Health

The plea has gone out to Highland residents who have CPR knowledge.

Residents closest to Dounreay and Vulcan are for the first time to be excluded from the emergency planning zone around the redundant nuclear sites.

A campaigner will tell a UN event about the financial impact felt by people from the far north who need to travel to Inverness for appointments.

NHS Highland’s Caithness Drug and Alcohol Recovery Services team is in line for a top prize at the annual Mental Health Nursing Forum Scotland Awards.

It proved another monster success by the shores of Loch Ness.

A 90-year-old retired vicar seems likely to beat Martin Harvey's record breaking Land's End to John O'Groats cycle run last year.

Community representatives in Thurso are continuing their dogged campaign to restore a local respite service for families

Far north MP Jamie Stone has said he is inspired by the selfless work of an award-winning Thurso woman who campaigns for victims of sexual violence.

Holyrood Notebook by Edward Mountain

Calls for better signage were sparked after waters at popular Highland beaches were found to have broken pollution limits five times this summer.

A Halkirk woman says she can help people turn their lives around with her new business called Charmed Life Therapy.

Scrabster resident John Sawkins highlights up and coming local events for the Scottish Mental Health and Arts Festival and how he got involved in it.

Analysis has exposed inefficiencies and challenges in the new health board-led delivery of vaccines across the Highlands.

An Inverness transplant patient shares his remarkable story of how organ donation saved his life.

Denchi Group staff based at Thurso can recharge their batteries thanks to a corporate deal allowing them discounted access to leisure facilities.

Holyrood Notebook by Maree Todd

The Three Harbours GP practice at Wick was delighted to receive the latest ECG unit funded by the Caithness Heart Support Group.

In the past year there have been 955 new users, which works out at around 80 new users a month.

The NHS Highland annual review returns to Inverness with a public invitation.

Lyth Arts Centre has announced its programme of events centred around the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival.