The Dingwall MSP says ‘the best way to deliver the urgent change Scotland needs is to join with John Swinney’.
Now Ms Forbes is set for her own announcement this afternoon about whether she will run for the top job.
Malcolm MacLeod, Kate Lackie and Allan Gunn are made assistant chief executives at the local authority.
The Highland MSP says she is conscious of a ‘groundswell of support’ but she is still ‘weighing everything up’.
The plans are aimed at dealing with at least 12 school and spending millions more on much needed road repairs.
The former First Minister’s frequent visits to the north after period when the Highlands did not feature in national politics
Mr Yousaf said was facing two motions of no confidence and the likelihood of being forced from office if he chose to stay.
Kate Forbes is a favourite to succeed him after Douglas Ross demanded he step down.
The Conservative and Labour leaders are spearheading efforts to topple the First Minister who vowed to ‘fight on’.
Pressure was mounting on the First Minister to ditch his coalition partners from backbench MSPs like Fergus Ewing and Kate Forbes.
The council claims it will save £310,000 with the new structure which aims to strengthen strategic and operational delivery.
The local authority claims she would be leaving the role after just under three years ‘to pursue other interests’.
David Green aims to replace the SNP’s Maree Todd in Caithness, Sutherland and Ross after a close-run contest in 2021
Trees for Life says it is ‘hugely worrying and a move in the wrong direction’ while Oxfam Scotland call it ‘an acute global embarrassment’.
Politicians must now get permission from the education boss to visit schools which they say impedes their ‘ability to represent our constituents’
Top officials say that councillors, MSPs and MPS must get permission from education bosses before visiting schools.
Geoff Aberdein says the party needs to hold the Highlands ‘to have any chance of winning’ the general election in Scotland.
The alarm was raised by a councillor concerned mourners could be taken in by fraud.
Batty’s Baps has fluttered to a new home - and now has a unique calling card from a local celebrity.
On a visit to Dingwall he said ‘I've certainly not seen any evidence of that in the last 50 hours. I've seen quite the opposite.’