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Renewables comment forces respected councillor to quit planning committee

10 September 2025
Renewables comment forces respected councillor to quit planning committee

Renewables comment forces respected councillor to quit planning committee

10 September 2025

Matthew Reiss wants a pause on major projects causing ‘misery and waste’ until the grid has capacity.


Conservative Helen Crawford vows to take pylon fight to Holyrood with 2026 election bid

09 September 2025
Conservative Helen Crawford vows to take pylon fight to Holyrood with 2026 election bid

Conservative Helen Crawford vows to take pylon fight to Holyrood with 2026 election bid

09 September 2025

The Aird and Loch Ness councillor confirms she will run for the Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch seat in the 2026.


One of Dingwall’s favourite Indian restaurants to close after 20 years in business

08 September 2025
One of Dingwall’s favourite Indian restaurants to close after 20 years in business

One of Dingwall’s favourite Indian restaurants to close after 20 years in business

08 September 2025

The owners say ‘our time with you has been one of joy and happiness, so many beautiful memories’.


Spittal-Beauly pylon plan sparks Highland community council fury as they have just four weeks to respond

08 September 2025
Spittal-Beauly pylon plan sparks Highland community council fury as they have just four weeks to respond

Spittal-Beauly pylon plan sparks Highland community council fury as they have just four weeks to respond

08 September 2025

Amid calls for Highland Council to take action as they say this makes a ‘mockery of local democracy’.


SNP Tain and Easter Ross Highland Council candidate’s false education allegations slammed

03 September 2025
SNP Tain and Easter Ross Highland Council candidate’s false education allegations slammed

SNP Tain and Easter Ross Highland Council candidate’s false education allegations slammed

03 September 2025

LibDem Councillor Andrew Baxter says ‘Peter Newman failed to do his homework’ and is ‘simply wrong’.


Highland GP Andrew McFarlane arrested over online posts about his son’s rape victim Ellie Wilson

29 August 2025
Highland GP Andrew McFarlane arrested over online posts about his son’s rape victim Ellie Wilson

Highland GP Andrew McFarlane arrested over online posts about his son’s rape victim Ellie Wilson

29 August 2025

It is understood he has been released and is due to appear in court at a later date.


NHS Highland patient’s seven and half year wait to start mental health treatment

28 August 2025
NHS Highland patient’s seven and half year wait to start mental health treatment

NHS Highland patient’s seven and half year wait to start mental health treatment

28 August 2025

The north health board returns some of the worst numbers in Scotland.


Bught Park and the Northern Meeting Park officially reopen after £15.5m refit

27 August 2025
Bught Park and the Northern Meeting Park officially reopen after £15.5m refit

Bught Park and the Northern Meeting Park officially reopen after £15.5m refit

27 August 2025

The Levelling-Up investment secures the historic home of the Highland Games and permanent base for shinty.


Highland ‘sewage’ discharge sparks young surfers call for Scottish Water to put ‘Hobbies before Jobbies’

27 August 2025
Highland ‘sewage’ discharge sparks young surfers call for Scottish Water to put ‘Hobbies before Jobbies’

Highland ‘sewage’ discharge sparks young surfers call for Scottish Water to put ‘Hobbies before Jobbies’

27 August 2025

Six time national champion Phoebe Strachan says children, communities, and environment ‘deserve better than exposure to polluted seas’.


The LibDem vying to succeed Kate Forbes in Holyrood says it is ‘Time to say Goodbye to Highland Council’

26 August 2025
The LibDem vying to succeed Kate Forbes in Holyrood says it is ‘Time to say Goodbye to Highland Council’

The LibDem vying to succeed Kate Forbes in Holyrood says it is ‘Time to say Goodbye to Highland Council’

26 August 2025

Andrew Baxter picks-up where the outgoing MSP left off saying the council is ‘too large, too centralised, and too remote’.


