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MPs slam Prime Minister Keir Starmer for ignoring Highlands over GB Energy location

MPs slam Prime Minister Keir Starmer for ignoring Highlands over GB Energy location

MPs slam Prime Minister Keir Starmer for ignoring Highlands over GB Energy location

Lib Dems warn this could be ‘sign of things to come’ under Labour as Aberdeen gets the HQ, Glasgow and Edinburgh get a site each.


Crofting is ‘much more than a hobby’ – report shows £588m value of sector

Crofting is ‘much more than a hobby’ – report shows £588m value of sector

Crofting is ‘much more than a hobby’ – report shows £588m value of sector

Crofting representatives have said a new report outlining the sector’s value to the Highland economy shows its potential across the whole of Scotland.


Major power lines ‘had no impact on house prices’, claims energy report

Major power lines ‘had no impact on house prices’, claims energy report

Major power lines ‘had no impact on house prices’, claims energy report

Worried residents’ concerns over the impact of a massive power line on their house prices were unfounded, energy chiefs have claimed.


ACTIVE OUTDOORS: Highland volunteer helped check 7500km of routes featured in new Scottish Hill Tracks book

ACTIVE OUTDOORS: Highland volunteer helped check 7500km of routes featured in new Scottish Hill Tracks book

ACTIVE OUTDOORS: Highland volunteer helped check 7500km of routes featured in new Scottish Hill Tracks book

Colin Cadden committed to surveying all the Cairngorms routes in a new guide to Scotland’s rights of way. John Davidson spoke to him in Glen Feshie


10 turbine Caithness wind farm approved by Scottish Government despite Highland Council objection

10 turbine Caithness wind farm approved by Scottish Government despite Highland Council objection

10 turbine Caithness wind farm approved by Scottish Government despite Highland Council objection

A wind farm south-west of John O'Groats has been approved by the Scottish Government despite objections from Highland Council and others.


Three Sutherland beaches in new list of top 50 UK beaches

Three Sutherland beaches in new list of top 50 UK beaches

Three Sutherland beaches in new list of top 50 UK beaches

Sandwood Bay, Balnakeil Beach and Dornoch Beach have all made it into the list of the top 50 beaches in the UK.


PICTURES: Caithness tractor enthusiasts travel to Sutherland for special tour of GMG Energy

PICTURES: Caithness tractor enthusiasts travel to Sutherland for special tour of GMG Energy

PICTURES: Caithness tractor enthusiasts travel to Sutherland for special tour of GMG Energy

Twenty-one members of the Caithness Vintage Tractor and Machinery Club recently embarked on an insightful visit to GMG Energy in Strath Halladale.


Kyle of Sutherland Fisheries hold first volunteer drop-in session at tree nursery

Kyle of Sutherland Fisheries hold first volunteer drop-in session at tree nursery

Kyle of Sutherland Fisheries hold first volunteer drop-in session at tree nursery

The Kyle of Sutherland Rivers Trust is growing trees from local seed to be planted along river banks for shade.


Halladale Film Club to run Do What You Can Day for second year running as part of climate festival

Halladale Film Club to run Do What You Can Day for second year running as part of climate festival

Halladale Film Club to run Do What You Can Day for second year running as part of climate festival

The Do What You Can Day will include a clothing recycling session, meal and film screening.


Friday the 13th blackface lamb sale in Dingwall figures revealed

Friday the 13th blackface lamb sale in Dingwall figures revealed

Friday the 13th blackface lamb sale in Dingwall figures revealed

The principal blackface lamb sale was greeted with a healthy ringside of buyers.


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