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Nine people are killed, and three others are injured, after an explosion at a three-story apartment building in St Helier, Jersey.
2022-12-10

The United Kingdom issues a "red extreme heat warning" as temperatures are predicted to reach a record 41 C in parts of England. Wales reports a record temperature of 37.1 C near the town of Hawarden, Flintshire, and the island of Jersey reports a record temperature of 37.9 C.
2022-07-18

French President Emmanuel Macron announces that his government will postpone the imposition of "tighter controls" on British imports initially scheduled for Tuesday midnight as negotiations between France, the UK, and the European Commission over the rights of French fishermen to fish in Jersey's territorial waters continue.
2021-11-1

Jersey rejects 75 French fishing applications, once again raising tensions over disputed fishing rights off Jersey. France condemns the move as French fishermen threaten to impose either a "blockade" of ports, or of lorries travelling to the United Kingdom via the Channel tunnel, as retaliation.
2021-09-29

France sends two patrol boats, the "Athos" and "Le Themis", to Jersey in response to the British deployment of the HMS "Severn" and the HMS "Tamar" to Jersey. The dispute arose after French fishermen threatened to blockade the port of Saint Helier in protest of a new system for obtaining fishing permits.
2021-05-6

The first death from COVID-19 is confirmed in the Channel Islands, an elderly patient at a hospital in Jersey.
2020-03-25

Six people are killed in a stabbing incident on the Channel Island of Jersey
2011-08-14

The British–Irish Council meets in Guernsey, with those attending including Taoiseach Brian Cowen, Northern Ireland Secretary Owen Paterson, Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness, the First Ministers of Scotland and Wales, and the Chief Ministers of Guernsey, Jersey and the Isle of Man.
2010-06-25