A ROADSHOW in Caithness Horizons on Monday (September 12) will launch the new-look craftscotland website which provides a revamped platform for Scottish…
I AM into ganseys in a big way. Nearly every day I wear one, and a more comfortable, practical garment is hard to think of. Getting into ganseys – to…
EACH week I am meeting local business people and community activists who share with me and my party a positive vision for Caithness and north Sutherland…
A WICK woman has given up her career in the science industry to start her own chocolate business. After working for STEM North of Scotland promoting science,…
A VIDEO from the RNLI shows Thurso and Longhope RNLI lifeboats responding to a distress call from the fishing vessel Golden Promise on September 7.
BULLDOZERS yesterday moved in to start the long-awaited transformation of John O’Groats.
CAITHNESS 21- 15 GLENROTHES IT would be folly to base prospects for a season on an opening league match. This one was infused with a liberal quota of…
CAITHNESS coach Donald MacIntosh was happy enough to chalk up a first competitive victory under his watch in Saturday’s opening RBS Caley one league match.…
NHS dental waiting lists will be a thing of the past by the end of this year, according to the head of a new dental practice.
THE next generation of Dounreay apprentices have started their four-year training to become the site’s new decommissioners.
CONCERN over recent riots in English cities is fading fast from front pages. That is the way it is with newspaper stories, here today and gone tomorrow.…
A HASTER woman whose grandson, Kyle McKay, suffered a brain injury two years ago, has raised £1000 for a recently formed Caithness support group.
AFTER the deluge of August the brief drying winds of early September have at last allowed the combines into the barley and corn parks of Caithness.
A KIRK representative in Wick has joined in tributes to a popular Highland minister who died after a short illness.
FOR the first time in many years the presence of a queen lent a regal air to proceedings at the Marymas Fair in Dunnet on Saturday. As the sun came…
AT Whitehall we had a fanners in the loft – hand-powered – every farm had one. Some farms had two and were used to clean up grain for selling or for seed.…
PEOPLE gathered in Wick at the weekend to mark the unveiling of a memorial to the men lost during a wartime tragedy.
THE family of a Wick man who was a victim of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in America spoke of their loss yesterday as the 10th anniversary of the atrocity…
A CAITHNESS police chief said that statistics showing the number of incidents reported to officers do not indicate that Wick is “in the grip of a crime…
THE SNP group on the Highland Council has sought assurances over the authority’s preparations for winter maintenance.