A HEALTH chief has warned there is a higher risk of a measles outbreak in the Highlands because thousands of school children are not fully protected, as a hangover of the national MMR scare more than a decade ago.
Published: Fri 24 May 2013
CRUNCH talks over the future of flights between the Highlands and London will be held today (Friday) - a day after budget airline Flybe announced the sale of its Gatwick runway slots to easyJet for £20million.
Published: Thu 23 May 2013
THE only unit for female inmates at a Highland jail has been shut, angering the senior councillor who chairs the prison's visiting committee because she was not even told.
Published: Thu 23 May 2013
FEARS about the potential for a road accident at a rapidly expanding Ross-shire "micro-village" have resulted in councillors postponing a decision on three new houses by a local developer.
Published: Wed 22 May 2013
EVERYTHING must be done to maintain flights between the Highlands and London, according to the chief secretary to the Treasury.
Published: Wed 22 May 2013
HOT on the heels of their local derby victory over Inverness Caley Thistle, Ross County have announced the re-signing of nine first team squad players - and plans for no fewer than nine pre-season away days.
Published: Sun 19 May 2013
ROSS County capped a classy SPL debut season with a richly deserved 1-0 win over their Highland rivals.
Published: Sat 18 May 2013
YOUNG Tain club swimmers from Ross-shire and Sutherland have been swimming well at meets across Scotland.
Published: Sat 18 May 2013
WITH home turf advantage Tain began their challenge to win an eighth Dornoch Firth League title last Saturday morning.
THE passing of the International Space Station in the skies above the Cromarty Firth has been captured in a stunning photograph taken by reader Alan Ross.
Space station lights up Easter Ross sky
A SALMON leaping up Rogie Falls near Contin, snapped by Alan Cruickshank of Dingwall.
Salmon leaping at Rogie Falls
THE view across to the picturesque Wester Ross village of Shieldaig, taken from the coast road to Applecross by Brian Alexander from Kirkhill.
A crofter's cottage overlooking Shieldaig
A RECENT summer's day in Wester Ross was brightened further by a rainbow, mirrored on the clear waters of Annat Bay, Loch Broom.
Rainbow reflected on bay
THIS haunting image of the MacDonald Monument towering over Dingwall in the dark was taken late at night with a Nikon P510 by local teenager Joanie Mutch (13) of Burn Place.
The MacDonald Monument dominates Dingwall's dark skyline
A WINTER sunset glistens as gold on the Cromarty Firth behind a solitary oil rig, by Bill Gall of Invergordon.
Sunset glows on Cromarty Firth rig
Ullapool's busy Shore Street taken from the pier by Brian Alexander from Kirkhill.
Ullapool's busy port
GEESE flying over a harvested field of bales at Drummond, Evanton by Linda Ross.
Geese flying over harvest
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