Two former American college classmates, who were team mates in North District golf teams, are now professional golfers but living different life styles. Inverness’s…
Isabella Wright, Colinsay, Argyle Street, Dornoch, proves you can still be swept off your feet at the age of 80. She celebrated her milestone birthday…
Jessie Gunn was born at Newlands, Bettyhill, on 11 September 1928, the second youngest of the 12 children, six girls and six boys, of John Brown Mackay…
THE community of Coldbackie lost a real character when the last remaining native crofter passed away on 19th December, 2011, at the grand old age of 90…
"What’s Alex Salmond really like?" If I had a penny for every time I have been asked this question... As the independence issue climbed to the top…
TRAINS will start transporting spent nuclear material from Dounreay through the Highlands in the summer - but the exact times and dates will not be disclosed…
Road users are being advised to take care in the Highlands this morning due to strong winds.
A LOCAL woman fled for her life as fire swept through part of her croft house last night. Shelly Louise Hart McCallum (28) was in the shower when the…
A MAN pleaded guilty today to using counterfeit £20 notes at various stores in Ross-shire and Sutherland in June last year.
THREE Brora men are to stand trial at Wick Sheriff Court in March following incidents at a Thurso nightclub on Sunday.
A man was rescued by coastguards this morning after falling and injuring his leg on a remote North Sutherland beach. The man, who has not been identified,…
Changes to public entertainment licences, which come into force on April 1st, will bring more events under the umbrella of requiring a licence, where…
It was a full house once again at the Brora Scout and Guide Hall at the weekend for the 14th Annual Burns Supper.
THE DEVELOPER behind a controversial Golspie office-to-flat conversion which was rejected last year by North councillors but has now been given the go-ahead…
With the same three curlers – Hamish Fraser, Colin Wilson and Joan Fraser – who won last year, Rogart skip Nigel Murray is through for a second year to…
THE threat to hundreds of classroom assistant jobs in primary schools across the Highlands has been lifted, it has emerged.
The opening of the salmon fishing season on the Helmsdale yesterday was attended by over 90 anglers, all trying for the first spring salmon from the river.…
Members of Highland Council’s housing and social work committee, which meets in Inverness today, will be asked to approve a proposal to raise council…
The drowning of plumber David Bowes at the Kyle of Tongue in February 2010 - after his Toyota pick-up left the A838 causeway and ploughed through the…
Ullapool Book Festival this week released the names of the writers who will be guests at the eighth festival that will be held from Friday 11 May to Sunday…