Politics

The move ‘an exciting opportunity for something new in the Highlands’ but is subject to funding.

A "transformative" £2.5 million cash injection will help Eden Court "expand access to the arts", its delighted boss believes.

The ‘significant burden’ of loan charges consumes 43% of the budget while 31% goes on repairs and maintenance.

Ruth Fry takes up £109k chief officer job while Paul Reid takes on fleet and facilities

The group Living Rent says ‘addressing housing inequality takes priority over expanding an already booming tourist sector’.

It comes amid misinformation claims that the law compels its introduction when it does not.

It is considered one of the worst examples in Scotland of a patient fit to go home but cannot because of a lack of care.

Councillor Michael Gregson says ‘they are letting down the staff, the pupils, the parents and the people of the Highlands’

Jamie’s Journal by Jamie Stone

Caithness farmers will this weekend send a message to the UK government to “think again” on taxation plans amid concern over the potential impact.

Caithness, Sutherland and Ross MSP Maree Todd is calling for “a renewed focus on a migration policy that works for Scotland”.

Cllr Gale, the chairman of Sutherland County Committee, made his comments at a meeting of the North Planning Applications Committee.

MSP Edward Mountain says ‘the situation in Highland schools is at breaking point’.

That works out at an average of £372.84 more a year while the council claims the impact on tenants will be ‘minimal’

Labour MSP Rhoda Grant was told £200m to be spent on the issue and there are weekly meetings looking at the crisis.

The new Inverness prison will be a place where prisoners can get the support to turn their lives around, according to a Highlands and Islands MSP.

Sutherland MSP Maree Todd, MSP will host another meeting of the Golspie Flood Defence Stakeholder Group on Monday, January 27.

The ‘deeply alarming’ new figures show more than 54 per cent of pupils missed 10-20 per cent of the school year.

The former SNP candidate for the the far north seat in last year’s general election has landed a new role with a Scottish Government agency.

The Scottish Human Rights Commission found ‘not a single human right’ is met in the region ‘under international law’.