Politics

Fiona Hyslop was speaking after the Scottish Government put in place ‘emergency controls’ on spending.

Fiona Hyslop was speaking after the Scottish Government put in place ‘emergency controls’ on spending.

“Unwavering commitment” to dualling of the A9 has again been stressed by the Scottish Government after the project reached another milestone.

The Scottish Government has taken the decision to follow the UK government in no longer providing winter fuel payments to all pensioners.

A councillor who has served his ward for more than 17 years has stepped down.

Transport secretary at the time Jenny Gilruth said it did not represent ‘best value’ prompting an 18 month delay.

My colleagues and I around the cabinet table have a duty to regain and re-earn the trust of the Scottish electorate

The success of the new Highland National Treatment Centre is “heartening”, a local MSP has said after figures revealed it had “exceeded expectations”.

It feels like months of learning, actions and travel have been crammed into that short time

Fergus Ewing MSP is calling for £100 million of Scottish Government spending on greener public buildings to be redirected into NHS building projects.

Opposition parties say they are ‘horrified’ by the move warning of the ‘potentially devastating unintended consequences’.

Problems include a ‘no documentation or scrutiny of the whole discharge planning’ process and a lack of review leading to ‘significant cost impacts’.

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’.