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It has been announced today that the controversial Deposit Return Scheme will be delayed until at least October 2025.

Around 2500 children will be taking part in this week's Caithness Music Festival at the Assembly Rooms in Wick, including many from north Sutherland.

PARTS of the Highlands will be at extreme or very high risk of wildfires this week as a new warning is issued.

Store was closed for five weeks

A Caithness seafood company has been fined £80,000 after a fisherman drowned when his leg was caught in a rope and he was pulled overboard.

Ron Gunn said it was a privilege to mark the dedication and commitment of four ex-firefighters who clocked up 106 years of service between them.

Mary Abercrombie and Helen Scott completed their trip on Saturday

A series of community projects around Caithness and Sutherland are counting themselves lucky after winning funding awards through the National Lottery

A HIGHLAND climate initiative is calling for people to share their personal experience on the impact of wildfires on the region's communities.

Holyrood Notebook by Rhoda Grant

A range of old vehicles dated from 1913 onwards will be on show at a popular annual rally this weekend.

The Scottish Government has been accused by a Caithness businessman of constantly moving the goalposts over its controversial deposit return scheme.

A local festival celebrating links with Scandinavia and Canada played an important part in the success of Year of Stories 2022, a report has found.

A VITAL employment scheme which has helped thousands of young Highlanders into work but which had been under threat has been saved after a u-turn.

Organisers of the Caithness Music Festival have paid tribute to the team of willing helpers who make sure the much-loved event runs smoothly.

Hannah Rosie has been dancing since she was three years old

Office-bearers re-elected at AGM

Lorna Slater told Holyrood ‘we are urgently establishing to what extent there is a way forward for a modified scheme.’

The Sutherland and Caithness Provincial Mod was held at Bettyhill last Saturday.

An Inverness teenager is running the Cape Wrath Trail this week in memory of her little brother – and to raise vital funding for cancer research.