MSP Kate Forbes and her husband Ali Maclennan are expecting their first child in the summer.
Highland Council has reignited its search for a new £123,612-a-year deputy chief executive despite a number of councillors strongly opposing the move.
MP Jamie Stone says 'people in the far north will not take kindly to being told what is best for them by a Glasgow SNP councillor'
Businesses still have work to do despite relief that restrictions brought in due to the Omicron variant of Covid-19 will be lifted from Monday.
Mr Stone says 'we are watching the nation plummet further into a fuel poverty crisis'
The First Minister confirms that Scotland has turned the corner on the Omicron wave'
Councillors will be asked to agree to a one per cent increase in rents for social housing to help balance the books.
Highland Council is set to enter the housing market in a bid to tackle the shortage of accommodation across the region.
The easing of restrictions imposed before Christmas will do nothing to help small hospitality businesses, claims the Federation of Small Businesses.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has confirmed that limits of 500 attending large outdoor events in Scotland will be lifted from Monday.
Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross accuses her of a U-turn that left the country as an 'outlier'
Work on a new prison for the Highlands is under way after more than a decade of delay which has seen construction costs double.
In an exclusive interview with political correspondent Scott Maclennan, SNP MSP Emma Roddick hits out at over-tourism and 'remote' central belt bias
Councillor Struan Mackie previously dubbed the regionalisation of councils as 'a failed experiment'
The first decision taken at Friday's postponed Highland Council meeting was to cancel a key item seen as a means to hold the leadership to account.
The last full Highland Council meeting of the year has had to be postponed for the second year running due to IT issues.
A blistering assessment of the condition of local road surfaces sparked a bitter political exchange at Highland Council.
Highland Council's work towards living wage status has stalled, the local authority's leader admitted.
Caithness councillor Matthew Reiss has called on MSP Maree Todd to look into funding “discrepancies” he says have seen Highland Council short-changed.
Voluntary parking charges will be introduced at a number of popular car parks in Caithness.
