EMERGENCY services were called after a bottle containing an unknown liquid, thought to be highly toxic, was knocked over in a shed at a house in Tain…
FORMER Golspie junior and now a Brora Golf Club member, Dean O’Brien led from start to finish to win for the first time Tain’s premier 36-hole open tournament…
HERE’S a timely photo for this week, taken at Durness Highland Gathering shortly before the Second World War, writes Willie Morrison.
How one thing led to another with my love of all things explosive...
AFTER winning the Royal Dornoch Ladies’ Club Championship seven times since she first won the trophy at 17, Cara Gruber was defeated last Saturday by…
A local newspaper should champion its home stars
A DUTCH couple have been ordered to rethink their controversial plan to turn the former Highland Council office buildings in Golspie’s Main Street into…
Thanks to all who helped...
AN E.MAIL leaked to the Northern Times this week reveals that the company reviewing school provision is investigating the idea of a single campus, based…
THE fifth and final year of excavation has just started at the site of the oldest salt works on Brora’s Back Shore, dating back to 1598.
Veteran Sutherland councillor Ian Ross’s announcement that he is to stand down next year has been greeted with surprise and disappointment by fellow councillors.…
A rail safety organisation is calling for action to improve the safety of four out of six open level crossings in Sutherland.
East Sutherland and Edderton ward councillor Ian Ross has announced that he will not be standing in next year’s local authority elections. Mr Ross, who…
Durness Highland Games, held at the village’s Shore Park last weekend, was a record breaking one. For the first time in five years a record was smashed…
A Dutch couple who were planning to convert a former office building on Golspie's Main Street into seven flats have been firmly ordered to go back to…
Pilots of light aircraft from across Scotland headed to Dornoch at the weekend to take part in the annual "fly-in" held by the Highland branch of the…
The remote community of Assynt, in North West Sutherland, is embarking on an ambitious project in the hope of revealing the secrets of people who lived…
A brother and sister from Contin took the top honours yesterday (Sunday) at Golspie's car banger derby - one of the most popular Gala Week events. Martin…
When Leigh Sedgley first visited Assynt in the north west corner of Scotland she vowed that one day she would live there. Thirty years later she achieved…
A COURTYARD area at the new Migdale hospital is to be transformed into a Japanese style garden for the enjoyment of patients, courtesy of the Friends…