Community

Bower-based Norscot Joinery Ltd, a leading manufacturer of timber frame kit homes, windows, and doors, is celebrating its 40th anniversary.

Wick’s New Year street party is set to return this festive season, allowing revellers to welcome 2025 at a community celebration in the town centre.

A new employee is set to ‘manage and deliver efficient and effective activities’ for service users at Dunbeath and District Centre.

The seven candidates for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross share their top priorities ahead of tomorrow’s General Election.

A potential risk has been highlighted at a junction in Wick where a minor road alongside the cemetery joins the A99 on the outskirts of the town.

Community councillors in Wick could have a say in how the Bankhead Road junction looks after the completion of the current wind turbine deliveries.

Volunteers have been taking part in a major programme of maintenance to ensure Wick’s 120-year-old North Baths are ready for summer.

Highland Council leader Raymond Bremner has acknowledged the input of Wick community councillors in securing refurbished public toilets.

Some of the worst potholes in Wick are to be tackled over the next few weeks, according to an update from Highland Council leader Raymond Bremner.

Ahead of the refurbishment of the badly potholed Co-op car park in Thurso, a local wit has created a video lampooning its crater-like surface.

Residents and staff at Pentland View care home in Thurso laced up their trainers and warmed-up for a session of seated Zumba recently.

A gathering of councillors beckoned the reopening of the Whitechapel toilets in Wick on Monday morning after vandals forced their closure in 2019.

A bench has been installed on Wick’s North Head footpath in memory of a much-respected doctor who died last summer.

Last Wednesday (June 26), Ormlie sewing group ‘Sewing Together, Growing Together’ met for the last time before the summer holidays.

Despite its impending closure, around 10 people were observed utilising Wick’s Bank of Scotland over just three minutes this morning (July 1).

Diving club members in Caithness can look forward to many more years dventuring after wind farm funds paid for repairs to their dedicated vessel.

John Davidson takes on the Highland Cross for the eighth time as the 50-mile duathlon marks its 40th anniversary

Thurso provost Struan Mackie is relieved that Thurso’s three primary schools are all part of Highland Council’s £100 million masterplan for the town.

A local man had to stop his car on the Service Bridge in Wick to avoid a major obstruction he thinks could have wrecked his vehicle.

This year’s Caithness and Sutherland District Beaver Damboree was held at the 1st Caithness, 1st Wick Scout Hall an Kirk Hill.