A minister appointed to lead two Church of Scotland congregations in Sutherland will find echoes of her old job in her new calling.
HMS Queen Elizabeth, the first of the Royal Navy's new aircraft carriers, is to take part in Europe's biggest war games off the Scottish coast.
A Sutherland Scottish Women's Institute has closed after 102 years. Ardgay and Culrain SWI was left with just five members.
A basking shark tagged off County Clare in Ireland has been re-sighted months later off the west coast of Scotland looking for a mate.
An extraordinary chance meeting on a Sutherland mountain a fortnight ago has brought comfort to Assynt Mountain Rescue Team leader Sue Agnew.
A former Royal Navy diver has discovered an almost completely intact 5500-year-old cup, hidden in the mud of a loch in the Outer Hebrides.
He ran the remotest bookshop on mainland Britain for 15 years.
Anders Holch Povlsen and his wife Anne are celebrating the birth of twin girls a year after losing three children in the Sri Lankan bomb attacks.
Scotland's leading young environmentalist has objected to Britain's first vertical launch spaceport planned for the Moine Peninsula near Tongue.
Mountain rescuers cooked sausages and bacon on a disposable barbecue to try and attract a lost, frightened dog.
Two ultra-marathon runners were airlifted to hospital early yesterday after a "challenging" overnight rescue in the north west Highlands.
A DEER has suffered an “agonising death” after being snared by a discarded fishing net on a Sutherland beach.
Caithness and Sutherland SNP MSP Gail Ross is quitting Holyrood because she wants to spend more time with her son.
Despite growing opposition, crofters who own the land wanted for the spaceport at Melness have strongly backed the controversial scheme.
The number of objections to plans for Britain's first vertical space launch spaceport at Melness reached 65 today with nine in favour.
A scientist has warned of "severe" plastic pollution from recent storms that is threatening some of the north's best beaches and seas.
Britain's first vertical launch spaceport near Tongue will create far fewer jobs than first announced, it has been revealed.
North Sutherland landowner Anders Holch Povlsen has given £4000 to Assynt Mountain Rescue Team.
The daughter of a famous climber who died on a Sutherland peak with a fellow legendary mountaineer, has scaled the same mountain that claimed them.
It will be the most poignant of ascents.