Sylvia MacKenzie described Highland Council as “a joke”, after she had to repeatedly chase up late or missing kinship carer payments.
A Greens Highland councillor has called for more staff to tackle a huge backlog of unresolved planning enforcement cases across the region.
Highland Council is investigating dozens of land owners and developers in the Inverness area for breaching planning rules, without sharing details.
Critics hit out at the spending of common good cash on funding '4000 people around £25 per head to attend five hours of entertainment.'
Highland Council has been criticised for failing to physically check homes to find out if they have a potentially dangerous type of concrete in them.
Doubling council tax on holiday homes could generate around £2.8m per year for cash-strapped Highland Council.
Calls for better signage were sparked after waters at popular Highland beaches were found to have broken pollution limits five times this summer.
New data showing 10 of the most dangerous single carriageway sections of the A9 are north of Inverness has sparked new calls for urgent investment.
A little known charity that raises cash from investments in tax-payer funded private finance projects has been criticised for ignoring Highlands
The former music venue has been empty since the start of February.
Highland Council has been warned a controversial licensing scheme for short-term lets may be “legally unsound”.
Despite hundreds of complaints from the public over dog fouling and litter, Highland Council issued no fines to offenders in the last year.
People could be banned from an area covering more than 50 sq km when a rocket is launched from a new Highland spaceport.
Two firms that run fuel storage sites have been rapped by a watchdog after being found to be in breach of laws designed to prevent major accidents.
The owner of land at Gairloch that could host a commercial gold mine has backed residents’ calls for a community benefit fund.
Are people across the region being let down when it comes to transport needs?
Residents of a Highland village have called on a Canadian gold mining firm to come clean about plans for a mine in the area.
