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The Just Transition Commission paid a visit to the UHI North, West and Hebrides campus this week.

A Pictish stone unearthed in Caithness nearly three years ago will go on display in Thurso from today after undergoing conservation work in Edinburgh.

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Talking about organ donation today can ease unimaginable decisions tomorrow.

As LibDem far north candidate David Green says 'it utterly stinks’ beautiful places like Dunnet Beach ‘are being blighted’.

In the ‘modest’ reshuffle First Minister John Swinney hands her one of the toughest briefs in the Scottish Government.

A driver accused of causing serious injury to a woman by driving his car dangerously on the outskirts of Thurso has had his jury trial postponed.

The health board confirms it was ‘not a cyber attack, and that no patient records were compromised’.

Witnesses saw officers from around eight police vehicles conduct a drugs raid at a former social security office in Wick on Wednesday evening.

Wick’s new banking hub is set to open its doors this Friday – a fortnight before the closure of the town’s last remaining bank branch.

A Caithness woman is to contest three charges of failing to properly care for 21 dogs and five cats for which she was allegedly responsible.

A Dunnet Community Forest project supporting the rare small blue butterfly is getting national attention this weekend on the BBC’s Countryfile show.

Some parents are being urged to show a greater understanding of the seating limitations at the festival when large numbers of children are competing.

But the health board say appointments are going ahead and ‘patient care is continuing safely across all our hospitals and services’.

MFR’s former Inverness base has been put up for sale after it vacated the building due to cutbacks.

A solicitor’s practice with offices in Wick and Thurso is heading south of the border to set up a base in the centre of London.

A two-year non harassment order has been meted out to an elderly Fife man preventing him from contacting his late son’s long-time partner.

Almost 30 local businesses have rallied round to give a much-needed financial boost to Wick Squash Club after it was faced with rising costs.

The man responsible for Castletown’s much-admired pitch has retired from his role as groundsman – 65 years after first volunteering at the club.

Wick High School has come down hard on the use of mobile phones in the classroom by prohibiting their use by pupils in the school and on its grounds.