A total of 120 date palms burned when a fire swept through two plantations outside the northern city of Al-Qurayyat. Civil Defense teams rushed to the scene and put out the fire. There were no casualties reported. Maeesh Al-Ruwaili, spokesman for (...)
The Traffic Department in Al-Jouf recorded 54 violations against school buses and transport services for students and teachers. Director of Traffic in Qurayyat Col. Abdulaziz Al-Biraithi said the department organized an inspection campaign on all (...)
"Al-Birr Charity Society" in Qurayyat province has been distributing 500 Iftar meals daily to travelers through the international Haditha border port since the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan.
This was stated by the supervisor of the program (...)
The Ministry of Interior said in a statement issued today that Mohammed bin Noun bin Nasser Al-Dhufairi of Saudi nationality was executed in Qurayyat Governorate in Jouf Region today because he smuggled a large quantity of Amphetamine pills.
The (...)
The people in the province of Qurayyat woke up to the news Thursday that the murderer of the eight-year-old boy who was burnt to death had been arrested. Security forces had originally taken the accused into custody shortly after the boy's burnt (...)
Forensic experts have collected DNA samples from the decomposed body suspected to be that of a missing boy in Qurayyat.
Eight-year-old Muhammad Al-Azemi was missing since last Friday and the body of a child was found by Shuaib Bayer, Qurayyat two (...)
An Asian cook was shot dead here Wednesday for reasons still unknown. Col. Daman Al-Daran, Al-Jouf Police spokesman, told Okaz/Saudi Gazette that the police received a call from the Border Guard office and an investigation team was dispatched to the (...)
Prince Fahd Ibn Badr Ibn Abdulaziz, the Governor of Jouf Province, inaugurated here on Monday evening a number of projects and improvements worth SR 116 million at Hadithah Customs Complex.
The projects included VIP lounge and building 104 villas (...)
A 45-year-old man was arrested at Al-Hudaitha crossing point west of Al-Qurrayat Governorate Tuesday for trying to smuggle a 15-year-old Syrian girl into the Kingdom. The man claimed that the girl was his wife although a thorough check by female (...)
Positive changes in school work, lifestylesJEDDAH - Some might think that building a modern park in a poor district like Al-Qurayyat in south Jeddah is a bad idea since it would only end up being destroyed by young vandals in the area.
But the (...)
Prince Fahd bin Badr bin Abdulaziz, the Governor of Al-Jouf Province, said today that a number of developmental projects, worth more than SR 780 million, have been approved in the province in the fields of health, education, roads, electricity, (...)
Jouf police on Sunday arrested two juveniles who robbed a Bangladeshi inside his room after breaking into it with pistols and knifes. The police are looking for three other teenagers suspected of having participated in the crime which robbed the (...)
Authorities arrested three young men for assaulting and robbing an expat, police said.
The three posed as local women during their phone conversations with the expat, who eventually fell for the trap to meet the three “women.”
The man was asked to (...)
The aid ordered by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz to the victims of the severe cold has been distributed among the needy in the region of Qurayat.
Prince Fahd bin Badr bin Abdulaziz, the Governor of Jouf Region has (...)
The Security Spokesman at the Ministry of Interior stated that a training exercise was carried out today at the local Qurayat airport, northern Saudi Arabia, to simulate dealing with a hijacking of an MD-90 airplane carrying 50 passengers and 6 crew (...)