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Near miss reported due to equipment failure at newly-reopened play park following £500k revamp

12 April 2025
Near miss reported due to equipment failure at newly-reopened play park following £500k revamp

Near miss reported due to equipment failure at newly-reopened play park following £500k revamp

12 April 2025

Checks are being carried out at a newly-revamped play park in Inverness after a reported near miss with a piece of equipment.


Open letter signed by community groups and trade unions calls for visitor levy to be used to tackle housing crisis

11 April 2025
Open letter signed by community groups and trade unions calls for visitor levy to be used to tackle housing crisis

Open letter signed by community groups and trade unions calls for visitor levy to be used to tackle housing crisis

11 April 2025

Groups and trade unions have joined forces to step up calls for a proposed tourist tax in the Highlands to be used to address the housing crisis.


Fire-hit retail units demolished as police inquiries continue

11 April 2025
Fire-hit retail units demolished as police inquiries continue

Fire-hit retail units demolished as police inquiries continue

11 April 2025

Demolition work has started on a row of shops destroyed in a massive blaze at an Inverness business park last month.


Extra £2.6m for National Treatment Centre Highland paves way for thousands more operations

10 April 2025
Extra £2.6m for National Treatment Centre Highland paves way for thousands more operations

Extra £2.6m for National Treatment Centre Highland paves way for thousands more operations

10 April 2025

Thousands more operations will be carried out at the National Treatment Centre (NTC) Highland thanks to extra funding of £2.6 million.


Controversial substation plan opposed unanimously at public meeting

10 April 2025
Controversial substation plan opposed unanimously at public meeting

Controversial substation plan opposed unanimously at public meeting

10 April 2025

Alarmed residents in a community near Beauly turned out in force to demonstrate their opposition to controversial plans for a major substation.


Controversial plans for visitor levy prompt 4000 ‘very mixed’ responses during consultation

08 April 2025
Controversial plans for visitor levy prompt 4000 ‘very mixed’ responses during consultation

Controversial plans for visitor levy prompt 4000 ‘very mixed’ responses during consultation

08 April 2025

About 4000 “very mixed” responses were received during the public consultation on the possible introduction of a visitor levy for the Highlands.


New £17m hub will bolster resilience of electricity transmission network, says energy company

08 April 2025
New £17m hub will bolster resilience of electricity transmission network, says energy company

New £17m hub will bolster resilience of electricity transmission network, says energy company

08 April 2025

A £17m hub set to bolster the efficiency of the north of Scotland's electricity transmission network has opened at Inverness Airport Business Park.


Reindeer herders issue plea to drone users after herd ‘spooked’

08 April 2025
Reindeer herders issue plea to drone users after herd ‘spooked’

Reindeer herders issue plea to drone users after herd ‘spooked’

08 April 2025

Reindeer herders in the Cairngorms have issued a plea to drone users after the herd was spooked by a machine flying overhead.


Police appeal for information following death of cyclist

08 April 2025
Police appeal for information following death of cyclist

Police appeal for information following death of cyclist

08 April 2025

Police are appealing for information following the death of a cyclist on a single-track road near Nairn.


Asbestos survey of 281 council buildings after notice served by Health and Safety Executive

08 April 2025
Asbestos survey of 281 council buildings after notice served by Health and Safety Executive

Asbestos survey of 281 council buildings after notice served by Health and Safety Executive

08 April 2025

Highland Council will conduct an asbestos survey of 28l communal buildings after being served a notice by the Health and Safety Executive.


Contract for major electricity network projects around Inverness and Highlands awarded to Freedom

07 April 2025
Contract for major electricity network projects around Inverness and Highlands awarded to Freedom

Contract for major electricity network projects around Inverness and Highlands awarded to Freedom

07 April 2025

Electricity network projects worth £55 million in the Inverness and Highlands area will be carried out by the Freedom Group.


Ukraine-bound aid from Highlands will make huge difference, says solicitor in war zone

06 April 2025
Ukraine-bound aid from Highlands will make huge difference, says solicitor in war zone

Ukraine-bound aid from Highlands will make huge difference, says solicitor in war zone

06 April 2025

A solicitor in Ukraine has outlined how aid from the Highlands will make a huge difference as Russia ramps up its attacks on her homeland.


Ceremony in Inverness will reflect on lives lost at work

05 April 2025
Ceremony in Inverness will reflect on lives lost at work

Ceremony in Inverness will reflect on lives lost at work

05 April 2025

Workers who have died at work or from work-related injury and diseases will be remembered at a ceremony in Inverness later this month.


‘Roads will become unbearable’ - residents voice fears over substation project

05 April 2025
‘Roads will become unbearable’ - residents voice fears over substation project

‘Roads will become unbearable’ - residents voice fears over substation project

05 April 2025

Horrified residents in Highland communities are to hold a public meeting to discuss controversial plans for a major substation.


Battle of Culloden anniversary commemoration to include talks on Jacobite uprising

04 April 2025
Battle of Culloden anniversary commemoration to include talks on Jacobite uprising

Battle of Culloden anniversary commemoration to include talks on Jacobite uprising

04 April 2025

An insight into the Jacobite uprising using eyewitness testimony will be among the events to mark the anniversary of the Battle of Culloden.


‘This was our home but it doesn’t feel like our home any more’ - residents say short term let properties are having a negative impact

03 April 2025
‘This was our home but it doesn’t feel like our home any more’ - residents say short term let properties are having a negative impact

‘This was our home but it doesn’t feel like our home any more’ - residents say short term let properties are having a negative impact

03 April 2025

Retired NHS worker Jacky Kirby has lived in her first-floor apartment in Old Edinburgh Court in Inverness for the past 11 years.


Delay to beaver project in Glen Affric shows ‘mystifying lack of backbone’, says rewilding charity

03 April 2025
Delay to beaver project in Glen Affric shows ‘mystifying lack of backbone’, says rewilding charity

Delay to beaver project in Glen Affric shows ‘mystifying lack of backbone’, says rewilding charity

03 April 2025

A rewilding charity has accused a Scottish Government agency of a “mystifying lack of backbone” after delaying a decision on a beaver release project.


Bakery celebrates opening of new shop one month after blaze destroyed another store

03 April 2025
Bakery celebrates opening of new shop one month after blaze destroyed another store

Bakery celebrates opening of new shop one month after blaze destroyed another store

03 April 2025

Award-winning bakery chain, Harry Gow, has celebrated the opening of a new store in Inverness.


Watch: ‘People are still going to come to the Highlands’ - campaigners say a tourist tax could help tackle housing crisis

02 April 2025
Watch: ‘People are still going to come to the Highlands’ - campaigners say a tourist tax could help tackle housing crisis

Watch: ‘People are still going to come to the Highlands’ - campaigners say a tourist tax could help tackle housing crisis

02 April 2025

A Highland tourist tax will not stop visitors coming to the region, say campaigners calling for some of it to be used to address the housing crisis.


Film industry spend in Highlands rises to more than £3.5m

01 April 2025
Film industry spend in Highlands rises to more than £3.5m

Film industry spend in Highlands rises to more than £3.5m

01 April 2025

Productions such as The Traitors pushed direct spending by the film industry in the Highlands to more than £3.5million in 2024 - its highest level.


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