Conditions were pleasant for Caithness Cycling Club’s final 10-mile time trial but a strong headwind on the outward leg made fast times unlikely.
As the Parliament goes back after the summer recess, I look forward to raising the issues that affect Caithness and the Highlands and Islands.
The SNP MSP for Caithness, Sutherland and Ross, Maree Todd, highlighted how the importance of free prescriptions during the cost of living crisis.
Two pairs started Wick Wheelers’ “2 Up” time trial where a team of two ride together sharing the workload at the front of the pair.
A new initiative encouraging Noss pupils to cycle to school has taken off in a big way, with 34 children and six adults taking part in week two.
Scottish singing star Callum Beattie has hailed Tunes By the Dunes as “a beautiful festival, in a beautiful place, run by beautiful people”.
Several campsites across the Highlands have said a new scheme set out by the local authority ‘will not support their businesses’.
A local engineering firm is investing in new technology that will help increase business turnover and productivity while cutting carbon emissions.
The highest hill in Caithness is now well used, but not everybody approaches it in the same way
He says the council can’t ‘carve up the city centre like this and expect everyone else to swallow it without proper consultation’.
Raymond Bremner has been assured that there has been no change to the policy of allowing cars into Wick cemetery for people with limited mobility.
The former head of IT at Dounreay has been spared jail for sending sexual online messages to girls he believed were as young as 12.
Dounreay Fly Fishing Association held the penultimate event of the 2024 season when 10 members made the climb up to lochs Seilge and Caorach.
Banniskirk House is set in grounds extending to some 22 acres near Halkirk and is said to be in need of refurbishment and modernisation.
Moves are under way to replace ageing High-Speed Trains fleet operating on InterCity routes between Inverness, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen.
Roadworks lasting up to three weeks are due to get under way at the start of next week at the busy A9/A836 Toll junction in Thurso.
Energy firm SAE says it has secured support to deliver more capacity at the MeyGen project.
Scottish singing star Callum Beattie spoke about the therapeutic value of music when he visited a mental health charity in Caithness at the weekend.
There was a great turnout of 76 runners for the Caithness Half Marathon, starting and finishing in Watten, in conditions that were warm but windy.
Chief Superintendent Robert Shepherd says it is intended to create a ‘hostile’ environment for groups from Birmingham, Derby, Liverpool and London.