Landward Caithness councillor Willie Mackay said Monday’s meeting in the Assembly Rooms in Wick looks like providing “another round of non…
AN engineering consultant from Caithness yesterday spoke about the "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity" to get involved in the British bid to create a world…
A PLAN to install a controversial sculpture at Dunnet Head viewpoint is to be dropped.
Chief executive Elaine Mead said an action plan has been drawn up to ensure the service “will be fit for the future.”
THIRTY staff at Mowat Technical and Design Services (MTDS) face an uncertain future as the company has applied to go into administration.
A PRIVATE equity company could be involved in taking over the failed Icetech freezer firm in Castletown.
A LOCAL councillor yesterday described as “totally disappointing” a response to a Freedom of Information request about the cost of setting…
AN act of vandalism at a historic Thurso church was this week described as “absolutely disgusting”.
WORKERS at the Icetech freezer factory in Castletown were “kept in the dark” about the liquidation of the company until the last minute, it…
A CAITHNESS couple got a huge surprise when they met Grand National winning jockey Ryan Mania on a trip to the Borders.
MEMBERS of Thurso Pipe Band were among a sizeable far north contingent who took part in the International Pan Celtic Festival in Ireland.
SCOTLAND is "a dinosaur when it comes to modern languages" according to far north Highland councillor Deirdre Mackay.
Iboga Nights deals with the controversial detox agent known as iboga or ibogaine and is his follow-up to a BBC documentary Detox or Die which was broadcast…
He said her achievement of winning three general elections and being prime minister for over 11 years would justify the money being spent by the state…
HOME carers in Caithness and other parts of the Highlands are being subjected to "Big Brother watching" by their bosses.
MARGARET Thatcher, who died on Monday at the age of 87, was yesterday described by a former senior Dounreay official as "energetic, intelligent and single-minded".
A PUBLIC meeting should be held to look at how a decision was reached on plans to erect two controversial sculptures at Dunnet – even though the…
THE appointment of two locum consultant physicians at Caithness General has been welcomed by the area’s civic leader Gail Ross.
A £146 MILLION project to deliver high-speed broadband across the Highlands and Islands could be "a game changer for the far north".
TWO local men were spared jail on Friday when they appeared on indictment at Wick Sheriff Court following a serious assault which involved a hammer.
