A 31-YEAR-OLD man who pretended to be half his age to get naked images of girls sent to him received 300 hours of unpaid work instead of jail.
Three Dingwall schoolchildren were offered drugs by a Tayside man who asked one of the girls to take a tablet he said was valium.
Ross MP Jamie Stone has sent out a message of support for today's International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia.
Inverness Sheriff Court heard the man had been tricked by a group called Hampshire Predator Hunters.
A Dingwall woman was warned she could face being locked up after an attack with a knife left another teenager scarred for life.
A man who posted an intimate video of a woman on a "swingers" website has been fined £470 in a Highland court.
A driver who stopped in the middle of the road despite a green traffic light was found to be drink-driving after being breathalysed by police.
A former soldier who served in Northern Ireland had a "traumatic experience" there and has not recovered since, Inverness Sheriff Court was told.
Police carried out a routine stop of a vehicle on the Kessock Bridge and found the driver was under the influence of cocaine.
The Tain man is expected to appear at court again within the next eight days.
A delivery driver's careless overtaking manoeuvre on the A9 near Rosskeen landed him a ban and fine.
A Dingwall man who was in an Inverness bar shortly after his 18th birthday had a knife in his back pocket.
A scaffolder who was badly burned in an explosion while growing cannabis in a rented house in Ross-shire was jailed for two years.
A housebreaker’s lawyer has appealed to a sheriff to have his client assessed for a drug treatment and testing order in an bid to end his offending.
A woman was fined and banned for drink-driving.
A mechanic running late for an appointment allowed his concentration to slip and his car to straddle two lanes of a busy road.
A teenager appeared to play the Good Samaritan when a bank customer left her ATM card in the machine.
A woman spat a man's drink in his face at an Easter Ross pub customer and then implied she had coronavirus.
A 31-year-old man pretended to be half his age and attempted to persuade young girls to send naked images of themselves to him.
Three men have been remanded in custody after appearing in private at Inverness Sheriff Court following an alleged serious assault in the city.
