Highland Council

North West Sutherland Schools (NWSS) includes Kinlochbervie High School and Kinlochbervie, Durness and Scourie primary schools.

Severe road conditions are again preventing many children and some staff from getting to schools in Sutherland and the wider Highlands.

A number of schools have been closed for the afternoon in addition to this morning's announcements.

Bad weather and consequent severe road conditions are playing havoc in some areas again today.

Parents of pupils unable to attend a high school dance in Wester Ross because of bad roads voice are voice frustration.

Wintry weather is impacting schools across the Highlands with hundreds of pupils impacted today.

Fourteen teams of primary six and seven pupils entered the contest.

Highland Council exploring "a number of options."

Households are being urged to recycle this Christmas.

The 23 pupils at Tongue Primary School have sent letters to the authority and to Councillor Karl Rosie, chairman of the climate change committee.

Is your child's school among them?

Up to four inches of snow has fallen on higher ground in Sutherland.

Councillor Raymond Bremner sought to reassure Highland Council’s 10,000 employees that they would do everything possible to avoid redundancies.

Highland Council has agreed to lobby for improved access to breast screening in remote parts of Highland.

Highland councillors last night offered their support to a proposed floating wind farm off the Caithness coast.

Highland Council will not object to a proposed 16-turbine wind farm near Lairg, despite objections from NatureScot and two community councils.

Councillor Ken Gowans says 'this is a very ambitious project. The 114 sites equate to 590km of road network'

Highland Council education bosses have been accused of failing to protect pupils from a teacher accused of being severely abusive.

There would be a mixture of “one, two and three bedroomed bungalows, villas and flats with associated parking and services”.

Council leader pays tribute to her “many successful outcomes and achievements”