A FURTHER 13 Covid-19 cases have been detected across the NHS Highland health board area.
RAIL services were suspended between Georgemas Junction and Ardgay on Tuesday – amid continued snow disruption on the Far North Line.
A FURTHER 29 people have tested positive for Covid-19 across the NHS Highland health board area in the past 24 hours.
FLOOD alerts are in force in Caithness and Sutherland as milder air begins to trigger a thaw across the Highlands.
HUGE snow drifts were continuing to cause major disruption on Highland railway lines on Monday.
NHS Highland has recorded 25 further positive tests for the coronavirus in the past 24 hours.
POLICE have appealed for information after thieves broke into a house in Caithness.
Vaccination teams have been praised for their “heroic” efforts after Scotland recorded a daily record for the number of Covid jags administered.
It comes after the health board's number of coronavirus intensive care patients reached another record level for the pandemic.
LAST night’s deep freeze saw the coldest February temperature recorded since 1955, even topping figures during the infamous snow of the winter of ‘63.
TEMPERATURES in the northern Highlands have plunged to a frigid -22C amid warnings from police to avoid unnecessary travel.
THE coldest UK temperature for a decade has already been surpassed just hours later – with the mercury falling in one Highland spot to -18.8C by 9pm.
AREAS without snow have been left "tinder dry" and pose an "extreme" risk of wildfire, the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service has warned.
NHS Highland has detected another 19 Covid-19 cases in the past day
A FURTHER 32 positive tests for the coronavirus were recorded across the NHS Highland health board area in the past 24 hours.
NINE Covid patients were in intensive care in NHS Highland sites last night.
ANOTHER 47 positive tests for Covid-19 have been recorded across the NHS Highland health board area in the past day.
A FURTHER 38 newly-confirmed cases of Covid-19 have been recorded across the NHS Highland health board area in the past 24 hours.
MORE than 4000 confirmed cases of Covid-19 have now been detected across NHS Highland area – after another 42 positive tests were recorded overnight.
AN AMBER snow warning has been issued for swathes of the Highlands, after the Met Office upgraded existing alerts.