Crime

Police Scotland’s first national campaign of the year is about to commence with the focus on speed limits.

NHS Highland has advised people to beware after learning that fraudsters have been targetting patients who use the region's Telecare service.

The Shandwick Inn near Kildary was targeted sometime between 10pm on Sunday and 10am on Monday.

A new police report shows that the Highlands recorded the highest number of drug driving offences across Scotland in December.

A Highland police officer has been arrested and charged in connection with sexual offences.

Accused said: "I just lost my mind. I just want to pay them back."

But he only has £10,040.39 available to hand over to the authorities at this point in time.

Chief has helped officers remove £15,000 worth of cannabis from region's streets

12 snow poles have been cut off to near ground level on the A838.

The man was fined and banned from driving for one year.

'What we are seeing playing out is...an internal power struggle between drug dealers, which is showing itself in a number of violent episodes.'

Police have urged Highland residents to be on the alert after the force received reports from locals who had received scam callers.

Lairg's mothballed police station, which has been empty for several years, is to be permanently axed and sold off, the force has announced.

A festive drink and drug driving clampdown by Highland police has led to 30 arrests in the first fortnight of December.

Police are hunting four "darkly-clothed" males who attacked a man in Tain.

The Highlands is one of Scotland's worst hot-spots for drink-driving, new data has revealed as police gear up for their annual festive crackdown.

Police are urging members of the public to be vigilant as a group of scammers have been reported to be operating in Ross-shire and Sutherland.

Police remain at the scene of the brutal murder of Inverness dad Ross MacGillivray last weekend.

He has been named as Ross MacGillivray from Inverness.

Shoplifting and staff abuse will be among the areas looked at.