Environment

Dorcas Sinclair from Caithness Beach Cleans has been nominated for an Amazing Woman award and recently unearthed a cache of old sauce bottles.

A public event held at the Assembly Rooms gave Wickers a vision for the future of the town.

Securing World Heritage Site status for the Flow Country will continue to be a priority for Scottish Natural Heritage in 2020.

Whittles Publishing based in Dunbeath has a fascinating book out that explains the meaning of many Gaelic place names we find in the countryside.

A Thurso man selflessly grits the pavements of his home town to keep them clear over the winter and urges others to lend a hand.

Syringes found among massive eight-ton haul by Caithness Beach Cleaners group.

A funding package worth in excess of £650,000 is in place to help in the regeneration of Wick town centre, councillors have told key stakeholders.

Local countryside rangers have been working with children and families making Christmas decorations and crafts from natural or recycled materials.

Wick's Newtonhill Community Woodland was turned into a bird box workshop last Sunday as Caithness Countryside Volunteers got down to work.

Pupils from Lybster Primary School teamed up with local RSPB Scotland staff and volunteers to help in the restoration of the Flow Country.

A radioactive emission at Dounreay in February "contravened multiple conditions" of its radioactive substances authorisation, it has emerged.

The recent death of a sperm whale on the west coast was foremost in the minds of two Caithness beach cleaners who tackled a mass of rope at Dunnet.

INVERNESS will be bracing itself after it was predicted the area could be hit by a colossal weather bomb with a foot of snow forecast within days.

A north Sutherland wildfire could have released carbon into the atmosphere equivalent to six days’ worth of Scotland’s total greenhouse gas emissions.

A huge pot of funding has been secured towards the conservation of Ousdale Broch – a drystone tower which may have been home to an Iron Age chieftain.

Issues with roads, bus services and air travel were among those highlighted by Caithness councillors at a meeting in Inverness.

A full revamp of Wick's riverside car park has been given the green light after a successful funding bid was announced today.

Wick's own version of Indiana Jones is leading jungle tours with a difference.

A series of pictures captures the moment a young seal slips out of sight underwater away from the lens of the Groat reporter.

Advice for communities interested in accessing wind farm funds will be available at special sessions on Thursday.