MSP for Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch will be in the United States.
Police suspected a Ross-shire man was in possession of drugs and recovered two wraps of cocaine weighing a total of 0.6 grams.
Inverness Sheriff Court heard the offender also subjected police to a tirade of abuse.
He was fined and given a driving ban at Inverness Sheriff Court.
A pensioner didn't see a pupil crossing the road in front of her as she dropped off her grand-daughter at Dingwall Academy.
A relationship break-up upset a 37-year-old Culbokie man so much he returned drunk to his ex-partner's house and became aggressive towards her.
An argument ensued when a Wester Ross man tried to prevent his partner from driving her car after drinking alcohol.
A shellfish processing worker banned from driving for having drugs in his system was spotted by police driving his VW Passat last month.
An Easter Ross man who recklessly spat at a police officer and racially abused another is back in prison after breaking a promise.
Officers from the National Child Abuse Investgation unit raided a Wester Ross house and found indecent images of children on a man's phone.
He turned to cannabis to give him pain relief for a spinal and knee condition.
A FURIOUS councillor has slammed online claims after a row erupted in Easter Ross over plans for houses on land that was gifted to the community.
He attacked his pensioner mother and then damaged his grandmother's home during a four-hour stand-off with armed police earlier this year.
The sheriff said: 'If the court tells you not to go near someone, you don't or you will go to jail.'
He was remanded in custody after the appearance at Inverness Sheriff Court.
A drunk Dingwall man who abused police while waiting to be sentenced for a similar offence 10 months earlier was told he was "a perennial pain".
Ross-shire man appears in court on drug supply charges.
A Ross-shire man who has served 11 prison sentences in the past six years has begun his 12th after admitting stabbing his partner on the head.
The cause of a lorry driver’s death in a crash on the A9 remains unexplained, a Fatal Accident Inquiry has heard.
Hundreds of pipers from across the world descended on the Highlands to take part in the Northern Meeting Piping Competition.
