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The radioactive contamination that has suspended work on a high voltage cable between Orkney and Caithness is being linked to wartime aircraft.
Dounreay’s new supremo is looking to get the site on an even keel after it has had to negotiate some choppy waters in recent years.
Work on part of the high voltage cable between Orkney and Caithness has been suspended because of the presence of radioactive contamination.
Community and business representatives are reeling from Orbex’s shock decision to halt work on the spaceport it was developing in north Sutherland.
A Thurso Highland councillor has spoken of his frustration at being repeatedly rebuffed in his bid to discover information about two care facilities.
A young Edinburgh man was among a quartet of Scottish vets who at the weekend completed an end-to-end charity cycle ride in memory of his girlfriend.
Dounreay bosses are confident the recent industrial action will not have added to the time or cost of decommissioning the site.
Government inspectors have put Dounreay into “special measures” as a result of unresolved safety concerns.
Far north MSP Maree Todd has been urged to improve the support for people suffering with mental ill health in Caithness.
Highland Council chief executive Derek Brown has declined to seek answers to questions about controversies surrounding two local care centres.
Community representatives are continuing to press for overnight respite care to be restored at Thor House in Thurso.
A multinational’s bid to develop the far north’s first commercial solar farm has elicited a mixed response from Thurso Community Council.
Anti-wind farm campaigners are celebrating after the scrapping of plans to develop a nine-turbine scheme on the north Sutherland coast.
Members of the North Planning Applications Committee will consider the application at their meeting on March 5.
Ken Nicol called it “an honour and a privilege” to be named as Scottish ClubSport’s 2023 Caithness service to sport winner.
Dounreay's operators have still to decide what to do with the remaining 140 tonne stockpile of sodium on site.
A tipping point has been reached with new onshore wind farms in the far north of mainland Scotland, it is being claimed.
Farmland to the west of Thurso is being earmarked for what would be the first commercial solar farm in the far north.
Twelve huge wind turbines would unacceptably impair the outlook between a far north stretch of the NC500 and the sea, it has been claimed.
Battle lines have been drawn up over newly tabled plans to develop a 12-turbine wind farm on the north Sutherland coast.
