Hear why Tanya White and Elle Campbell are taking part in this year’s Strictly Inverness to raise funds for Highland Hospice and Inverness Ice Centre.
Carly and Amanda from Chic are renting chairs in Aurora as they spoke about being ‘absolutely devastated to lose our livelihoods’.
Derek Brown told an Inverness Chamber of Commerce business breakfast ‘I think dissent is a healthy thing in an organisation’.
Inverness BID alerts businesses over changes to the Fisherman’s Hut car park, Castle Street, Academy Street, the Longman and others.
He says two years is ‘a very conservative estimate’ and it could have been much worse if not for Scottish Fire and Rescue Service.
Councillor Ken Gowans slams the ‘utterly disgraceful attack that has devastated not just businesses but the people behind them’.
The future investment in schools, housing and roads rides on the Highland Investment Plan.
Opposition plans for education reforms, free primary school meals and lower hikes in council tax were rejected.
Details of what specifically was proposed were scant while the Greens ‘hail influence’ on securing £500k investment.
But senior Highland Council official Malcolm Macleod insists the local authority’s ears are open on thorny questions like VAT.
The Liberal Democrats want to place an emphasis on attainment in schools amid flagging results for north youngsters.
Scotland reaches target for the first time as wellbeing minister and far north MSP Maree Todd hails ‘encouraging’ figures.
NHS Highland says it is routine to test for the Legionella bacteria in water contamination cases.
Council leader Raymond Bremner says the move sparked by ‘eye-watering’ £70m in unclaimed benefits.
A further £8m will be invested in renewable energy projects that have been touted for years.
Highland Council says 3000 more people could claim pension credits and therefore get winter fuel payments.
The idea is to create a sixth form college accessible online to all pupils in the Highlands to ramp-up learning and attainment.
Top councillors recognise ‘people are under severe financial pressure’ but say taxpayers will see their money’s worth
The £818m draft budget will be debated - and likely agreed - at a full meeting of the local authority next week.
Highland Council education bosses’ narrative claims ‘journey of improvement’ underway.