An 11-foot high wall could be driven through the heart of Ballater's golf course and caravan park as part of a proposed £31 million flood protection scheme.
Time was when election outcomes depended (or were thought to depend) on competing parties’ claims to economic competence.
It was one of the most brutal acts in the history of Scotland; the depopulation of vast swathes of the Highlands.
Amidst the worst hunger many would ever know, children and old people died in their hundreds.
What will happen if the United Kingdom government opts – as now seems probable – for a ‘no deal’ departure from the European Union on 31 October?
Two recently undertaken studies of Highlands and Islands prospects have come up with very different takes on where the region is headed.
If or when Theresa May follows the example set by several of her 10 Downing Street predecessors and publishes a memoir of her time there, who will she blame for the enforced loss of office that begins today with her resignation as leader of the Conservative Party?
What connects last month's Extinction Rebellion (XR) protests with next month's commemoration of the D-Day landings of 75 years ago? At first glance, not a lot.
In country after country, schoolchildren have been staging protest marches.
The restrictive immigration regime planned by Theresa May’s government ‘completely pulls the rug from under the feet of business and communities in the Highlands and Islands’.
Because news is very much about the here and now, it’s not often that a press release prompts much in the way of thinking about the longer-run significance of whatever’s being publicised.
If there were a national to-do list, a piece of paper itemising tasks that need attending to if Britain’s to be made a better place, what might that list contain?
All nationalisms romanticise the past. That includes the nationalism fuelling the drive for Brexit. Whether this nationalism is British or English in inspiration isn’t clear. But what’s certain is that talk of long-gone glories has been integral to the Brexit project from the start.
Who would be a councillor? Sure, the position’s often rumoured to come with lots of payments, perks and privileges. But even if these tales were true, and they aren’t, the job would be the worst in politics. Because it has been stripped of what gives point to being in politics at all.
I enjoy a good political debate.
As the Press and Journal's Keep HIE Local campaign gathers pace, the agency's former chairman and SNP party member, Professor Jim Hunter, today accuses SNP ministers of launching an "assault" on its founding principles.