?Golspie Church of Scotland minister Dr John Sterrett, jetted off in January to visit an orphanage in India run by India Village Ministries, an organisation…
POLICE are looking for the owner of a dog which bit a holidaymaker whilst she was walking in an East Sutherland village.
People power has notched up a victory today as The Highland Council has assured organisers of free-to-enter events that there will be no change to the…
Police and ambulance have been dealing with a one vehicle road traffic collision which happened on the A894 just south of Kylesku this morning.
New mobile camera vans are to be located along the A9 in Caithness in a bid to prevent road accidents in the area.
CONTROVERSIAL fees for public entertainment licences in the Highland look set to be vetoed by licensing chiefs, who admit the proposed charges would be…
Rob Gibson, SNP MSP for Caithness, Sutherland and Ross has called on Sports Scotland to ensure the funding of the Dornoch sports complex.?
A Sutherland woman has won a Travelling Fellowship from the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust. Sixty-five-year-old Ann Pascoe from Portgower is amongst…
A PLEA to extend opening hours of Highland pubs to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in the summer looks set to be rejected.
The new-look Dornoch Co-op was officially opened yesterday. Children from Dornoch Primary School performed the ribbon cutting ceremony, with Gillian MacNab,…
The Scottish Gamekeepers Association (SGA) warned today that over-culling of deer to support forestry and conservation is putting rural jobs and livelihoods…
Sir – I am acting on behalf of the authorities at the United Nations Memorial Cemetery in Busan, South Korea, where over 800 British servicemen are at…
Sir – Voluntary groups, societies, gala committees and fete organisers throughout the Highlands are waking up to new requirements, first to license events…
"FAIR is fowl and fowl is fair", to slightly alter the spelling of the witches’ words in Macbeth. Readers will recall my account of the sad demise (foul…
NIGEL MURRAY, Rogart’s top curler and current leader in the Province League Championship for the Sutherland Cup, went half way to completing the double…
?Thirty one young runners from East Sutherland Athletics Club travelled to Nairn on Saturday for the final of the North District Cross Country League.…
A PETITION containing 700 signatures is to be presented to Dr Michael Foxley, leader of Highland Council’s administration, asking the local authority…
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…