EAST SUTHERLAND councillor Deirdre Mackay had an emergency meeting with Highland Council’s chief executive on Wednesday to try to amend the introduction…
GOLSPIE based charity TYKES (The Young Karers East Sutherland), which supports young carers, is celebrating the award of over £53,000 from Children in…
The Highland Council has awarded a £630,000 grant towards the costs of regenerating the Nigg Energy Park. The grant comes from the Vacant and Derelict…
ELDERLY people in the Highlands are paying thousands of pounds more to live in local authority care homes than in many other parts of Scotland.
Road users are being advised to use caution crossing the A9 Kessock Bridge at present.
Scottish Land and Estates is leading a new defence against wildfires following massive damage and destruction to so much of Scotland’s countryside inflicted…
ANY attempts to ban prayers before local authority meetings in the Highlands will be opposed, insists the councillor who will lead his colleagues in quiet…
POLICE are urging young and new drivers to fully check their driving instructor’s qualifications, after an investigation into unlicensed driving instructors…
Bonar Bridge Community Hall is today celebrating a lottery win of £74,845 thanks to the Big Lottery Fund and its Community Spaces scheme.
THE TRIAL of a Balintore youth charged with attacking a man with a bottle after a dance during Tain Gala Week, began at Tain Sheriff Court today because…
The Scottish National Party has announced its candidates to contest the Sutherland wards at the Highland Council elections in May.
A PLEDGE that no police or fire jobs will be lost when the Highlands’ emergency services are scrapped next year is being sought by the region’s local…
Postal ballot papers were issued today (Friday, 24 February) to the 10,877 voters eligible to take part in the forthcoming Crofting Commission elections…
A village hall in North Sutherland is to be given a makeover following a grant award from the Caithness and North Sutherland Fund (CNSF).
HIGHLAND Council has agreed a controversial new policy governing community benefit funds from future windfarm developments.
Not for the first time this season, the weather struck to wipe out last Sunday’s North Golf Alliance fixture at Tarbat and hold off for another week the…
GOLSPIE Sutherland hauled themselves right back into contention in the North Caledonian League title race with a 2-1 victory over Alness United at King…
LADY luck failed to shine on Brora Rangers as they conceded two bizarre first half goals despite dominating for long spells at Dudgeon Park last Saturday.
"(2D) A vote in a referendum held under subsection (2B) of this section which results in Scotland leaving the United Kingdom shall not be binding on the…
THE transfer of a north Sutherland care centre from local authority to community ownership has resulted in the loss of three full-time jobs.