Politics

BBC Scotland have announced their line-up for Debate Night in Inverness, with Alan Savage, Fergus Ewing and Lesley Riddoch set to feature.

Ten years ago John Swinney advised me that we as a government must never be defeated in court actions, because it would damage our reputation.

Scottish Government is slammed for leaving ‘frontline NHS staff dangerously overstretched and more prone to making mistakes’.

The man says he is “tired of having my rights discussed over the radio”.

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

This feat of engineering involved the construction of a pole across a road, not the completion of a stretch of dualled motorway, says our columnist.

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

The campaign for a vital railway project that could sharply improve train reliability on the Far North Line has won the backing of a Holyrood hopeful.

A unanimous decision was reached to define ‘woman’ and ‘sex’ in the legislation as biological sex.

A trans Highland councillor is in the running to replace Fergus Ewing as the SNP’s candidate for next year’s Holyrood election.

Inverness MP Angus MacDonald recalls taking ambulances to war-torn Ukraine.

President Trump’s recent Executive Order creates worldwide stooshie.

“Listen to the hospitality trade” over the planned tourist tax, a Highland councillor has urged.

Fergus Ewing has been fiercely critical of the SNP government's delay and bungling in their failure to achieve targets for upgrading the A9.

BBC Scotland is bringing its flagship political debate show to Inverness this month.

Liberal Democrat leaders Alex Cole-Hamilton and Ed Davey both sign The Inverness Courier’s Pledge to finish the dualling project.

The visit came on the back of a sobering report outlining a care home sector ‘teetering on the brink of crisis’.

The challenger for 2026 believes the seat is competitive ‘because my opponent is very much part of the problem’.

Leader Alex Cole-Hamilton says ‘People in the Highlands know we are best placed to beat the SNP’.

But the stats draw a blank on assaults of teachers or pupils and drugs or weapons.