LOOK out for your older neighbours, relatives and friends during the cold snap, a Scottish charity has urged Highlanders amid fresh warnings for snow.
SNOW and ice warnings have been issued for the whole of the Highlands – amid forecasts for wintry weather overnight and on into Friday.
HIGHLANDERS woke up to a hard frost on Wednesday after the "coldest night of the winter" sent temperatures plunging as low as -12.2C.
RAIL passengers on the Kyle line were facing disruption on Wednesday after two trains were cancelled between Inverness and Kyle of Lochalsh.
NEARLY 240 Covid cases were detected across Inverness and neighbouring communities in the seven days to January 2, official figures have revealed.
NO fewer than 450 positive tests for Covid-19 were recorded across the NHS Highland area over the long New Year weekend.
DASHCAM footage is being sought by police investigating a one-vehicle crash in Sutherland that left the driver in hospital.
A MAN has been killed in a road crash on the A9.
A 'SERIOUS' road crash has sparked the closure of the A9 in part of Ross-shire, police have warned.
A CHARITY for the elderly has urged Highlanders to pull together again to support each other following news of a return to a full Covid-19 lockdown.
YELLOW ribbons fluttered on an Inverness bridge today in a campaigner's symbolic act of solidarity with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
A FURTHER 1905 Covid-19 cases have been detected across the whole of Scotland in the past 24 hours.
GOLD false teeth, a framed century-old Highland map, and £5000 of camera kit were among the bizarre items left at Travelodge's Inverness hotels.
THE A9 has reopened following an earlier crash, Traffic Scotland has confirmed.
POLICE have appealed for help tracing a missing man who has not been seen for a month-and-a-half.
EMERGENCY crews are in attendance after a road crash closed the A9 in both directions in Sutherland.
THE Covid-19 infection rate across Highland Council has risen to its highest confirmed level of the entire pandemic.
EIGHTY-one new Covid-19 cases have been recorded across the NHS Highland area – meaning that almost 750 positive tests were recorded in December.
DOZENS of homes on the south side of Loch Ness were without power this morning after a fault on overhead lines.
HIGHLAND motorists have been urged to take care after reports of heavy snow in the Slochd area of the A9.
