Politics

Unesco World Heritage Site status for the Flow Country will unlock a raft of economic, environmental and social opportunities, it has been predicted.

The Highlands is set to miss out on the chance of becoming home to a new UK public energy company, according to reports.

Fergus Ewing warns ‘this is unfair to the existing businesses and potentially illegal and unsafe for holiday makers’.

New MP for Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire tells us about his first two weeks since the general election.

Scottish Labour says ‘This is what privatisation looks like – those who can, pay for a private dentist; those who can’t, suffer’

Highland Council has said an analysis that ranks it as the worst local authority in Scotland ‘does not reflect the true picture of Highland’.

Holyrood Notebook by Maree Todd

Highland MSP Rhoda Grant has backed calls for GB Energy to be based in the Highlands.

From the moment the shots were fired I struggled to comprehend what I was seeing, said our columnist.

Single mum-of-one Lauren Johnstone, from Fortrose was unable to return to full-time work due to not being able to access childcare.

In the first adjournment debate of new the parliament, he said: ‘17 years of centralisation has wreaked havoc on my part of the world’.

Deputy First Minster Kate Forbes has spoken about her experience with postnatal depression on the new series of the podcast, Speaking of Suicide.

Campaigner Laura Hansler says it is ‘absolutely inexcusable’ that the highest recorded speed was 140 mph.

MP Jamie Stone says ‘the Highlands is the biggest generator of clean, green energy in Scotland, and yet we suffer from a lack of job opportunities’.

He says he has heard ‘horror stories’ but ‘there is not the wit or willpower in the Scottish Government’.

The Scottish Government wants to appoint two new land commissioners and a new tenant farming commissioner to join the Scottish Land Commission board.

Hs highly motivated campaign team were prepared to go to extraordinary lengths on his behalf over an unprecedented period of time, says our columnist.

Highland Council is set to benefit from a funding boost by the Scottish Government to support the growth of the EV charging network.

‘Mentally, I’m really not sure I could cope with the drama and unpredictability of another Trump term.’

Angus MacDonald will also regretfully resign as a Highland councillor for Fort William and Ardnamurchan.