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Scottish Household Survey returns profoundly mixed results on Highland Council

03 February 2025
Scottish Household Survey returns profoundly mixed results on Highland Council

Scottish Household Survey returns profoundly mixed results on Highland Council

03 February 2025

Improving marks still fail to top 50% of people approving of the local authority’s job performance.


Highland Council caves in over gull management as it’s understood partners threatened to walk away

03 February 2025
Highland Council caves in over gull management as it’s understood partners threatened to walk away

Highland Council caves in over gull management as it’s understood partners threatened to walk away

03 February 2025

The move saw the local authority totally reverse its position on funding in the space of a lunch hour.


Councillor says ‘we are at the mercy of NatureScot’ over gull management

03 February 2025
Councillor says ‘we are at the mercy of NatureScot’ over gull management

Councillor says ‘we are at the mercy of NatureScot’ over gull management

03 February 2025

Councillor Michael Gregson says as they ‘have been a menace’ and while it is ‘essential that an effective action plan is put in place’.


New Inverness music festival plans at the Northern Meeting Park tabled

03 February 2025
New Inverness music festival plans at the Northern Meeting Park tabled

New Inverness music festival plans at the Northern Meeting Park tabled

03 February 2025

The move for ‘an exciting opportunity for something new in the Highlands’ is subject to funding.


WATCH: Culloden vandalism sparks appeal after wooden footbridge torched and trees chopped down

02 February 2025
WATCH: Culloden vandalism sparks appeal after wooden footbridge torched and trees chopped down

WATCH: Culloden vandalism sparks appeal after wooden footbridge torched and trees chopped down

02 February 2025

Culloden Community Council says Cullwoods ‘has been suffering with repeated vandalism which is hampering the owners efforts to try and restore it’


SSE’s Great Glen ‘hydro cascade’ continues with Loch Fearna pumped storage hydro scheme

02 February 2025
SSE’s Great Glen ‘hydro cascade’ continues with Loch Fearna pumped storage hydro scheme

SSE’s Great Glen ‘hydro cascade’ continues with Loch Fearna pumped storage hydro scheme

02 February 2025

The project aims to build two dams to hold 40 million cubic litres of water with a move forward on planning application.


Highland Council issues Whin Park reopening date after £500k upgrade work finally begins

02 February 2025
Highland Council issues Whin Park reopening date after £500k upgrade work finally begins

Highland Council issues Whin Park reopening date after £500k upgrade work finally begins

02 February 2025

Highland Council is targeting a completion date of Easter after issuing artist’s impressions of the new equipment.


Police launch appeal to trace 55-year-old Dawn Robinson reported missing in Inverness

02 February 2025
Police launch appeal to trace 55-year-old Dawn Robinson reported missing in Inverness

Police launch appeal to trace 55-year-old Dawn Robinson reported missing in Inverness

02 February 2025

She was last seen around 8.25am on Saturday February 1 in the Academy Street area of the city.


Major Longman landfill site, Foyers power station and Invergarry worker accommodation developments in the pipeline

02 February 2025
Major Longman landfill site, Foyers power station and Invergarry worker accommodation developments in the pipeline

Major Longman landfill site, Foyers power station and Invergarry worker accommodation developments in the pipeline

02 February 2025

Formal launch of the planning permission process for a trio of Great Glen developments.


Road users report 10+ minute delays on A9 at Moy roadworks with more works at Carrbridge

02 February 2025
Road users report 10+ minute delays on A9 at Moy roadworks with more works at Carrbridge

Road users report 10+ minute delays on A9 at Moy roadworks with more works at Carrbridge

02 February 2025

Lanes at those locations are ‘restricted in both directions due to continuous essential roadworks’.


Alness company Pat Munro Ltd plans quarry for Farr just south of Inverness

02 February 2025
Alness company Pat Munro Ltd plans quarry for Farr just south of Inverness

Alness company Pat Munro Ltd plans quarry for Farr just south of Inverness

02 February 2025

The business hopes to extract 50,000 tonnes of sand and gravel a year over a 15 year period.


Top Highland Council bosses pay to tally more than £2.1 million annually

01 February 2025
Top Highland Council bosses pay to tally more than £2.1 million annually

Top Highland Council bosses pay to tally more than £2.1 million annually

01 February 2025

The 18 member team includes the chief executive, three assistant chief executives and 14 chief officers.


Incidents at the Church Street Wetherspoon’s in Inverness spark move for more CCTV to help police

01 February 2025
Incidents at the Church Street Wetherspoon’s in Inverness spark move for more CCTV to help police

Incidents at the Church Street Wetherspoon’s in Inverness spark move for more CCTV to help police

01 February 2025

Drug taking and anti-social behaviour on School Lane and in burial grounds are also cited as reasons.


Inverness gull management on the block for a second year running

31 January 2025
Inverness gull management on the block for a second year running

Inverness gull management on the block for a second year running

31 January 2025

Four councillors block egg and nest removal, preferring a ‘do not feed the gulls’ campaign - final decision due on Monday.


Highland Council agrees 8% rent hike amid tenants concerns about ‘affordability’

29 January 2025
Highland Council agrees 8% rent hike amid tenants concerns about ‘affordability’

Highland Council agrees 8% rent hike amid tenants concerns about ‘affordability’

29 January 2025

The ‘significant burden’ of loan charges consumes 43% of the budget while 31% goes on repairs and maintenance.


NHS Highland PR boss joins Highland Council’s £1.7 million management team

29 January 2025
NHS Highland PR boss joins Highland Council’s £1.7 million management team

NHS Highland PR boss joins Highland Council’s £1.7 million management team

29 January 2025

Ruth Fry takes up £109k chief officer job while Paul Reid takes on fleet and facilities


Giving blood was totally easy and painless, says reporter Scott MacLennan

28 January 2025
Giving blood was totally easy and painless, says reporter Scott MacLennan

Giving blood was totally easy and painless, says reporter Scott MacLennan

28 January 2025

He says ‘there were zero unpleasant side effects beyond, perhaps, my evening whisky carrying a little more potency than normal’.


Tenants’ Union backs for Highland Council visitor levy but demands some cash for the housing crisis

28 January 2025
Tenants’ Union backs for Highland Council visitor levy but demands some cash for the housing crisis

Tenants’ Union backs for Highland Council visitor levy but demands some cash for the housing crisis

28 January 2025

The group Living Rent says ‘addressing housing inequality takes priority over expanding an already booming tourist sector’.


Visitor levy spat sees Lib Dem Andrew Baxter tell unnamed SNP councillor to ‘go back to school’

28 January 2025
Visitor levy spat sees Lib Dem Andrew Baxter tell unnamed SNP councillor to ‘go back to school’

Visitor levy spat sees Lib Dem Andrew Baxter tell unnamed SNP councillor to ‘go back to school’

28 January 2025

It comes amid misinformation claims that the law compels its introduction when it does not.


Britannia parking’s debt collectors demand £170 from pensioner who never received a ticket

28 January 2025
Britannia parking’s debt collectors demand £170 from pensioner who never received a ticket

Britannia parking’s debt collectors demand £170 from pensioner who never received a ticket

28 January 2025

The ‘cowboy style’ operation was slammed as a Highland Councillor suspects that the ‘business model relies upon this income’.


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