An expert in Scottish Gaelic literature says he “can’t wait” to take on his newly-appointed role as Scotland’s national poet ...

The head of a victim support group has said electronic monitoring tags need to provide “better safeguards” as official ...

A fundamental change in how NHS services are provided is “urgently needed”, ministers have been told, with public spending ...

The number of private in-patient/day-care hospital admissions in Scotland reached its highest quarterly level earlier this ...

John Swinney said the statement of the government’s tax and spending plans, which will be published by Finance Secretary ...

MSPs on Holyrood’s Education Committee have been examining the changes proposed in the Education (Scotland) Bill.

Retail sales in Scotland decreased by 2.9% in November when compared with last year, according to the SRC-KPMG Scottish ...

Trade unionists are to demonstrate outside Holyrood calling for pensioners to have more help heating their homes this winter.

There are now five Multibank charity centres across Britain, which have distributed five million products to half a million ...

Police are “increasingly concerned” about a man reported missing after failing to return from a fishing trip. Fraser Allan, ...

More than 400 ‘concern for person’ incidents have been recorded at the Kessock Bridge in the last six years. Data from Police ...

October saw four Highland suicides over just eight days — proving that Cromarty-based charity James Support Group is needed ...