09 May 2024
The departure of Humza Yousaf was all but welcomed by Inverness MSP Fergus Ewing and I doubt MP Drew Hendry needed to wipe away the tears either.
09 May 2024
She is now surely the most influential political voice to emerge from the Highlands in a generation. But just who is Kate Forbes?
08 May 2024
Kate Forbes has been appointed Deputy First Minister by John Swinney, it has been announced.
08 May 2024
Too many Highlanders have frightening recent experiences of wildfires, says MSP
07 May 2024
Every new First Minister says words to the effect that they intend to govern for the whole of Scotland.
07 May 2024
Alex Salmond is set to give evidence to the A9 dualling inquiry at Holyrood tomorrow.
07 May 2024
SNP leadership, end of the power-sharing agreement with the Greens and wood-burning stoves are among the hot topics for our MSP.
07 May 2024
We are getting set to host an event to discuss the development and future of the scheme this month.
06 May 2024
John Swinney has been crowned the new leader of the SNP after winning the support of potential contender, Highland MSP Kate Forbes.
04 May 2024
Duncan McDonald is taking on his latest challenge as the newly-elected independent representative for Inverness South on Highland Council.
04 May 2024
Failure to bring back a late night train linking Inverness with Ross-shire communities is having an “affect on the city’s night-time economy”.
03 May 2024
The last few years in Holyrood has seen a fixation on the peripheral at the cost of the substantial, says our columnist.
03 May 2024
Highland MSP Fergus Ewing is demanding Scotland’s future First Minister makes a concrete pledge on A96 dualling before the summer.
02 May 2024
In less than two years Scotland has had three Prime Ministers and will get its third First Minister – without a vote.
02 May 2024
Kate Forbes says the SNP must ‘rewin trust’ but is change possible for a party after 17 years in power?
02 May 2024
She says ‘the best way to deliver the urgent change Scotland needs is to join with John Swinney’.
02 May 2024
Colleagues paid tribute to her saying ‘ thank you Bet, thank you for all you have done’.
02 May 2024
Now Ms Forbes is set for her own announcement this afternoon about whether she will run for the top job.
01 May 2024
With not a single rural MSP in the Scottish cabinet since Humza Yousaf came to power, we have been forgotten, says our columnist.
30 April 2024
The Highland MSP says she is conscious of a ‘groundswell of support’ but she is still ‘weighing everything up’.