A CHARITY is seeking £100,000 from Highland Council towards the cost of building a new visitor centre and restaurant at the Falls of Shin.
ROSS-SHIRE councillors have put on hold a plan to spend nearly £100,000 hiring three people to deliver "confidence building courses" for job-seekers.
A VETERAN councillor who spent 15 years stripping away myths to expose the involvement of Highlanders on slave plantations has been published in a book…
REPAIRS are to go ahead to improve Alness Academy after it was condemned as the poorest building in Highland Council’s school estate.
Tax office workers in Inverness have been told that the office will close in 2017 as part of a government project designed to save…
Tax office workers in Inverness have been told that the office will close in 2017 as part of a government project designed to save…
PLANS have been approved in principle to give all primary schools in Highland a janitor.
THE cost of car hire for Highland Council workers is to be scrutinised after a councillor branded the £30,000-a-month bill “a disgrace”.
A SENIOR Highland councillor’s persistent calls for a copy of the leader Margaret Davidson’s meetings diary has led to accusations that he…
PLANS to knock down a derelict corner shop and replace it with a block of 12 flats in Kyle have been turned down.
A BLACK ISLE crofting family have won a four-year battle to get the go-ahead to build their dream home on their own land.
The Scottish National Party has announced its regional list candidates in the 2016 Scottish Parliament election.
THE new Ross-based councillor for Aird and Loch Ness said her father would be proud of her win.
THE LIBERAL Democrats are celebrating after winning a Highland Council seat from the SNP in a close-run by-election.
THE results of a Highland Council by-election will be anounced later today (Friday).
COUNCILLORS have demanded compensation for Ross communities after a damning report highlighted a catalogue of failures behind a school building programme.
A MULTI-MILLION Highland Regional Sports Centre has moved a step forward after Highland Council agreed funding of up to £150,000 to develop detailed…
ROAD improvements to alleviate traffic jams at the Kessock Bridge junction are topping Highland Council’s list of projects to be funded from a hoped-for…
DESPERATE failures in Highland Council’s computerised debt-recovery system have cost the tax payer hundreds of thousands of pounds.
A confidential report seen by the Ross-shire Journal today signals plans by Highland Council to merge two of its arms length organisations in…
