Politics

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.

Highland and Moray MPs are urging Westminster to scrap plans to grant GI status to English whisky as they fear it will hit Scotch whisky’s reputation.

A Highland MSP has announced he will not be standing for re-election, saying that party political disputes are “holding Scotland back”.

Protections from illegal eviction, rent increases and maintenance to the fore.

Councillor Michael Gregson warns when ‘Highland figures are so poor’ then ‘we need more transparency and openness’.

Frustrated rail passengers transferring trains in Inverness will soon enjoy a more hassle-free experience, in a move championed by a local MSP.

Campaigners’ efforts to accelerate work to boost digital connectivity in the Highlands have won support from a Holyrood committee.

‘Shambolic’ Raigmore Hospital staff shortages left a man traumatised after waiting two months for urgent surgery to tackle a life-and-death condition.

There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth across the Highlands next month, when the Highland Council sets the council tax increase from April.

The local authority admits that it ‘has an impact on service delivery including at school level’.

A young Nairn Labour party member is the first winner of an award in memory of a Scottish Labour stalwart.

That’s the fear after Police Scotland’s chief warned the force will need to review officer recruitment to meet rising National Insurance costs.

The SNP MP says ‘people who can see excess energy being generated from their gardens should not be paying more to heat their homes’.

LibDem MP warns costs are fuelling the Highlands having the second highest fuel poverty rate in the UK.

MP Angus MacDonald hails ‘very positive step’ as Labour energy minister Michael Shanks says region is ‘doing a favour for the rest of the country’.

A petition urging the government to publish a timeline for works on the A96 dualling between Inverness and Nairn will be heard in parliament.

People in the Highlands and Moray are being encouraged to respond to a public consultation on the dualling for the A96 before it closes this week.

The MP for Nairnshire has called for essential support to the Scotch whisky industry at Westminster earlier this week.

So is the party about to shoot itself in the foot and make Inverness and Nairn competitive over the outspoken Highland MSP?