But what does that mean for the Highlands including vital sectors like the whisky industry?
The rises are the local authority’s way of dealing with both a massive deficit and to invest in infrastructure.
Rachel Reeves’ inexplicable and extraordinary winter fuel betrayal is a whole lot worse than "Maggie Thatcher Milk Snatcher", says our columnist.
She says ‘I hope that proposed refinancing solutions can ensure the long-term sustainability of the club’.
She says ‘one of Labour’s very first decisions’ was to scrap winter fuel payments leaving over 800,000 pensioners with less money to heat their homes.
A disabled pensioner is being pursued for a £12,000 council tax debt owed by his dead mum.
Hundreds of pounds have been raised for a prominent children’s charity appeal thanks to the efforts of pupils at an Inverness school.
Just 6772 now qualify which is a drop of 88 per cent in the part of the UK with some of the harshest weather and highest fuel poverty.
It is one year since Inverness Foodstuff - tackling food poverty and social isolation - expanded its work from Ness Bank Church into Hilton.
Is the cost-of-living crisis still with us?