HIGHLAND Council planners have been accused of trying to slip small-scale wind farms under the radar in an effort to meet Scottish Government targets…
Thurso Gers are seen here in their new strip and team jackets which were gifted to them by club sponsor Robbie Fraser. Robbie’s nephew Dougie Fraser…
Mary Lyall, of ‘Swinton’, George Street, Halkirk, submitted this photo of Thurso West Church young women’s group taken in April 1975.…
While the racing surface was damp but fast, the biting cold day made it less comfortable for the parents and spectators.
Crofters, in particular, made use of many odd bits and pieces, getting over their priceless poverty in their own ways. Apart from the ubiquitous dry-stone…
This misery had been caused by the stagnation of the position of this large amplification of the polar-front jet stream that subsequently, by virtue of…
A ROYAL Navy sailor from Wick has told of his recent experiences with a NATO task group in the Black Sea and Mediterranean.
They left at 12.30 on Friday lunchtime to catch the evening ferry across the Minch to Lewis.
UP to three inches of rain is set to fall in the space of 24 hours in Caithness as the Met Office issued a severe weather warning for the area.
A MAN was taken to hospital after suffering a superficial wound as a result of an assault which took place in Wick on Tuesday night.
Michael Beales, of Thurso Road, Wick, snapped this photo of Ackergill harbour at night.
New Courier columnist Alison Karlene Hodgins celebrates the natural and manmade attractions she has found since arriving in Caithness three weeks ago…
SCOTTISH artist Kenny Hunter is preparing to launch his largest and most challenging public art work yet in Borgie Forest, near Bettyhill.
CASTLETOWN postie Graeme Geddes admits he likes a challenge... and he has certainly lived up to that. Over the past few years, his desire to push himself…
WATTEN SWRI recently celebrated its 80th birthday.
A SUPERHERO effort from a group of young kids with their mothers acting as their sidekicks helped raised a three figure sum for vulnerable children across…
WE motorcycled down to Loopallu in a Ford Focus.
THE family of local teenage road accident victim Connor Craigie has handed over the proceeds of the second annual football tourney held in his memory.
AUTUMN approaches, though summer never truly arrived. This morning the first group of whooper swans came powering southward, having flown overnight from…