New battle at Glencoe over hydro plans
A modern-day battle is brewing in Glencoe over plans for a river hydro scheme in the Highland village – 327 years after the infamous massacre involving two Highland clans.
Care home owners under fire for Culloden name
Owners of a new Inverness care home are under fire for planning to name it Culloden House – despite it being miles from the historic battlefield.
Raigmore porters given extra protection for dealing with clinical waste
Union bosses have welcomed moves by health chiefs to put in measures to protect porters at Raigmore Hospital in Inverness who are dealing with clinical waste – including extra staff.
Police name tragic bus driver as tributes continue to pour in
Tributes continued to pour in for a bus driver who died in a crash on the Black Isle as he was last night officially named by police as 50-year-old Mohamed Chache from Inverness.
Community school seeking new headteacher just three months after opening
A community owned school – which has been described as the first enterprise of its kind in Scotland – is looking for a new headteacher just three months after opening.
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Prince Charles is seeking an experienced hotelier to manage a guest house in his grandmother’s former home - the Castle of Mey in Caithness.
Keep left campaign on Skye wins political support
A woman who survived a horrific island crash has been given support in her “keep Left” campaign on Skye by local politicians.
Unpaid work order for Inverness housebreaker
A sharp-eyed neighbour contacted police when she saw two men trying to break into a house in Rosehaugh Road in Inverness, the city's sheriff court heard yesterday.
Unpaid work for man involved in Golspie fight
A fight in a Golspie house led to one man being treated in hospital for a knife wound to his leg and another sustaining a cut hand, a court was told yesterday.
Video consultation cuts hospital travel for almost 1,000 Caithness patients
Almost 1,000 patients have been saved from making gruelling 200-mile round trips to hospital thanks to pioneering video-consulting technology introduced in Caithness last year – and it has now been expanded to Skye and Golspie.
Inverness heroin supplier remanded for sentence
A 38-year-old Inverness woman who allowed a drug dealer to stay with her was also concerned in the supply of heroin in the city, a court has heard.
NHS waste from across north Scotland being sent to Shetland for incineration
Shetland Islands Council is incinerating hundreds of tons of NHS clinical waste from health boards across Scotland – including the Highland and Grampian – to help ease a national backlog.
Gas sniffer abused shopping centre staff
A habitual gas sniffer was abusive to security staff at the Eastgate Centre in Inverness when he was asked to leave the building, a court has heard
Kinloch Lodge fire-raising accused in court
A 25-year-old Oban man has appeared in private at Inverness Sheriff Court in connection with a fire at the Kinloch Lodge Hotel at Sleat on the Isle of Skye.
Assault accused remanded in custody
A 24-year-old Wester Ross man appeared in private at Inverness Sheriff Court yesterday on a charge of assault to severe injury. Callum Brown, of Ullapool, made no plea, was committed for further examination and remanded in custody.
Inverness man broke 73-year-old man’s jaw ‘because he felt like it’
A 24-year-old Inverness man who inflicted a double jaw fracture on a retired accountant "because he felt like it" was jailed for 18 months yesterday.
Bed numbers cut at Shetland hospital
NHS Shetland has been forced to temporarily close around a quarter of its beds in ward three at Lerwick’s Gilbert Bain Hospital due to staff shortages.
Inverness waiter found lurking around a property escapes jail sentence
A 43-year-old Inverness waiter who was found lurking around a property when it could be inferred he was there to commit theft escaped a jail sentence yesterday.
Scaffolder ordered to do unpaid work for assault
Inverness scaffolder Reece Taylor was ordered to carry out 180 hours of unpaid work after admitting assaulting his partner.
Shetland councillor urges men to get checked after prostate cancer diagnosis
A high-profile Shetland councillor who has revealed he has prostate cancer has called on all men not to ignore early signs of ill health.
Inverness man jailed for wine bottle assault on partner
A 25-year-old Inverness man who struck his partner over the head with a wine bottle and then tried to strangle a police sergeant was jailed for a year yesterday.
Malicious damage to city flats earns man 67 hours unpaid work
Two different reasons for trying to access a locked flat in Inverness landed a 38-year-old man in trouble with the law.
Highland Council spends £1.2m on ‘gagging orders’
Cash-strapped Highland Council has splashed out almost £1.2million on “secret settlements” with staff – sparking calls for greater scrutiny of public funds.
Hebrides hailed a top world tourist destination by CNN
The Hebrides have been named in the ‘19 Best Places to Visit in 2019’ list compiled by CNN Travel.
New NHS Highland chief executive appointed
A new chief executive has been appointed at crisis-hit NHS Highland.
Disabled Highland entrepreneur wins $500k to develop ‘smart wheelchair’
A disabled Highland entrepreneur has won $500,000 of international funding to develop a “smart wheelchair”.
Adventurer died in ‘accidental’ abseil tragedy at Highland nature reserve
A man who was killed in an abseiling accident in the Highlands died of accidental drowning, a coroner in England has recorded.
Lives put at risk on NC500 over vehicles blocking the road
Unions and locals have voiced fears that lives are at risk on the NC500 tourist route after occupants of two campervans clashed with an ambulance crew on a New Year’s Day call.
Semichem stores join forces with Caithness SSPCA
The Scottish SPCA has won backing from local Semichem stores in Thurso and Wick to help rehome pets in the region.
Tourism bosses admit error in posting pictue of Jimmy Savile’s former home online
Red-faced tourism bosses had to delete a photograph posted online to promote Glencoe – because it featured the former home of shamed celebrity Jimmy Savile.
NHS buildings under attack from pests including bats, seagulls and mice
"Ageing" NHS buildings in the Highlands are being plagued by hundreds of pest control incidents - including bats flying through hospitals and seagulls diving at new mums with babies.
Kidney dialysis patients face gruelling trips to Inverness three times a week
Seriously ill patients from the west Highlands and islands are enduring gruelling three-times-a-week trips of hundreds of miles for life-saving kidney dialysis – sparking calls for treatment to be made available locally.