SEVEN massive Neolithic cairns and 300 new Bronze and Iron Age sites have been found in Caithness following the first large-scale survey of its kind to…
THE Olympic torch will be making a brief appearance at John O’Groats as it makes its way round the Highlands over three days in June. It will be at Groats…
EARLY diagnosis and early treatment is the key to the much-improved survival rates for prostate cancer in Scotland, according to a North MSP. Mary Scanlon,…
AROUND 200 people have signed a petition to oppose plans to remove trees at the gardens in Sir John’s Square in Thurso.
A CAITHNESS couple are “overwhelmed” that a local football team is to stage a fundraising event next month in memory of their daughter.
GRANTS worth more than £1.5 million have been awarded to North Highland College UHI in a bid to help tackle youth unemployment.
A PUBLIC inquiry is to be held in Thurso next week into controversial plans by the Highland Council to make a compulsory purchase of a 19th-century building…
A PLEA is to be made to transport minister Keith Brown for a road bypass scheme at Thurso. That was decided by members of the town’s community council…
A WICK law firm, which was at the centre of a legal probe, is being wound up with the loss of four jobs. The move, which heralds the end of the Highland…
15 years on, frustrated family makes fresh appeal for information...
THE amount of rubbish being discarded around Castletown is “horrendous”, according to a community councillor.
A BID to erect a sign in English and Gaelic at Wick Airport has been slammed as "unnecessary nonsense" by a Highland councillor.
THE Royal Hotel in Thurso is to reopen in March after a four-month winter closure. The hotel in Traill Street is scheduled to start trading again on March…
OVER 700 discarded cans were picked up by a Castletown man over a three-week period. But that figure was down by half compared to what John Calder collected…
EIGHT cancer patients in Caithness have had to get charity handouts to help them heat their homes.
AN elderly woman was taken to Caithness General Hospital in Wick today after being in a road accident in the town. One vehicle was also involved in the…
GETTING a kick out of life is literally something two Caithness families know all about. Mike Ritchie, from Thurso, his son, Michael, and daughter,…
A CREDIT union in the Highlands and Islands has enjoyed its busiest start to a year in its five-year history. Membership of the HI-Scot Credit Union now…
THE North of Scotland should be considered as a possible site for the headquarters of the country’s new single police force. That is the view of Highlands…
A WOMAN broke a court curfew for the second time in a matter of days because she had no money for electricity and went to a house which had heating, Wick…
