Highland Council

School Street Zones aim to drastically reduce traffic around schools, providing cleaner air and safer streets.

The Highland Council is seeking local feedback on a public housing survey that will help it deliver new affordable housing and housing services.

The local authority was responding to the uncertainty triggered by strike action

At the Caithness Committee meeting yesterday members approved a winter maintenance plan for the area which includes priority gritting routes.

STRIKE action is set to hit bin collections and street cleaning across the Highlands, residents have been warned.

Members of Highland Council's Caithness committee will next week be asked to approve the lease of Bignold House to Wick Academy Football Club.

A Thurso restaurant owner has praised the sterling efforts of recycling workers who helped reunite him with a locket containing his mother's ashes.

'People are being empowered to take forward local priorities and projects and making a difference in their local areas,' says committee chair.

The Highland Council has been shortlisted for four APSE Service Awards which celebrate excellence in local public services.

Highland Council’s visitor management plan will see £115,000 invested in hand dryers as part of a wave of improvements at public toilets.

The Highland Council is inviting communities to apply for a share of the 2022/23 allocation of the Nature Restoration Fund.

The Highland Council warmly welcomed this year’s new cohort of probationer teachers to the Highlands at Millburn Academy in Inverness.

Many play parks in Caithness are in a state of disrepair, but the local authority is struggling to maintain them. Nicola Sinclair looks at the issues

The Scottish Government has placed a ban on all non-household biodegradable waste going to landfill from 2025.

Waste workers strike escalates as Unite announces second wave of council strike action the union today confirmed.

A major project near Dounreay is expected to take a big step forward in the coming weeks with a full application set to be submitted imminently.

Pupils in Wick and Thurso high schools have performed very well in their exam results which were released on Tuesday.

The process for choosing Wick's provost was called into question this week by the chairperson of the Royal Burgh of Wick Community Council.

A larger site close to the Dounreay and Vulcan sites will be needed as part of plans to develop a 100MW offshore wind farm off the Caithness coast.

Public urged to take part and express their views