Business

Conservative group leader Ruraidh Stewart demanded answers about the ‘unlawful’ Academy Street scheme.

An award-winning female engineering student from Wick has praised Dounreay for promoting equality during her work at the former nuclear site.

That is despite a large increase in Scottish Government funding announced in the draft budget.

Tourism groups welcome the move saying if it is ‘well-implemented’ it could ‘bring significant benefits to our region’

The radioactive contamination that has suspended work on a high voltage cable between Orkney and Caithness is being linked to wartime aircraft.

Dounreay’s new supremo is looking to get the site on an even keel after it has had to negotiate some choppy waters in recent years.

A Caithness business leader has given a mixed reaction to last week’s Scottish Budget, which crofters say leaves people in rural areas worse off.

The owners of a 19th-century Caithness mill are holding a topping out ceremony to celebrate a renovation that is bringing new life to the building.

Work on part of the high voltage cable between Orkney and Caithness has been suspended because of the presence of radioactive contamination.

HIE said the crofter would continue to receive a rental income as part of the lease agreement.

The world-leading MeyGen tidal energy site being developed in the Pentland Firth has reached full power for the first time.

The move to ‘better serve’ the north follows Kate Forbes’ call to dismantle the local authority.

Community and business representatives are reeling from Orbex’s shock decision to halt work on the spaceport it was developing in north Sutherland.

Consent has been granted by Scottish ministers for changes to a proposed wind farm near Lybster.

A champion heifer from the Begg family at Nybster has topped the Christmas sale price at Quoybrae for the third year running.

Caledonia Offshore Wind Farm, developed by Ocean Winds, has funded a new pre-apprenticeship programme.

More cash will come north but the jury is out on whether finance secretary Shona Robison delivered for the north.

The spaceport was set to be built on land owned by Melness Crofters’ Estate on the A’Mhoine Peninsula.

The news that Sutherland Spaceport is to be mothballed is a significant blow to the business community in north Sutherland and Caithness.

Highlands and Islands Enterprise said it was not yet clear of the impacts of Orbex’s decision on Sutherland.