Almost 300 Speyside homes and businesses were left without power, with engineers predicting it could take hours to restore.
Police are “increasingly concerned” for the welfare of a missing Highland man who has not been seen since a sighting on the rail network on Friday.
Appliances from Inverness, Nairn, Grantown-on-Spey and Forres were scrambled to the scene at 2.35pm amid an active extreme wildfire warning.
The warning is in force on Saturday and Sunday, amid forecasts for locally persistent rainfall in some parts of Highland and Moray.
Emergency services have scrambled to the scene after an overturned vehicle closed the A9 in both directions between Slochd and Carrbridge.
Inverness-based Highland Business Services (HBS) will merge with Laurencekirk’s Ringlink (Scotland) after the co-operative’s members voted in favour.
It is one of the finalists in the running for the Beer & Cider Product of the Year title for its multi-award winning Black Gold stout.
Firefighters have again been scrambled to Dava after another wildfire in the area. The call came in at 3.02pm.
Ecstatic groups fighting plans for a swathe of 4G masts in some of the Highlands’ most unspoilt landscapes are declaring victory after a sharp u-turn.
Scotland’s gamekeepers have urged a rethink on incoming muirburn licensing restrictions in the wake of this week’s massive wildfires.
Dramatic video footage has emerged of a fireball meteor which streaked across Highland skies in the early hours of this morning.
High-visibility police patrols have spoken to hundreds of motorists at major Highland tourist hot-spots in a bid to cut serious crashes in the region.
The tide is turning in the battle against major wildfires which have raged in the Highlands and Moray in recent days, firefighters have said.
Several key roads remained closed on Monday lunchtime amid major wildfires in the Carrbridge and Dava areas.
Tireless fire crews and others battling raging wildfires have been hailed for their efforts - as further video of the scale of the blazes emerges.
A 1AM police update urges residents in the Forres and Elgin areas to keep windows and doors closed amid smoke from raging wildfires in the region,
Intense thunderstorms could bring up to 80mm of rain to parts of the Highlands tomorrow, the Met Office has warned.
MFR’s former Inverness base has been put up for sale after it vacated the building due to cutbacks.
Parents across Scotland will be able to ask for a Gaelic school to be established in their area as part of legislation plans highlighted in Inverness.
A £100 million combined turnover is expected to be generated by the planned merger of two major agricultural co-operatives in the north.