The deployment and number of staff working in the service was deemed to be insufficient.
The League of Friends of Caithness General Hospital have part funded the purchase of an AccuVein machine for use in the outpatient department.
Data shows the Highlands came in seventh.
The RNLI has stated that a Thurso man who admitted a charge of driving while unfit through drink or drugs was not involved with the organisation.
His offences were committed against six women between 2008 and 2020 in the Moray, Easter Ross and the Inverness areas.
Gary Campbell was jailed for 12 years following one of the first convictions of its kind in Scotland.
Watten SWI met last Friday at the Watten Hall for the bulb show.
THE provost of Inverness Cathedral and a prominent UK cabinet member are among those to have defended under-fire MSP Kate Forbes overnight.
The former director of a free-range egg company has been jailed for two years and three months for animal welfare and hygiene offences.
A THURSO woman has been warned that a prison sentence will be “staring her in the face” if she doesn’t mend her ways.
A MAN who disobeyed two court orders has been jailed for eight months.
A WICK woman smashed a car window after getting caught up in a disturbance, the town's sheriff court heard today.
A WICK man who had sex with an under-age girl will today spend the festive season behind bars.
A WICK woman who behaved in a threatening or abusive manner towards her partner has been fined £200.
Nominations are being sought to recognise stars of the far north sporting scene.
Police were alerted about a suspected drunk-driver on board an Orkney ferry and caught up with him in Caithness, Wick Sheriff Court has heard.
A WICK man has admitted having sex with an underage teenager.
A THURSO woman who stole a fire pit from a shed in the town got her fingers burnt.
Jamie Stone, Liberal Democrat MP for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross is backing calls for a General Election.
THE murderer of Renee and Andrew MacRae will die behind bars after being found guilty of the pair's deaths 46 years after the crime.