There is a quiet revolution taking place in British farming, although you might not have noticed it yet. For generations, farming was something you inherited.
The Highlands has a new young people’s champion after confirmation that Eilidh Primrose has taken up the role of Highland Youth Convener for 2026-27. Twenty-two-year-old Eilidh, who lives in Inverness, is the 18th person appointed to the position and has taken over from Leah McBain.
For decades, there was something reassuring about knowing that some of Europe's most valuable national assets were sitting safely in American vaults. Now that assumption is beginning to change.
For decades, central bankers have had to make decisions about the British economy using information that is inevitably looking backwards. Inflation figures arrive after prices have already changed.
Christmas may still seem a long way away, but what happens to the price of the Christmas dinner is already being decided in fields, orchards, olive groves and plantations thousands of miles from the Highlands. The warning signs are beginning to appear.
Why should pensioners and people dependent on social security pay the price when bond investors demand higher returns?. That is the question raised by the latest turmoil in government bond markets.
The Scottish Government has another chance to make its Deposit Return Scheme work. Whether it will take that opportunity is another matter.
America is the world's richest major economy, its currency dominates international finance and its companies lead the world in everything from technology to entertainment. Yet year after year, America buys vastly more from the rest of the world than it sells back in physical goods.
Imagine waking up tomorrow morning and discovering that the internet has disappeared. Not your broadband connection - Not your Wi-Fi but the internet itself.
Walk down some British high streets and it is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore a rather uncomfortable question. Who actually owns some of these shops? The brightly lit premises selling disposable vapes, nicotine products, imported cigarettes, sweets and a bewildering assortment of other goods can look perfectly ordinary.
Most people probably do not think about the Japanese yen very often. Unless they are planning a holiday to Japan, buying a Japanese car or watching financial news, the exchange rate between the yen and the pound can seem about as relevant to everyday life in Britain as the weather in Tokyo.
Around £4 million has been repaid to 27,000 workers. Latest list of employers who have underpaid workers revealed as Government hands enforcement powers to new dedicated body.
For years, the answer to a familiar housing problem has seemed fairly straightforward. If your house is too small, move to a bigger one.
There is a warning buried inside today's Audit Scotland report on Glasgow City Council that should concern every council in Scotland, including Highland. It is not simply that Glasgow has a £110 million financial problem.
There is a point at which a financial warning stops being something for accountants and politicians and becomes a warning for every taxpayer. I think Scotland has reached that point.
There is a strange contradiction developing in Scotland's energy policy. On one hand, Scotland wants more renewable electricity, more energy storage and a much more flexible electricity system.
Britain is trying to do something rather unusual with its Armed Forces. After spending much of the past two decades reducing the number of soldiers, sailors and airmen and women, it is now trying to build a military capable of dealing with a much more dangerous world.
For people in Caithness and across Highland, the war between the United States and Iran may seem a very long way away. But listen to the conversations taking place in shops, garages, homes and workplaces and it is clear that the distance is becoming rather less important.
Britain's Armed Forces are finally growing again. That is the good news but the less comfortable news is that the increase is tiny compared with what has been lost over the past two decades.
There is a potentially huge change coming to the way Scotland's NHS is organised, and it could have particular consequences for places such as Caithness. The Scottish Government is developing a new East and West structure for NHS Scotland.