Environment

Highland Council has just released information on recycling arrangements for Caithness residents over the festive period.

Work will start on the Strathy South wind farm in spring next year, SSE has confirmed.

Caithness and Sutherland are on flood alert status, and a higher-level flood warning has been issued for Strath Oykel in Sutherland.

A group of volunteers have been helping to build new homes for wildlife in Caithness, with help from High Life Highland countryside rangers.

A Highland-made film aimed at inspiring people to tackle climate change has received international recognition in its first year since production.

There is a free screening of an immersive and visionary eco film by Caithness man Jim Sutherland at Lyth Arts Centre on Friday evening.

The radioactive contamination that has suspended work on a high voltage cable between Orkney and Caithness is being linked to wartime aircraft.

Weather Watch by Keith Banks

Northern Drift by Monique Sliedrecht

The owners of a 19th-century Caithness mill are holding a topping out ceremony to celebrate a renovation that is bringing new life to the building.

A Dunbeath-based publisher has an intriguing new book by the famous Nessie hunter Adrian Shine called ‘A Natural History of Sea Serpents’.

Work on part of the high voltage cable between Orkney and Caithness has been suspended because of the presence of radioactive contamination.

The world-leading MeyGen tidal energy site being developed in the Pentland Firth has reached full power for the first time.

53 award finalists from all over Scotland gathered at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre (EICC) on November 28.

Community and business representatives are reeling from Orbex’s shock decision to halt work on the spaceport it was developing in north Sutherland.

Consent has been granted by Scottish ministers for changes to a proposed wind farm near Lybster.

The spaceport was set to be built on land owned by Melness Crofters’ Estate on the A’Mhoine Peninsula.

A so-called ‘wild boar’ is on the loose in the Caithness countryside and appeared in the Bilbster area of the county today.

Highlands and Islands Enterprise said it was not yet clear of the impacts of Orbex’s decision on Sutherland.

An environmental group that cleans up Caithness beaches is delighted to make positive steps towards its eco goals with a new recycling initiative.