A TOP Highland Council official has admitted that misleading planning advice was given to managers of a Golspie play park.
HIGHLAND Council is to spend £6500 to shift a large multi-activity play unit in a Golspie playpark which neighbours say was installed far too close…
Around 100 people in the county sought emergency support during the past financial year from the Highland Foodbank, run by Blythswood Trust.
THE operators of a Brora pony trekking centre have applied for retrospective planning consent – five years after setting up the business.
THE loss of the popular Falls of Shin Visitor Centre, near Lairg, which was destroyed by fire on Monday, has been described as an economic "disaster"…
A SUTHERLAND mountaineer who had a fear of heights as a child is about to climb to the top of the world.
East Sutherland and Edderton representative Graham Phillips, head of the council’s transport committee, was in talks this week with Scottish Transport…
A REMOTE Sutherland primary school which has only two pupils is to be mothballed, it has emerged.
A NORTH west Sutherland community is up in arms over an Edinburgh architect’s plans to turn a ruined, 185-year-old church into a holiday home –…
RESIDENTS of a Dornoch sheltered housing scheme are calling for an urgent meeting with their landlord after being told "out of the blue" that their support…
HOSTILITIES have broken out between two Highland councillors over claims the recently-established Caithness and Sutherland area committee is costly and…
NHS Highland managers have responded to concerns over staffing levels at Sutherland’s remodelled Lawson Memorial Hospital and adjacent Cambusavie…
Charlie Melville says he is devastated at the decision by Fiona MacDonald, manager of GREAN (Golspie Recycling Environmental Action Network).
WILD land conservation charity the John Muir Trust (JMT) has failed in its bid for a permit to cull deer out-of-season on its west Sutherland estate in…
THE group behind the controversial decision to rename Sutherland’s 112-year-old Lawson Memorial Hospital is resisting mounting pressure to do a…
The Scottish Youth Hostel Association (SYHA) has run the Category B listed castle, located near Ardgay, as a youth hostel since 1945 but was forced to…
A HISTORIC roadside building in Brora that has lain vacant and boarded-up for years, is finally in line for a new lease of life.
DEER managers in north west Sutherland are meeting later this month to discuss controversial plans by the John Muir Trust (JMT) to increase its stag cull…
WILDLAND charity the John Muir Trust (JMT) has come under fresh fire in the ongoing furore over its plan to increase the number of stags culled on its…
Around 45 beasts have traditionally been culled annually on the 9140 acres Quinag (Cuineag) Estate, bought by the trust in 2005.