For the 2023/24 permit season, Highland Council is keeping the price at £47.75 per permit for the opt-in brown bin service.
Immigration enforcement officers arrested a man at a Highland takeaway.
The 32-year-old had a reasonable excuse for having the weapon.
The pair made no plea, were committed for further examination and remanded in custody.
An 82-year-old woman's home was damaged when an intoxicated intruder set fire to her garden shed and it spread to the property's roof.
A Dingwall man has been warned he could go to jail after 'deplorable' behaviour in a Highland court building.
A ROSS-SHIRE man who was a member of a drugs gang has been ordered to hand more than £7000 over to prosecutors under proceeds of crime legislation.
Timbers forming the support mechanisms of the steeple are in a 'precarious and worrying condition'.
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"This is a grave charge and a custodial sentence of a considerable length is a very real possibility."
The court heard details of a crime spree which involved several premises across the Highlands and revealed some common themes.
An Easter Ross man spat at a police officer and racially abused another shortly after being released from a two-year prison sentence.
A Ross-shire dealer who had been supplying drugs for over six years has been jailed for 18 months at Inverness Sheriff Court.
He saw a vehicle being driven erratically with two burst tyres.
Owura Edwards was shown the red card by a sheriff for taking his mum's car without permission and driving the wrong way on a one-way street.
The appearance was in private at Inverness Sheriff Court.
Police stopped a man in a Dingwall Street for a routine check and got a strong smell of cannabis off him.
A Ross-shire man was hit over the head with a home-made metal weapon after he confronted his attacker outside his home.
A former Celtic youth coach has been convicted of sexually assaulting boys who he had befriended while running a soccer academy in Easter Ross.
The jury hearing the case against the former football coach has been offered alternative interpretations of what happened.