19 April 2024
The council claims it will save £310,000 with the new structure which aims to strengthen strategic and operational delivery.
19 April 2024
The local authority claims she would be leaving the role after just under three years ‘to pursue other interests’.
17 April 2024
Politicians must now get permission from the education boss to visit schools which they say impedes their ‘ability to represent our constituents’
17 April 2024
Top officials say that councillors, MSPs and MPS must get permission from education bosses before visiting schools.
12 April 2024
The Lib Dems came in second, the SNP in third and the Conservatives were fourth.
11 April 2024
Highland Council admits it is baffled by a spate of cat and dog illnesses in an Inverness neighbourhood.
06 April 2024
Cllr Alasdair Rhind, who represented the Tain and Easter Ross ward, will be buried following a funeral service on Friday.
05 April 2024
Highland householders are being blamed for causing a series of explosions at an East Lothian energy plant.
04 April 2024
Saddened community figures have called Cllr Alasdair Rhind a “font of knowledge, gentleman and friend”.
03 April 2024
Plans have been revealed for a pumped hydro storage scheme in the Highlands which would be one of the largest of its type in the UK.
02 April 2024
He says it is ‘crucial’ schools ‘are not granted an exemption when it comes to political scrutiny.’
02 April 2024
He was backed by Struan Mackie who accuses the council of ‘creating a culture of fear and intimidation.’
21 March 2024
The council refuses to say what 'approve leave' is or why the top official does not appear to have been at work since at least February 21.
19 March 2024
Objectors comments about odours and architecture were dismissed as the application passed unanimously.
18 March 2024
A Greens Highland councillor has called for more staff to tackle a huge backlog of unresolved planning enforcement cases across the region.
15 March 2024
3380 bins for its for the revamped waste and recycling collections had ‘minor problems' but service is not affected.
05 March 2024
Trials are set to begin next week in the Highlands on a new method of repairing potholes that uses debris found by the roadside.
04 March 2024
Unison has 'grave concerns' about violence in schools and the EIS has lashed out at proposals to cut 70 principal teachers.
29 February 2024
The agreed proposals are branded 'nebulous, vague, hazy, obscure, indistinct, unclear, indefinite, murky, blurred, formless and featureless.'
29 February 2024
Council leader Raymond Bremner says it 'allows for significant investment to take place and protect jobs across our communities.'