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A pressure group promoting the far north railway line held its AGM and conference in Wick at the Norseman Hotel on Friday, July 4.

Police in Thurso are hunting a man who carried out an assault watched by a companion with three dogs.

Pentland View care home added a bit of magic to residents’s lives recently by throwing a Mad Hatter’s Tea Party.

The deteriorating humanitarian situation in Gaza, including killings at food distribution sites, has been condemned by a Highland doctor.

The University of Highlands and Islands (UHI) has recorded it best ever performance in this year’s National Student Survey.

Crimestoppers Scotland is spotlighting how the charity can empower people to speak out against domestic violence.

Scottish Water is calling on people to behave responsibly around watercourses such as reservoirs, rivers, lochs and beaches this weekend.

The University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) has recorded its best-ever performance in the 2025 National Student Survey (NSS).

A sheriff showed a 90-year-old first offender sympathy by not banning him from driving.

Wick Academy have a “clear and obvious objective” – to surpass the tally of 36 points they picked up in each of the previous two campaigns.

Orkney photographer and travel writer Charles Tait will offer his unique perspective on the North Coast 500 at a John O’Groats Book Festival event.

A group of concerned Wick residents voiced their fears over plans for whisky warehouses to be sited near their homes.

A collaboration between Caithness CAB and Caithness Foodbank is helping to tackle poverty in the county by boosting awareness of unclaimed benefits.

Wick Academy’s final preparations for the 2025/26 Highland League campaign will involve three friendlies in eight days, all at Harmsworth Park.

Caithness Pony Club held its annual open show in Halkirk, welcoming Marion MacLennan and Katie Flo as the judges for the day.

An all-female team from Rolls-Royce at Vulcan visited the P7 class at Pennyland in Thurso during the week of International Women in Engineering Day.

A scheme providing hospital-level care for patients in their own homes has been hailed by Maree Todd as “a smart way to relieve pressure” on the NHS.

An Orkney woman who cheated an elderly man out of £14,000 has been fined £2500.

Co-manager Michael Bremner admitted a first-round tie against Wick Groats in the David Allan Shield seemed like “a free hit”, but Halkirk won 3-2.

A Wick man has been jailed for 20 months for a vicious attack on a drinking buddy which a sheriff described as "dreadful and unprovoked".