Politics

US private equity firm Quantum Energy Partners will put up the cash to create oil rig decommissioning and off shore wind farm facility

The Inverness and Nairn MSP previously described the Greens as 'wine bar revolutionaries'

The MSP invited the Cabinet Mister to discuss the proposed Highland Protected Marine Areas with Ullapool Stakeholders

A BEDS crisis that sparked operation cancellations at Raigmore Hospital has prompted calls for urgent answers from concerned Highland politicians.

The veteran MSP was furious at what he calls their 'economic masochism' which would make climate 'actually worse not better'

Lib Dem Jamie Stone has asked the UK Government to do more to help overseas recruitment into the fishing industry.

The Conservatives hit out at the SNP's 'shocking indifference' saying it is 'unforgivable'

She called on other MSPs to join her as around 94,000 staff in Scotland are employed in insecure work

She says 'people are watching with astonishment but they want to see the leadership dealing with it'

PRESSURES that have led to operation cancellations at Raigmore "highlight again why the Highlands needs a new hospital", says an MSP.

'I welcome this development, which will create much-needed employment in the area.'

The Conservative MSP Jamie Halcro Johnston has urged the Scottish Government to go back to the drawing board.

MSP Rhoda Grant has said that "the song encapsulates the fury that is felt by rural communities."

An abandoned car which has been stuck in bushes next to a busy A9 roundabout for months has sat there so long it's been immortalised on Google Maps.

The Federation of Small Businesses has welcomed today's news from the Scottish Government, but environmental campaign groups say it comes as a 'blow'.

Humza Yousaf was making a major policy announcement just minutes after Fergus Ewing labelled the scheme a ‘green poll tax’

'Nobody is interested in us, and the people from the Central Belt think they can just do what they want when they have never worked in the sector.'

Mollie McGoran has been elected as chairperson of the youth-led, democratic organisation which aims to represent the young people of Scotland.

ANGRY residents have accused energy bosses of trying to "industrialise the Highlands" after they gathered to protest plans for major new power lines.

Rhoda Grant's pledge came at a reception marking the anniversary of a report warning that MND patients are waiting too long for accessible housing.