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The Summer Sessions at the Rosebank Playing Fields in Wick have been hailed as "a big success" by the director of Lyth Arts Centre

A visit to the Pulteney Centre in Wick showed how a free shopping initiative has gone from strength to strength over the past year.

Members of Caithness Amateur Radio Society set up their shack this past weekend at Noss Head lighthouse for the annual event Lighthouses on the Air.

Wick and District Pigeon Club held a young bird race from Beauly, a distance of 83 miles, on Saturday.

A new report finds that many butterfly species are flourishing in Caithness and the rest of Scotland.

Weather Watch by Keith Banks

A hen harrier in the north of Scotland is one of three across the UK that will be monitored thanks to a crowdfunder appeal.

Thurso water supply concerns in 1922, Pulteney workshop 'situation' in 1972 and HIE success claims challenged in 1997

Thurso glass artist Ian Pearson is ready to get his teeth into his latest project, which will see him create a glass tiger inside a glass tiger...

A collection of three ruined and windswept cottages in Caithness, with views stretching over the moors and out to sea, are to go under the hammer.

A Thurso restaurant owner has praised the sterling efforts of recycling workers who helped reunite him with a locket containing his mother's ashes.

The Highland Council has been shortlisted for four APSE Service Awards which celebrate excellence in local public services.

Two young brothers from Dunbeath have again shown their support for those in need by setting up a lemonade stall in aid of Caithness Foodbank.

A group that campaigns for fairer fuel prices says that drivers are being 'fleeced by the profiteering fuel supply chain and even their own Treasury'.

Musicians met in Caithness recently to play Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony – an event that had been postponed for two years due to the pandemic.

A bus company boss in Wick talked candidly about how his business almost went bust due to Covid but has now bounced back with a fleet of 15 buses.

The Highland Council is inviting communities to apply for a share of the 2022/23 allocation of the Nature Restoration Fund.

The Highland Council warmly welcomed this year’s new cohort of probationer teachers to the Highlands at Millburn Academy in Inverness.

Police said they are aware of inaccurate information circulating on social media related to an incident in Wick in the small hours on Sunday morning.

The annual game fair at Thrumster was back at the weekend and proved a great success for the organisers and public who attended.