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Scotland’s richest man and largest landowner, Anders Holch Povlsen bought the Dores Inn on the banks of Loch Ness in 2024.

Scotland's richest man wins approval for revamp of his Loch Ness pub

Highland Council's headquarters in Inverness

Rapist taxi driver gives up licence ahead of review

Monica Lennon

I will end the factional infighting in Scottish Labour

Michael Marra, Monica Lennon, and Joe Fagan

Scots Labour leadership contender takes swipe at Sarwar joining Lords

Wardens issue 167 fines in two weeks since parking charges started

Councillor Chris Birt

SNP councillor suspended over rapist taxi driver licence scandal

Councillor Duncan Macpherson, Councillor John Grafton, Councillor Sean Kennedy and Willie MacKay have all resigned from Highland Council's licensing committee.

Explainer Why a rapist taxi driver was able to keep an operating licence

Inside a state of the art data centre. Campaigners in Scotland have warned that the Scottish Government's policy on data centres has major shortcomings in the face of a surge in new applications for the facilities.

Thousands object to 'humungous' data centres as deadline looms

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and James Murray, Chief Secretary to the Treasury, left, meet Labour Party members at Kingsdown Methodist Church Hall in Ealing, west London, on Friday

Exclusive Scots Labour MPs warn against quick Keir Starmer leadership challenge

Anas Sarwar and Sir Keir Starmer

Sarwar staying as Labour leader - but won't say for how long

Jordan Linden arrives at Falkirk Sheriff Court

First Minister: Jailed Jordan Linden must 'apologise to his victims'

Scottish-born Dancing on Ice star Mark Hanretty hosted the European Figure Skating Championships in Sheffield.

Dancing on Ice star backs calls to save Time Capsule ice rink

Sir Olly Robbins was impressive at the Foreign Affairs Committee

Analysis Olly Robbins puts Keir Starmer's coat on an even shooglier peg

The Time Capsule ice rink in Coatbridge is slated for closure.

Petition launched in campaign to save 'essential' Scottish ice rink

Pleasance Courtyard.

Residents 'third class citizens' after Fringe negotiates noise limit

SNP councillors stripped of extra payments after Jordan Linden fallout

Calls for SNP candidate to be sacked over Jordan Linden scandal

John Swinney refuses to say if SNP aides knew about Linden scandal

Councillor Gary Bouse Picture: Contributed

Exclusive SNP MSP candidate 'openly defied' Swinney over World Cup holiday

Plans to knock down Glasgow West End restaurant and supermarket

The council says tough decisions need to be made.

'Tough decisions' needed to close Scottish council's £134m funding gap

The Subtropical Swimming Paradise will sit at the heart of Center Parcs Scottish Borders. PIC: Center Parcs.

Center Parcs gets 'right to roam' restriction on first Scottish site

An Lanntair’s funding is set to be cut under council plans.

Arts centre planning £47,500 of cuts after 'disappointing' budget

An Lanntair is among the arts organisations facing a funding cut.

Crown Estate could plug culture funding gap in Western Isles

The Scotsman's Westminster Correspondent Andrew Quinn interviewing SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn

Flynn's Westminster allies hoping to follow his lead to Holyrood

There has been a proliferation of renewable energy applications in the Borders

Borders joins calls to pause Scotland's renewable energy rollout

The control zone would cover Inverness and the Loch Ness area.

Scottish council told to halt plans for holiday let control zones

The powerline is proposed to increase the flow of renewable energy to the National Grid.

Contentious powerline from Highlands to North East blocked by council

Alba leader Kenny MacAskill

Exclusive Alex Salmond's Alba Party left with one councillor as member quits

The Subtropical Swimming Paradise will sit at the heart of Centre Parcs Scottish Borders. PIC: Centre Parcs.

Center Parcs gets green light for 700-lodge park in Scottish Borders

Two councillors have joined the Scottish Greens.

Former SNP and Labour councillors join the Scottish Greens

Visitors head to Edinburgh Christmas market.

Edinburgh to get nearly 500 affordable homes from new 'tourist tax'

Portree Harbour on the Isle of Skye

New short-term lets zone 'may be justified' in Highlands hot-spot

It should be unsurprising that there has been local resistance to the wave of new pylons, wind farms, pumped hydro, electricity substations and battery storage schemes in parts of Scotland (Picture: Danny Lawson)

Council to consider 'largest renewables project in Highland history'

Cameron Barracks in Inverness

Exclusive STUC to host summit 'to reject disinformation' over Cameron Barracks

The former Golf Hotel has been saved from demolition.

Historic 125-year-old hotel saved from demolition

There are seven laid-up submarines at Rosyth

Exclusive Swinney told to stop 'deceiving public' and clarify defence position

Competitors take part in the International Medieval Combat Federation World Championships at Scone Palace in 2018.

Crowning place of Robert the Bruce to get £10m transformation

Cameron Barracks in Inverness

Asylum seekers 'not mass murderers and rapists', Highlanders told

The Christmas Market in Princes Street Gardens in Edinburgh

Expansion plans for Edinburgh's Christmas festival rejected

Shieldaig in Wester Ross is one village where the number of short-term let properties is rising faster than the Highland average. PIC: CC

Highlands considering new clampdown on holiday lets like AirBnb

The Royal Mile during the Edinburgh Fringe.

Push to delay introduction of Edinburgh tourist tax thrown out

An aerial stock view of Glasgow. Picture: Richard McCarthy/PA Wire

City Leader accuses Reform, asks other councils to take more refugees

The Christmas Market in Princes Street Gardens in Edinburgh

Exclusive Edinburgh's Christmas festival contract referred to spending watchdog

A file picture showing a typical example of another battery energy storage system (BESS).

Council votes on revoking permission for 40MW battery storage plant

A number of changes at schools have been proposed following the Supreme Court’s judgement that, for the purposes of the Equality Act, the term ‘sex’ refers to a person’s sex at birth only.

Edinburgh schools must 'comply with the law' over single-sex toilets

A child at nursery, as Edinburgh City Council has come in for criticism.

Exclusive More private nurseries in Edinburgh 'will shut without U-turn'

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