Environment

Highland Council has warned that some private water supplies in the region could run low due to lack of rainfall.

Fifteen-year-old Finlay Pringle scooped the environment award in the Sunday Mail Young Scot Awards 2023.

For the 2023/24 permit season, Highland Council is keeping the price at £47.75 per permit for the opt-in brown bin service.

Police have also issued the same advice to people temporarily displaced by the fire, which has been burning near Daviot, south of Inverness.

TWO thunderstorm warnings have now been issued for the Highlands– after the Met Office announced a second alert.

Four crews were on the scene at 9am – down from six at the fire's peak – but the blaze was still burning and firefighters were still fighting it.

John Davidson spent a day training with Assynt Mountain Rescue Team in Lochinver and learned more about what this group of volunteers does

SIX crews from the Highlands and Moray – including one from Invergordon – were in attendance at the wildfire near Daviot this afternoon.

An Easter Ross community was the focus of a trailblazing new multi-species conservation programme, Species on the Edge.

The Met Office warning comes into force on Sunday afternoon and covers large parts of the Highlands.

Free advisory visits offering help to access grants for tree planting and woodland management are being offered to crofters and smallholders.

An area extending from Loch Ewe in the north to the Applecross peninsula in the south has been raised to "significant scarctiy" – the highest alert.

FIREFIGHTERS and gamekeepers who worked tirelessly to tackle a massive wildfire near Cannich have been praised in parliament by a Highland MSP.

Ullapool Sea Savers are offering a new coffee pod recycling service, with their installation of the new pod recycling box in Tesco Ullapool.

Parents of primary pupils have slammed Highland Council for its "incredibly uncooperative" response to concerns over weed-killer in play areas.

PARTS of the Highlands will be at extreme or very high risk of wildfires this week as a new warning is issued.

A HIGHLAND climate initiative is calling for people to share their personal experience on the impact of wildfires on the region's communities.

All Wester Ross, Skye and Raasay residents are welcome to attend.

Lorna Slater told Holyrood ‘we are urgently establishing to what extent there is a way forward for a modified scheme.’

'ABSOLUTELY overwhelming' public support for a devastated nature reserve scorched by a massive wildfire has been hailed by a leading charity.