Politics

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

The Highlands is 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’.

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

Graham Leadbitter recommends the constituency to his parliamentary colleagues

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.

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’.

Inverness MP Angus McDonald has said he will be encouraging the energy minister to base the GB Energy headquarters in the Highlands.

New member for new seat says it has been a ‘very intense’ first week at Westminster

Highland Council is set to benefit from a funding boost by the Scottish Government to support the growth of the EV charging network.

A Conservative with strong Highland connections is reportedly considering a bid for the party's soon to be vacant Scottish leadership post.

Had he been up against a less formidable, energetic and convincing challenger he might have resisted the anti-SNP tsunami, says our columnist.

Scottish Government is poised to award the construction contract to Balfour Beatty.

Meanwhile Liberal Democrats head to London to represent the Highlands with a new UK government in place.

Reaction from party after pulling off shock win in Inverness seat