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Family and friends gathered in the Rogart Hall last month to say a fond farewell to Alan Macdonald, Ballinreach, who died on September 25, aged 73.

A DORNOCH-based photography student is set to stage an exhibition at the start of next month.

WHEELCHAIR users will be able to explore the west coast more thanks to a big-hearted conservation group.

THE programme for this year’s Blas Festival has been launched hot on the heels of the Royal National Mòd which ended last Saturday.

EDITH Traill (Daws) has died aged 96 in The Meadows Nursing Home.

THE village of Bettyhill is very different from the equally diminutive settlement of Little Plumstead in the flatlands of Norfolk.

THIS year’s Highland Halloween Festival in Durness, organised by local hairdresser and artist Philipp Tanzer, kicks off tonight.

THE eldest daughter of a famous climber who died on a Sutherland peak with a fellow mountaineer, is to scale the same hill that claimed them.

Yesterday, a rare bottle of single malt Scotch whisky from the closed distillery of Brora was sold for £54,450.

Volunteers travelled from as far as Golspie and Invergordon last Sunday in a community effort to help clear the Carbisdale Woods trails.

Closures of bank branches are affecting constituents says MP

An Australian visitor researching her Scottish roots, arrived at a Sutherland museum with an unexpected treasure.

Concerns among the three chambers of commerce in the Highlands over a tourist tax in the region have been echoed by an Inverness business group.

Motorists in the Highlands are facing the possibility of roadside drug tests as Scotland gets tougher on drug-driving.

Householders are being urged by Scottish Water to use the “three Cs” rule to help beat conmen who might take advantage of the clocks going back.

Brora given tie against Championship opposition in the third round of the Scottish Cup.

VisitScotland chairman Lord Thurso has praised the owners of a north based tour guide business after presenting them with a five-star grading.

COSTS of more than £6 million have been avoided thanks to a reduction in the numbers of looked-after children in placements outside the Highlands.

Farr Primary School and Nursery received a major boost to its finances at a sale of work last week.

Scourie Hotel is one of the winners in this year’s Helping It Happen Awards which shine a light on businesses that are going the extra mile.