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New local advisory committees have been formed to help shape the direction of the merged UHI North, West and Hebrides college.
The sounds of Irish country music will fill the air in east Sutherland next month with a special appearance from the award-winning Stephen Smyth Band.
Farmers and crofters have called for more timely intervention to help them mitigate against the impacts of white-tailed eagle predation on lambs.
A film about Caithness, its people and landscape is to be screened in Thurso next week.
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NHS Highland has launched an app to help new dads in the north cope with the significant change in their life.
A Wick youngster who has previously been the chair of the Highland Youth Parliament has been elected to represent the far north again.
A Wick volunteer is playing his part in ensuring the war graves in the town’s cemetery are maintained to the highest possible standard.
The "unbelievable" shortage of indoor sports facilities in the Thurso area is having "a serious impact" on local clubs and groups.
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An elderly Castletown man with major health issues says he will make himself homeless and live in a van due to the cost of heating his damp home.
Efforts have begun to secure funding for urgent repairs to a storm-damaged harbour wall at Wick amid fears that a collapse would be a "catastrophe".
Ten out of the 11 most dangerous single-carriageway sections of the A9 are north of Inverness, new figures have revealed.
A Caithness councillor is calling on an animal rescue charity to rethink its "shocking" decision to close its far north centre near Dounreay.
Village Inn proved unbeatable in the second division of Wick and District Pool League, winning all their matches.
Thurso United has taken delivery of a defibrillator with support from the Scottish Football Partnership Trust and Kilpatrick Fraser Charitable Trust.
Club told they don’t have the required licence.
Manager Gary Manson admitted Wick Academy’s away results have been “absolutely rotten” after their penultimate fixture of the 2023/24 campaign.
The Krakens have a chance to make history on Saturday when they line up in the final of the women’s National Plate at Murrayfield Hive Stadium.
Half a dozen Caithness players travelled took part in the R Clouston Ltd Orkney Championships, a Badminton Scotland “B” ranking event.
High Ormlie Hotspur are setting their sights on a county league title challenge after proving their cup credentials over the past two seasons.
Head coach Tom McKenna is urging Caithness Ladies to get back to enjoying their football and not put themselves under undue pressure.
The Scottish National Whisky Festival will return to the Highland capital this summer for its third consecutive year.
John Davidson explores a quieter route in the hills above Dores, where a new hydro development looks set to impact on the area in the next few years
A mystery donor is helping to build bridges in the north of Scotland after pledging thousands of pounds to a Highland trail group.
Exploring the remote lochs and lochans of Caithness is not the same challenge that it once was, but there are few who have visited them all
John Davidson completes a loop of the Great Glen Way, taking in the newly signed high-level route over Carn na Leitire
An award-winning performance from theatre dance company Curious Seed will come to the Lemon Tree in Aberdeen for one night only.
Shed Seven have announced a special 30th anniversary tour which will be coming to Aberdeen.
It opens in Highland Scotland but then spreads out to make connections with cultures across the world.
Direct from the West End, The Drifters Girl comes to Aberdeen and we speak to Carly Mercedes Dyer who plays Faye Treadwell in the hit show.
Professor David Wilson has joined forces with Marcel Theroux for a new tour – Killer Books – which is coming to Aberdeen.
Bob Harris and Colin Hall are heading to St Margaret's Braemar with their show focus on The Beatles.
The "enduring legacy" of Mary Queen of Scots will be celebrated at a new exhibition which is set to get under way in Wester Ross.
Ullapool art gallery, An Talla Solais, has launched its latest exhibition in partnership with the Highland Print Studio.
The ITV News International Affairs Editor became unwell while presenting the News At Ten programme on Friday.
The annual event sees cyclists in period costumes travel through the streets of London.
No decision has been made and the proposal has not yet reached the Prime Minister, it is understood.
The First Minister’s comments came as the Alba Party held an emergency meeting to discuss the way forward.