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.
DORNOCH Sheriff Court is on a hit list of 11 courts across Scotland earmarked for closure, it has finally been confirmed.
THE TROUBLESHOOTING head teacher appointed to improve educational standards at Golspie High School and halt the haemorrhaging of pupils to Dornoch Academy,…
SCHOOL bus drivers in Sutherland are locked in a pay dispute with Highland Council.
AN elderly Australian former Olympic swimming star has paid her first visit to the Sutherland village from where her father emigrated last century.
Households along a three-mile area of Strath Halladale were flooded out, debris was washed across the road and a gravel driveway was riven to the core.
A REMOTE Sutherland community has succeeded in its campaign to persuade a supermarket giant to make home deliveries to their area.
A SUTHERLAND woman has had to give up her Olympic dream as a result of a painful knee injury.
A MAJOR row has erupted over newly installed play equipment in a Golspie play park.
Row rumbles on over salmon catch territory...
THE redundant slaughterhouse site at Dornoch is in line to be redeveloped as a supermarket, it has emerged.