Environment

A Caithness schoolboy has criticised the reflective road studs that have been put into a stretch of the A9 near Latheron as 'unfit for purpose'.

The far north will benefit if the Flow Country of Caithness and Sutherland gains World Heritage status, an audience in Thurso heard.

Schoolchildren from across Caithness have been taking part in educational trips to RSPB Scotland’s Forsinard reserve.

The puffins who make their home at Dunnet Head during the summer made light of the very windy conditions at the weekend.

An area of the Dounreay nuclear site was evacuated after radioactive contamination was detected.

A Thurso based company is at the forefront of helping create a greener, cleaner and more efficient rail network.

The planned £17.3 million spaceport in the far north could bring investment and jobs to the area, according to a leading trade union.

THE owners of a stately home in Caithness have been helping restore the Flow Country while getting some added warmth at the same time.

Two university academics 'got a rocket' after claiming a far north spaceport would adversely affect the local economy and environment.

Plans for new Premier Inn hotel on the former mart site in Thurso are expected to be announced "in the very near future".

A Caithness businessman has been given planning permission for a scrapyard on the outskirts of Castletown – but only for five years.

UK shadow energy secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey has been invited to Caithness to get an insight into the potential for tidal stream energy

A young engineer working on the MeyGen tidal energy project in the Pentland Firth has won a top award.

A new seabed survey started this week in the Pentland Firth as part of the next stage of the MeyGen tidal energy project.

The John O'Groats Trail team have put up signs throughout Wick to highlight their walking route.

A small army of volunteers turned out this week to tidy up a neglected corner of Wick between the Service Bridge and the medical centre.

Get your cameras and binoculars at the ready as the orcas are on their way to the Caithness coastline.

The MeyGen tidal energy project will benefit from a partnership deal agreed by Simec Atlantis and General Electric.

Scotland is in danger of losing its "stunning landscapes" unless there is a halt to the number of wind turbines being built, a campaigner has warned.

Enormous swarms of fever-flies have hatched out in Caithness in their first officially recorded outing in the county.