Highland Council in top 10 most indebted UK local authorities in borrowing per person as total debt stands at £1.3bn

26 August 2025
Highland Council in top 10 most indebted UK local authorities in borrowing per person as total debt stands at £1.3bn

Highland Council in top 10 most indebted UK local authorities in borrowing per person as total debt stands at £1.3bn

26 August 2025

That is a a 14% rise in loans since last year totalling £161m, according to new figures.


Highland Council plan to drug test staff ‘with cause’ of ‘reasonable suspicion of impairment’

22 August 2025
Highland Council plan to drug test staff ‘with cause’ of ‘reasonable suspicion of impairment’

Highland Council plan to drug test staff ‘with cause’ of ‘reasonable suspicion of impairment’

22 August 2025

Examples were offered of ‘slurred speech, impaired movement, erratic or unusual behaviour’.


Dual the A9: How we secured the pledges from Scotland’s major parties to deliver by 2035

22 August 2025
Dual the A9: How we secured the pledges from Scotland’s major parties to deliver by 2035

Dual the A9: How we secured the pledges from Scotland’s major parties to deliver by 2035

22 August 2025

The SNP, Liberal Democrats, Conservatives and Labour all commit to Transport Scotland’s timetable.


Anas Sarwar: ‘If this was the road between Glasgow and Edinburgh it would have been fixed by now’

21 August 2025
Anas Sarwar: ‘If this was the road between Glasgow and Edinburgh it would have been fixed by now’

Anas Sarwar: ‘If this was the road between Glasgow and Edinburgh it would have been fixed by now’

21 August 2025

The Scottish Labour leader signs The Inverness Courier’s Dual the A9 Pledge saying ‘this is the route’ to opportunity and potential in the Highlands.


Readers’ fury at ‘industrialisation’ of ‘precious’ Highland landscape sees calls for ‘halt’ to new renewable projects

20 August 2025
Readers’ fury at ‘industrialisation’ of ‘precious’ Highland landscape sees calls for ‘halt’ to new renewable projects

Readers’ fury at ‘industrialisation’ of ‘precious’ Highland landscape sees calls for ‘halt’ to new renewable projects

20 August 2025

Dozens lash out at ‘big energy’ and Scottish Government ‘riding roughshod over our environment and our local democracy.’


Scottish Conservatives vow to speed up drive to dual A9

18 August 2025
Scottish Conservatives vow to speed up drive to dual A9

Scottish Conservatives vow to speed up drive to dual A9

18 August 2025

The Scottish Conservatives are the latest political party to sign The Inverness Courier’s Dual the A9 Pledge - and vow to speed up the programme.


‘Shocking’ no-show of Scottish and UK governments ministers at Inverness renewables convention

13 August 2025
‘Shocking’ no-show of Scottish and UK governments ministers at Inverness renewables convention

‘Shocking’ no-show of Scottish and UK governments ministers at Inverness renewables convention

13 August 2025

Non appearance aggravated tensions as campaigners demand Planning Inquiry Commission into projects.


Highland community councils persuade 11 MPs and MSPs to take renewables fight to Holyrood and Westminster

12 August 2025
Highland community councils persuade 11 MPs and MSPs to take renewables fight to Holyrood and Westminster

Highland community councils persuade 11 MPs and MSPs to take renewables fight to Holyrood and Westminster

12 August 2025

A packed and passionate Inverness meeting was told ‘no financial compensation can ever replace what we stand to lose.’


NHS Highland relies on four other health boards to provide lifesaving vascular treatment

05 August 2025
NHS Highland relies on four other health boards to provide lifesaving vascular treatment

NHS Highland relies on four other health boards to provide lifesaving vascular treatment

05 August 2025

Bosses are told the system is surviving off emergency protocols and locum cover during search for long-term solution.


Highland deliberate self-harm cases reach 1547 in five years according to new figures

01 August 2025
Highland deliberate self-harm cases reach 1547 in five years according to new figures

Highland deliberate self-harm cases reach 1547 in five years according to new figures

01 August 2025

LibDem Caithness, Sutherland and Ross candidate David Green says ‘clearly not enough is being done’.


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