Highland Council

Following Storm Floris, the Highland Council is encouraging landowners to check trees and vegetation near public roads, which may have been damaged.

Wick experienced some of its strongest recorded winds with Storm Floris hitting the town with hurricane-force 12 gusts of over 80mph.

A total of 11 Caithness community projects are to benefit, or have benefitted, from the support of council funds.

Proposals for a battery energy storage system (BESS) to be built within Forss Business and Technology Park come before councillors this week.

SQA exam results day for Highlanders show increase in National 5 and Higher pass rates.

A Battery Energy Storage System (BESS), accommodating 64 battery storage cabinets, could be built on a farmland site south of Thurso.

Huge disruption from Storm Floris is expected to continue today (Tuesday) with a massive clear-up underway across the Highlands and north of Scotland.

Members of Highland Council’s Caithness committee have agreed a winter maintenance plan which includes maps showing the priority gritting routes.

Councilors are being urged to refuse permission for a planning application seeking to pave the way for a new holiday park in Thurso.

Councillors are being advised not to object to a wind farm that could, ultimately, significantly expand a firm’s operations in the Moray Firth.

‘Looking ahead to the future, I do not want to miss any more of the precious early years of family life – which can never be rewound.’

Highland Council’s action to address sustainable tenancies in Caithness is beginning to bear fruit, writes MSP Rhoda Grant.

Eastern Airways was the butt of a joke at Wick’s recent gala parade, but for some travellers, the company’s poor performance is not quite so funny.

It is an area renowned for the excellence of its local produce, whether mouth-watering seafood or Highland beef, fine cheeses, oatcakes or ice cream.

But she insists she is unable to attend a meeting of MPs and MSPs in August.

But around 10 other local MPs and MSPs are expected in Inverness with some yet to confirm.

It all begins with a view already imprinted on the minds of every Invernessian and many beyond - the gently rising approach to the castle itself.

Highland councillor Matthew Reiss has warned about “serious hazards” for drivers caused by potholed sections of the North Coast 500 in Caithness.

Councillor Raymond Bremner says ‘new pupils to Thurso High School this year, may not see their high school education finish in the present building’.

A Thurso community advocate seeks volunteers to help clear the town’s boating pond this Sunday (July 20) at 11am.