Environment

HIGHLANDERS woke up to a hard frost on Wednesday after the "coldest night of the winter" sent temperatures plunging as low as -12.2C.

A SNOW and ice warning for the Highlands has been extended well into Hogmanay.

TWO new weather warnings for snow and ice have been issued for parts of the Highlands over the next 50 hours.

HOPES for a White Christmas have received a faint boost after the Met Office issued a yellow warning for snow in the Highlands into Christmas Eve.

Total of 12kms of overhead line and 46 steel towers replaced by underground lines

Young bird has been enjoying fishing in salt lake in Senegalese sunshine

Badenoch and Strathspey will continue to have ice days but their number will fall

YET another bout of heavy rain is set to deluge Highland communities overnight and into tomorrow, the Met Office has warned.

HEAVY snow on the Highland mainline was causing delays for railway passengers on Friday morning.

Water dispenser will tap into global efforts to reduce plastic waste

MOTORISTS on the A9 and in the Cairngorms National Park face snow disruption during Friday morning's rush hour, forecasters have warned.

Summer flower meadows have been established in locations which benefit a range of insects

Xander Johnston has been named the winner of The National Biodiversity Network Young Person's Award for 2020

Call for bans on overnight parking and fines for those who become too intoxicated and make life a misery for local residents

Usually garden waste collections stop for the winter at the end of this month

Met Office says enough rain fell across Britain to fill the whole of Loch Ness

The structural steel will provide for a 15m span foot bridge or 7.5m light vehicle bridge

New arrivals will graze land and help improve food source for endangered bird

'Managing deer necessary to cut ecological damage and protect young trees which is imperative in climate change battle'

The Scottish Gamekeepers Association has presented public petition to Nicola Sturgeon demanding cull is halted