A YOUNG Alness man who tried to swallow heroin to prevent police getting hold of it has been jailed for 14 months.
A NATIONAL charity is "furious" with a Scottish Government decision to give consent to a Sutherland wind farm which will be the first to breach its own…
A NEW postmistress has taken over Bonar Bridge Post Office this week.
SCOTTISH and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) have said that the first of the two large transformers to be driven to the Loch Buidhe substation site…
Dornoch is the only Scottish finalist in the Great British High Street Awards and local Councillor Jim McGillivray is calling for people to cast their…
When I first started as a Church of Scotland minister, I was 26-years-old. I looked about 18!
Sir – My wife and I have just spent a week, on holiday in Scotland, mainly driving the North Coast 500. We were so lucky, as it must have been one…
A PSYCHIATRIC report has been called for on a man who fondled a young boy whose family he got to know through attending the same church.
A YOUNG driver crashed a hired people carrier into another car in a Ross-shire town while trying to clear mist from his windscreen.
ENERGY energy Minister Paul Wheelhouse has today given consent for the construction of a 22 turbine wind farm in central Sutherland.
THERE has been some confusion over the transporting of two large transformers which are set to make the final stage of their journey to Loch Buidhe substation,…
THE devastating consequences of driving too fast on country roads is highlighted in a new campaign from The Scottish Government and Road Safety Scotland…
Police in Dingwall and Alness are trying to establish the whereabouts of Dillon Thorpe (14) of Teaninich Street, Alness.
WE have all known recently that the Lady Ross Hotel, Ardgay, was due to be demolished, even before the recent fire, but passing through Ardgay the other…
A NORTH west Sutherland sheep stock club is being forced to shell out thousands of pounds in compensation after underpaying its workers for years.
MAUREEN Sommerville Forbes, known locally as Maureen Alexander, retired English teacher at Golspie High School, died very unexpectedly on September 21…
25 YEARS AGO
A fleet of 10 marine robots has successfully completed an ambitious two-week mission off northwest Scotland, despite being hit by a succession of…
MORE visitors from the United States than ever before are taking advantage of the pound’s current weak position to tackle the region’s golf…
SUTHERLAND dementia campaigner Ann Pascoe received an Honorary Fellowship from the Vice Chancellor of Anglia Ruskin University, Professor Iain Martin,…