Highland Council

Four varied projects have secured backing, some provisional on match funding being identified.

Primary pupils from across Ross and Skye are being invited to take part in an special art competition to celebrate the coronation of King Charles III.

An accumulation of snow and sleety showers are making for difficult driving conditions in parts of Ross-shire this morning.

People are being advised to plan their journeys due to the road closures.

Hopes that Ross-shire's county town can tap the multimillion-pound spin-off from the new Cromarty Firth freeport have been raised.

The last three remaining residents of a Wester Ross care home have been transferred ahead of its closure.

Highland councillors celebrated the successful green freeport bid at today’s meeting of the full council, though not everyone was convinced.

It comes as two members warn that officer numbers are at their lowest level since 2017

Scores of schools across the Highlands are either closed or opening later than usual this morning.

Councillor Raymond Bremner said many of the budget savings haven’t been easy.

Highland Council will vote this week on whether to cancel plans to increase the cost of electric vehicle chargers by 130 per cent.

The community has voiced deep concern over what the future holds for care of the elderly across a huge area in the north-west Highlands.

The weather has taken its toll on schools across the Highlands with a number closed and others delaying their opening this morning.

Gritters are patrolling trunk roads across the Highlands while police warn of dangerous conditions in some areas.

At an SNP leadership hustings event in Inverness yesterday, potentially breaking up Highland Council was mentioned. What territory does it cover?

She says ‘we need to do more on decentralisation and we need to improve local decision making’

He told SNP members in Inverness 'on their boards should be people who make up those communities, who live in those communities'

She tells SNP members in Inverness 'we need to decentralise power further but real empowerment'

Snapshots into peoples’ favourite places, memories and what they believe to be the ‘spirit’ of the Highlands are highlighted.

The old bin will then be used for plastic containers and the blue bin for paper and cardboard