STUDENTS walking the length of the country said they have been blown away by the kindness and generosity of people in Caithness. Twenty-one-year-olds…
CAITHNESS is not against the promotion of Gaelic in the Highlands.
A THURSO businessman has questioned how much trade the town centre gets from the arrival of cruise ships.
A YOUNG local boy who never had the opportunity to meet his uncle is raising money in his memory for charity.
COUNCIL leader Michael Foxley has welcomed an announcement by the UK Government to retain a 24/7 coastguard service in the Highlands and Islands.
ONE of the North’s leading engineering and fabrication service companies has signed a three-year deal to become the main sponsor of Wick Academy.
A CANCER survivor has committed to print her childhood memories of life on a croft in Caithness.
A CAITHNESS woman hit the headlines in the last-ever issue of the News of the World – for all the right ?reasons.
A THURSO councillor has blasted the Highland Council after the town’s service point was forced to close on Tuesday. Donald Mackay is furious the office…
DOUBT is being cast on the adequacy of the operation to recover rogue radioactive hot spots on the seabed off Dounreay.
I WAS in the middle of trying to unravel a mixed-up sentence I had just written when the phone rang. “Am I speak to Bruce Sandison?” I could hardly understand…
AS many parents whose children attend small primary schools may know, the SNP Government has recently established a commission on rural education on Scotland.…
ON a recent visit to Stroma, the birthplace of my maternal grandmother, Isabella Robertson, Sharon and I saw the remains of a very simple threshing machine.…
CONCENTRATION is what Wick Academy need to develop if they are to be a success in the Highland League this season.
TWO people with Caithness connections are now among the 12 board members of High Life Highland, the new arm’s-length organisation set up by the Highland…
A GOAL spree by Chris Sutherland is fuelling Castletown’s revival from a miserable start to their county campaign. The 22-year-old frontman bagged four…
LOCAL musicians dressed as cowboys, ghosts and superheroes took centre stage at the end of Wick’s Pipe Band Week on Saturday.
A YOUNG Caithness footballer has joined Scottish Premier League club Dundee United on a two-year deal.
POLICE are asking for information to help track down a man who has been missing from the Thurso area since Saturday, June 25.
A DOUNREAY worker is celebrating a £30,000 win with the People’s Postcode Lottery – just weeks after signing up to play.