IT was beginning to look a lot like Christmas in Wick at the weekend as merrymakers made their way to the annual festive bazaar in the Assembly Rooms.
Colleagues gathered to mark the retirement of staff nurse Marilyn Durrand who has worked for the NHS in Wick for 42 years. She worked at the Rosebank…
Landward councillor Willie Mackay has given his backing to a four-month police initiative to target motorists in the vicinity of all 29 secondary schools.
THE life of a teenager which was taken away after a car accident was remembered when hundreds of balloons floated above Wick on what would have been his…
NORTHERN Constabulary are promoting bicycle security in the run up to Christmas.
TWO far north ferry crossings have been cancelled tomorrow.
POLICE have vowed to use all means at their disposal to track down those who drink and drive this festive season.
DUNBEATH youngsters will start a new legacy in the county next week when they plant the first trees of a new wood.
NHS Highland is to assume responsibility for the Riverbank medical practice in Thurso later this month.
NORTHERN Constabulary is targeting speeding motorists in the vicinity of every secondary school within the Highlands.
ORMLIE Community Association will celebrate its tenth anniversary of festive celebrations when it holds its annual Christmas lights tree switch-on Thursday.
A frozen pitch has given the slip to Wick Academy returning to form and top of the Highland League.
CHRISTMAS came early for pensioners across the county when a record amount of shoeboxes were collected for vulnerable people during the festive season.
CHARITABLE donations to hospitals, wards and departments within NHS Highland in the past year have totalled more than £500,000.
COCAINE possession cost a Wick electrician £400 at Wick Sheriff Court on Friday.
A NUMBER of weapons and ammunition have been seized from a registered firearms dealer’s premises in Wick.
ANGRY residents in Lybster are claiming theirs is among a number of Caithness villages being ignored by gritters when icy conditions prove treacherous…
THE "evil" welfare reforms on the horizon will leave people in the Highlands an estimated £1.5 million a year worse off – amid a grim warning…
In the first of a new monthly feature we are running in association with the Highlands and Islands Federation of Small Businesses, we turn the spotlight…
The Caithness firm undertook the project for the Ignalina power station in Lithuania which closed down three years ago and was the last operational station…