Thousands of people are part of our local news community
A link has been emailed to you - check your inbox.
Home
A Caithness man whose dogs worried sheep has been jailed for five months.
Retired vet Frank Stephen, whose wife Moira has vascular dementia, is to walk the 147-mile John O’Groats Trail this month for Alzheimer Scotland.
A plea has been made to Castletown community council to oppose a plan to build two wind turbines and a battery storage system between Bower and Durran
Caithness is getting “just a pittance” in levelling-up funding while “millions are spent on vanity projects in Inverness”, it has been claimed.
Lib Dem candidate David Green says he is not hopeful the government will fix ‘its broken relationship with rural Scotland.’
The talented actors from Wick Players gathered together to celebrate National Drama Day.
Guaranteed prize money of £7000 will be up for grabs at the Friends of the Glass festival of darts at the Seaforth Highlanders’ Club in Wick.
A team of pupils from Halkirk Primary School have earned a place in the final of a Scotland-wide competition through their knowledge of Europe.
In less than two years Scotland has had three Prime Ministers and will get its third First Minister – without a vote.
Subscribe to our e-edition
An elderly Castletown man with major health issues says he will make himself homeless and live in a van due to the cost of heating his damp home.
Efforts have begun to secure funding for urgent repairs to a storm-damaged harbour wall at Wick amid fears that a collapse would be a "catastrophe".
Ten out of the 11 most dangerous single-carriageway sections of the A9 are north of Inverness, new figures have revealed.
A Caithness councillor is calling on an animal rescue charity to rethink its "shocking" decision to close its far north centre near Dounreay.
The Caithness women’s rugby team have secured the National Plate, coming from behind to beat Uddingston Selkies 47-27 at Murrayfield Hive.
Castletown manager Tom McKenna expects the top flight of Caithness summer football this season to be effectively two leagues within one division.
Tom Armitage and Emily MacDougall from Thurso High School were among the medals at the Scottish schools championships held in East Kilbride.
Wick Academy’s Rob McLean has taken on the role of quizmaster, giving his team-mates something to focus on during long bus journeys to away matches.
Graham MacNab hit a hat-trick as Staxigoe progressed to the last eight of the Colin Macleod Memorial Cup with a 3-0 victory over John O’Groats.
Carly Erridge helped the Krakens secure rugby’s National Plate on Saturday, then scored on the football pitch on Sunday as Caithness won at Nairn.
Yorkshire-born Cole Wilson is looking forward to his first taste of Orkney Sevens with the Greens, saying: “I’ve heard it is a top-class day out.”
Murray Travel in Inverness has been named in the top three travel agencies for the whole of Scotland in a UK awards ceremony.
Exploring a hidden route up a fine hill is a wonderful way to break up any journey south
MasterChef finalist and Inverness-native Sarah Rankin is bringing her brand-new cookbook at an exclusive event held in Dochgarroch this week.
John Davidson completes another Etape Loch Ness as the 66-mile cycle sportive celebrates a decade of welcoming riders from around the world
Making Space for Nature by Eilidh-Ann Philips
An award-winning performance from theatre dance company Curious Seed will come to the Lemon Tree in Aberdeen for one night only.
Shed Seven have announced a special 30th anniversary tour which will be coming to Aberdeen.
It opens in Highland Scotland but then spreads out to make connections with cultures across the world.
Direct from the West End, The Drifters Girl comes to Aberdeen and we speak to Carly Mercedes Dyer who plays Faye Treadwell in the hit show.
Professor David Wilson has joined forces with Marcel Theroux for a new tour – Killer Books – which is coming to Aberdeen.
Bob Harris and Colin Hall are heading to St Margaret's Braemar with their show focus on The Beatles.
The "enduring legacy" of Mary Queen of Scots will be celebrated at a new exhibition which is set to get under way in Wester Ross.
Ullapool art gallery, An Talla Solais, has launched its latest exhibition in partnership with the Highland Print Studio.
Delegates at the NAHT annual conference will debate a motion on inspection, calling for all routes to be explored to ‘safeguard leaders’ lives’.
The UK Covid-19 Inquiry had previously been told that handwritten notes of the meeting on July 2 2020 had not been located.
The Labour leader hailed his party’s win in the York and North Yorkshire mayoral election, in an area he called ‘the heart of Tory territory’.
Essex Police said that the 36-year-old suspect, from Witham, who was arrested on Wednesday has since been bailed.