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A Wick business has helped local golf clubs prepare to reopen by gifting new "no touch" flag-lifting devices.

The Clap for Our Carers in Wick last night was noisier than previous Thursdays thanks to Seacat catamarans in the harbour blasting their sirens.

Creative young people in the Highlands and Islands are being invited to take part in a 48-hour virtual North Atlantic Corona Challenge next week.

A local man has come up with a novel idea to raise funds for Thurso Community Café – by putting his next hairstyle to the vote.

High Life Highland is looking forward to being able to reopen its facilities in line with Scotland's route map for emerging from the lockdown.

One new case of Covid-19 has been reported in the NHS Highland area, taking the total number of positive tests for the virus in the region to 335.

A man who terrified a woman and child he did not know by turning up at their door saying that she was going to die has been jailed for six months.

The Scottish SPCA is dealing with over eight times as many reports of baby birds as it was just one month ago.

Police in Caithness urge residents and businesses to be on their guard following recently reported phone frauds.

A mobile coronavirus testing unit manned by army personnel will be back in Thurso for two days at the start of next week.

Specially created children's rainbow biscuit baking kits to help the NHS have gone on sale at Tesco stores, including those in Wick and Thurso.

Preparations are well under way for many of the household waste recycling centres in the north to reopen to the public from June 1.

An optician chain with a branch in Wick has launched a new service for its older customers at home.

Preparations are being made for schools to return in August area following the publication of the Scottish Government’s route map out of lockdown.

Caithness residents are being warned against any complacency after a new map showed the county in a low-risk category for Covid-19 exposure.

No fresh cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in the NHS Highland area in the past 24 hours, figures from the Scottish Government have revealed.

Gail Ross has warned that "stay home, save lives" will remain the key message as Scotland moves towards the next stages of easing the lockdown.

The impact of coronavirus on Scotland’s transport services and the rural economy is to be investigated by MSPs.

A wildlife charity is asking people in Caithness to keep an eye out for a small but brightly-coloured butterfly, the small copper.

A distillery business has been kept busy supplying hand sanitiser for free distribution to the public in Caithness and north Sutherland.