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Free Climate Springboard online programme is now available to tourism businesses across the Highlands & Islands

It’s long been suspected that Caithness is on the receiving end of some poor connectivity. Now research from Broadband Genie has backed up that idea.

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As Wick’s online oral history project launches a standalone website, a new recording highlights some of the hardships of the herring-fishing years.

Police have renewed an appeal to help trace a missing OAP with fresh details of his movements in the Highlands.

Local authority officials have pledged to "get to the bottom" of flash flooding problems which have plagued some shopkeepers in the centre of Thurso.

Gary Manson expects a "battle" when Wick Academy take on Strathspey Thistle, with the Scorries looking to move on from their Scottish Cup defeat.

The loss of the ferry service from John O'Groats would be "a great blow to the area", the chairman of the local community council has said.

A reluctance to relocate is contributing to "staffing challenges" at Dounreay for the armed police force in charge of protecting civil nuclear sites.

A coffee morning at Watten Village Hall in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support has so far raised £5834 with more money to be counted.

A strange haze over the sun in the Caithness skies today produced a weird effect connected to smoke from Canadian wildfires brought by Storm Agnes.

The voluntary group dedicated to preserving and promoting Thurso’s rich history is set for a fresh start after new volunteers stepped forward.

A drug dealer has admitted supplying cannabis on a ferry crossing between the mainland and Orkney.

CCTV images of a man have been released by Police Scotland in relation to the theft of money from an ATM in Alness on Wednesday, April 26.

Jago Ashwell (74) is known to have travelled by train from Inverness to Caithness on Monday.

Caithness has only one entry in the newly released Campaign for Real Ale’s (CAMRA) Good Beer Guide 2024 – the John O'Groats Brewery and Tap Room.

Community representatives in Thurso have welcomed the impending re-opening of a public convenience just off the town centre.

Fiddler Karen Steven is preparing for an October tour that will include appearances in Aberdeen and Inverness as well as Caithness and Sutherland.

Latheron Parish Ploughing Association and Caithness Vintage Tractor and Machinery Club will hold ploughing matches on successive weekends in October.

John Davidson explores the short walk to Caithness’s best-preserved Iron Age broch just north of the Ord