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Illegal fly-tipping is costing taxpayers in Caithness and other parts of Scotland more than £2. 5 million a year.

Caithness International Science Festival 2021 is running online throughout March and has a a special presentation with an astronaut on Wednesday.

Highland Council members agreed that surplus reserves should be invested in the organisation’s recovery from Covid.

A community activist has been helping transform Thurso's town centre with a major flower-planting initiative and a little help from his gnome friends.

Subsea7 and Shell UK have teamed up to instal speed signs at Reiss in a bid to address road safety concerns.

A Thurso man has become the first person from the far north to become a director of Community Land Scotland.

At a Highland Council meeting yesterday (March 4), it was agreed there will be no increase on Council Tax rates for the next financial year.

A Thurso man was out with his two dogs on Murkle beach when he found, what appears to be, an ancient crucifix lying on the shoreline.

Eligible residents across Caithness could benefit from up to 100 per cent Scottish Government grant funding available for first time central heating.

Retired bus driver Sandy Barclay from Thurso is 'eggstatic' after finding a £5000 winning ticket in a Cadbury's Creme Egg on a trip to a Lybster shop.

A message in a plastic bottle thrown into the sea at Lybster in 1994 has turned up on an Orkney beach after travelling around 100 miles.

Libraries in the Highlands are taking their events to celebrate World Book Day and encourage reading across communities on social media today.

The Fishermen's Mission charity is seeking creative talents to help it put together a calendar for 2022.

Over £79k has been committed to community groups in the far north thanks to grants awards from the Caithness and North Sutherland Fund.

David Stewart has contacted the cabinet secretary for rural economy in a bid to secure the remaining funding needed to allow the project to go ahead.

Existing land reform policies 'do not go far enough' says Lib Dem candidate for the far north.

North MP Jamie Stone today sought the backing of Health Secretary Matt Hancock for encouraging the Scottish Government on vaccine rollout.

The Catholic church is calling on the Scottish Government to remove the cap on numbers of worshippers and treat religious buildings 'like retail'.

NHS Highland has welcomed Dr Sadat Muzammil to the post of clinical director in its north sector.

MSP Edward Mountain hopes apprenticeship schemes will help reverse the figures showing falling population numbers in the Highlands.