Environment

The two public consultation sessions will be held in the Ben Loyal Hotel, Tongue, on December 5 and January 18.

SSEN announced today that reports have now been produced following the first round of consultation on its proposals.

Households will get an extra bin as part of the changes which aim to increase the amount of waste recycled while saving money for the service.

Children's environmental group the Ullapool Sea Savers have secured funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Ariana Burgess has welcomed the recommendation by Highland planning officers to turn down the Coul Links golf course application.

Groups for and against Coul Links are urging councillors to heed their arguments.

Revetments are sloping structures built on embankments to absorb and dissipate wave energy

Royal Dornoch Golf Club has two hives on land near the 9th on the Struie Course.

The public meeting is taking place at Helmsdale Community Centre on Friday, December 8, from 5.30pm.

John Davidson visits the community woodland in Evanton and takes a walk to visit the dramatic Black Rock Gorge

Making Space for Nature by Fiona MacLean

Park authority has agreed to public consultation at start of new year on three options

The quality of bathing waters in the Highlands will see areas ranked from sufficient to excellent, according to forecasts issued by SEPA.

Three sites have been identified for return to wild after absence of more than four centuries

A new national park should be created stretching up into Mid and Easter Ross, a Highland group has argued.

The community engagement event is taking place at the village’s YMCA building on Saturday, November 25.

But Inverness councillors will have to decide if they give up local play park funding in favour of the £500,000 project.

The Caledonian pinewood at Alladale is the second most northerly fragment of this now critically rare habitat.

There will be an exhibition, talks and a caving trip.

Caledonian Climate, is working with Highland Conservation to facilitate a 6–week apprenticeship peatland restoration project in Wester Ross.