Politics

Unesco World Heritage Site status for the Flow Country will unlock a raft of economic, environmental and social opportunities, it has been predicted.

Inverness and the Highlands are set to miss out on the chance of becoming home to a new UK public energy company, according to reports.

Fergus Ewing warns ‘this is unfair to the existing businesses and potentially illegal and unsafe for holiday makers’.

Making HIAL-operated airports more efficient and boosting connectivity in the region are among the outcomes to be achieved by 2025.

New MP for Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire tells us about his first two weeks since the general election.

Graham Leadbitter recommends Moray to his parliamentary colleagues.

Scottish Labour says ‘This is what privatisation looks like – those who can, pay for a private dentist; those who can’t, suffer’

Highland Council has said an analysis that ranks it as the worst local authority in Scotland ‘does not reflect the true picture of Highland’.

Highland MSP Rhoda Grant has backed calls for GB Energy to be based in the Highlands.

The findings show that 42 per cent of respondents believe economic prosperity ranks above the NHS in Scotland.

The record low figures are particularly damaging for the Scottish Parliament and Government as trust fell below 50 per cent for the first time.

From the moment the shots were fired I struggled to comprehend what I was seeing, said our columnist.

Single mum-of-one Lauren Johnstone, from Fortrose was unable to return to full-time work due to not being able to access childcare.

In the first adjournment debate of new the parliament, he said: ‘17 years of centralisation has wreaked havoc on my part of the world’.

Deputy First Minster Kate Forbes has spoken about her experience with postnatal depression on the new series of the podcast, Speaking of Suicide.

Campaigner Laura Hansler says it is ‘absolutely inexcusable’ that the highest recorded speed was 140 mph.

MP Jamie Stone says ‘the Highlands is the biggest generator of clean, green energy in Scotland, and yet we suffer from a lack of job opportunities’.

He says he has heard ‘horror stories’ but ‘there is not the wit or willpower in the Scottish Government’.

“If logic and rational decision making determines the choice, then the Highland capital should be where this new body is sited,” says Fergus Ewing.

Inverness never expected to be Europe’s oil and gas capital - nor should Aberdeen be the renewables capital, says SNP MSP.