TRIBUTE has been paid to 13 Highland councillors who are retiring from local government next month. At the end of the final meeting of this five-year…
Wick Academy clinched a win over visitors Turriff United today after a hardfought game. The Scorries had the most chances in the first half with Davie…
A NEW garden centre opens in Caithness today (Saturday) at the site of a former eyesore. Father-and-son team Glyn and Benjamin Salisbury have transformed…
PUNTERS in Caithness will be hoping their horse will be first past the post as thousands of bets are placed on today’s Grand National.
A LOCAL charity support group for people with multiple sclerosis is holding an open event in Wick on Saturday. MS People Caithness was launched last…
FOUR female artists from Caithness have banded together to hold an exhibition to raise money for local charities. The local art collective – known…
A THURSO man could be banned from travelling to or from football matches. That possibility emerged after Graham Smith (28), of Strathy House, admitted…
A WELL-known country and bluegrass singer is performing in Wick tonight to help raise funds for a local hospital wing. Orkney-born Michael Harcus will…
LOCAL photographer John Baikie is celebrating after scooping a major national title at the Scottish Master Photographers Association awards. The event,…
THE 15-a-side season may be over but Caithness are looking forward to enjoying a run in the abbreviated format of the game.
A FUNDRAISING event in memory of a young Caithness teacher who died earlier this year is expected to generate in excess of £8000 for Cancer Research UK.…
A RENEWABLE energy developer is claiming a plan to erect four new turbines near its wind farm in Caithness would affect its productivity.
HALKIRK United are hungry for further honours as they prepare for the first of the last two cup finals in the North Caley season.
POWER from the Pentland Firth could be used for a research and development project to look at ways of using algae to produce biodiesel. That was said…
WICK Academy claimed the bragging rights in the North derby this season when they smashed six past a despairing Brora Rangers on Tuesday night in front…
Sir – At the risk of giving the independent candidates the “oxygen of publicity” I feel I really must respond to what is clearly an attack on my good…
?DUNDEE United footballer Gary Mackay-Steven, who comes from Thurso, has won the Scottish Premier League’s young-player-of-the-month award for the second…
THE death of a Skerray man who lost his life in the Titanic disaster was predicted days before the tragedy, it has emerged.
A YOUNG Thurso man was among the 1500 passengers and crew who lost their lives when the Titanic sank.
THE Thurso cast of a Shakespeare-inspired play are hoping it can make as much of an impact on the national stage as it has already made in the Highlands.…