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.
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 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.
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.
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 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.
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.
Following today’s deadline for nominations, The Highland Council can confirm the details of the 5 candidates that are standing in the Ward 3 Wick and East Caithness by-election. There are 5 candidaes.
For Scotland's island communities, ferries are not a luxury as they are roads that happen to float. That is why the latest news about CalMac's fleet is so frustrating.
The Student Loans Company (SLC) is reminding students to be alert to scams as maintenance loan payments begin for the 2026/27 academic year. As students across the country prepare to start or return to university, SLC is urging them ‘stop and think before you click’ when responding to any unusual messages or communication about their student finance.
New data shows just 9.7% of transport and storage businesses expect to raise prices in September – the lowest of any major UK sector, and down sharply from 15.8% in August. Manufacturers and retailers, by contrast, are far more likely to be pushing prices up, says the delivery expert Parcelhero.
For a while, there was a little hope that the worst of the heating-oil crisis might be behind us. Perhaps oil prices would settle.
The Highlands May Be Cooler, But Our Food Bills Aren’t: Britain Faces a New Food Price Shock For years, climate change has often seemed like somebody else's problem. We watched television pictures of heatwaves in southern Europe, wildfires in California and droughts in Africa and thought that Britain, sitting in the North Atlantic with its cool, wet climate, was somehow protected.
There is one number that is beginning to dominate the argument about John Swinney's plans for reforming Scotland's public services. 20,000.
Highland Council has an ambitious plan in fact it's very ambitious. Over the next 20 years it wants to invest around £2.1 billion in schools, roads, transport, community facilities, offices, depots and other infrastructure across the Highlands.
Tuesday was an unusually important day in British politics. In London, Prime Minister Andy Burnham made his first major statement to the House of Commons since taking office, setting out the direction in which he intends to take the United Kingdom.
For a while it looked as though the great mortgage squeeze might finally be coming to an end. Interest rates had fallen from their peak.