergency services were called to ...

Sir Chris Hoy is urging more men to check for their risk of prostate cancer - after nearly 300,000 people used an online tool ...

A two-year-old in heart failure has been 'hung out to dry' and told there's no space for her to get cutting edge life-saving ...

Sightings of an air weapon inside a vehicle travelling in County Durham were reported on Monday morning, but they turned out ...

The ex-England rugby star's body was formally identified on Friday, after being found near Abberwick Mill on Thursday ...

The former mining town of Stanley has been named as one of the ugliest towns in Britain, according to a recent report in ...

Vera author Ann Cleeves has opened up about how ITV bosses had originally planned a different ending for the hit drama ...

Billy Conroy, 17, of Benwell, can now be identified as the dangerous driver who killed Conner Loder after a judge lifted ...