Environment

An extreme wildfire risk is in place for the Highlands and Moray this week, as warmer, drier weather spreads in from the south.

Employers in the Highlands are being offered new funding to help make it more attractive for staff to walk, cycle or wheel to work.

Nine burnt-out cars have been dumped and left to rust in a popular Inverness green space.

Bird flu controls have been lifted in the Inverness area after an outbreak of the deadly disease last month.

Gas main engineers have dropped objections to a plan for a 50MW battery energy storage facility on the outskirts of Nairn.

A planned major hydro scheme using Loch Ness has taken a step forward with the developers submitting a planning application.

Ctrl-Alt-Dance is being held at Upstairs Inverness on Friday.

Police Scotland and RSPB Scotland are appealing for information after a male sparrowhawk was shot in Inverness.

A new drive-thru coffee shop in Inverness may have driven into a wall before it has even been built after transport officers objected to the plans.

At a lab on Inverness Campus, a group of ghillies from various sporting estates recently spent a day learning how to carry out post mortems on salmon.

A group of volunteers was hard at work to bring more colour to Nairn’s streets — with the help of local residents.

A surveillance zone for avian flu is still in place around Inverness after a case of the disease was confirmed in Daviot in March.

Leading rural organisations say muirburn licensing delays could risk exacerbating the growing threat of wildfires across Scotland.

Police hunting for selfish wild campers who sparked fury after hacking down trees, fly-tipping their gear and rubbish and ignoring wildfire warnings.

Action to tackle aggressive gulls in Inverness and elsewhere is “no further forward”, worried Highland MSPs fear after crunch meetings last week.

Wildlife watchers were in for a treat yesterday as a humpback whale was spotted swimming in the waters of the Beauly Firth.

Plummeting rare bird numbers at a Highland beauty spot have sparked plans for water activity restrictions during the breeding season.

An “extreme” wildfire risk for the Highlands has been extended into the weekend.

Glen Affric avoided a wildfire by “pure luck” after reckless campers hacked down trees, lit a campfire & left the beauty spot like a “disaster area”.

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