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Road policing officers are appealing for information following a fatal road crash on the A9 last night.

Walking the plank and a quest for chocolate treasure were among the activities at a pirate-themed camp in Watten attended by 1st Wick Scout Group.

A family double spanning a period of more than four decades proved to be the main talking point in round 19 of the A&A Mackay Builders Summer League.

Wick's Laurandy Centre marked National Food Bank Day on Friday by donating 48kg of essential items to the volunteers at Caithness Foodbank.

An exhibition coming to Caithness later this year will include the medicine chest of Bonnie Prince Charlie's personal physician, used at Culloden.

Carol Phillips has continued her crochet work with further donations of over-knee blankets to a care home and a supported housing facility in Wick.

Idleness 'the cause of hysteria' in 1922, a boatyard reprieved in 1972 and the death of Princess Diana in 1997.

Entries to Reay and District Garden Club’s annual show were higher than expected after the enforced absence of two years.

Nancy Foggo was the special guest at a music night held by Thurso Monday Club, with Willie Mackay also performing some tunes on the spoons.

Charley Sutherland (16), from Halkirk, has become the latest pupil of the Tanya Horne School of Highland Dancing to win her pre-championship title.

Members of the SWI's Caithness Federation received the trophies they won at the Caithness County Show.

House captains and vice-captains at Keiss and Bower are looking forward to developing their leadership roles after being voted in by fellow pupils.

North man killed in Canada in 1922, Midnight movie to benefit youth club funds in 1972 and Drugs awareness event for Caithness in 1997

A Victorian building at the entrance to Wick's old cemetery that had been repeatedly vandalised has been modernised and is now for sale.

Award-winning writer and performer Skye Loneragan continues her Scottish tour of Though This Be Madness at Lyth Arts Centre next month.

Youngsters from Crossroads Primary School and Scallywags Nursery picked up a bumper crop of prizes at their local flower and vegetable show.

Ofgem has today confirmed the energy price cap will rise by 80 per cent from October – taking the average gas and electricity bill to £3,549 a year.

Two writers, each with a different take on history, are set to appear at the next event on the John O’Groats Book Festival programme.

Two brothers are undertaking a NC500 charity cycle trip in memory of their late cousin who took his life last year.

Staff from the Rosebank wing at Caithness General Hospital, past and present, gathered to mark the retirement of long-serving colleague Pat McGee.