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A special correspondence came in from Thurso High School student reporters Maisie Swart and Lily-Rose Carlise, about a Battle of the Bands event.

Thurso Players is putting on its annual children’s performance, Whoops XXVII and the Enchanted Stage, this Friday and Saturday at the Mill Theatre.

A former member of Wick Players who has reached dramatic heights with his theatrical work will be hosting an event at Moray Street in Wick next week.

A 50-year-old man was arrested due to outstanding warrants at an address in Castletown yesterday afternoon.

Wick Co-op is set to be ‘totally transformed’ with an extensive eight-week programme of works and improvements underway.

King Charles III will be showing two of his watercolours at this year’s annual exhibition by the Society of Caithness Artists in Thurso.

Spirits were high this afternoon as whisky enthusiasts gathered in Inverness for an annual whisky festival.

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Northern Drift by Monique Sliedrecht

Highland Council’s environmental health team advises caution as blue-green algae has, once again, been found in Loch Watten.

Invernessian Duncan MacAulay explains what is it like to get a second chance at life after a heart transplant.

A popular vessel returned to the Scottish Traditional Boat Festival to give people an insight into how fishermen worked in days gone by.

Dogs of all shapes and sizes gathered at Newtonhill Community Woodland on Sunday to be judged in a show run by Caithness Canine Club.

A Wick woman was dumbfounded when she prepared to take a drive, finding three tyres flat to the ground in an apparent act of vandalism.

No injuries were reported despite an ambulance being at the scene of a car crash in Thurso on Friday afternoon.

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Pictures of an unusual visitor seen at a Watten birdfeeder that stands out from the flock due to pale colouring caused by a genetic mutation.

Caithness athletes were well represented at the Highland Cross on Saturday, when participants in the 41st staging of the event endured hot conditions.

See our selection of pictures from the historic day as LGBTQ+ people and their allies gathered together to celebrate.