Last July, Boris Johnson paid a flying visit to Orkney – his first to Scotland since the General Election. He stood on a trawler in Stromness harbour, spoke to local fishermen and waved around some fine Orkney crab for the cameras.

The leader of Scotland’s newest political party has criticised footballer Marcus Rashford over his campaign to give free meals to children from poor families.

THE introduction of charges by local authorities has created "a middle-class culture of music education" with costs to families per year typically reaching over £700, a new study has revealed.

FAMILY doctors in Tayside will be vaccinating all over 65s against Covid in their own practices, Scotland's GP leader has said.

SCOTLAND'S nature preservation agency has raised concerns about the growth of fish farming and the risk to wild salmon as objections grow about how the aquaculture industry is dealing with a 'crisis' over on-site deaths.

Exactly one week after impeaching Donald Trump, America on Wednesday will inaugurate Joe Biden as its next president. As the Republican Party finds itself cast into a political wilderness, Foreign Editor David Pratt looks at where the GOP goes fro...

Anas Sarwar is running to succeed Richard Leonard as the next Scottish Labour leader.

THE goal of immunising 400,000 Scots a week against Covid could be derailed unless more is done to cut “ridiculous bureaucratic hold ups” that are leading some would-be vaccinators to quit, clinicians have warned.

WITH warnings it could die out as a community language within a decade, the precarious position of Gaelic in Scotland has come under the spotlight in recent months.

THE PRIVATE sector could be harnessed to relieve the pressure on over-stretched councils to stop struggling business facing delays in accessing lifeline pandemic funding, a leading official at Scotland's national economic development agency has wa...

JAMES Yorkston has returned with a new album, The Wide, Wide River. Speaking to The Herald Magazine, he talks of the album’s Swedish origins, the upcoming 20th anniversary of being signed to Domino Records and the difficulties he faced when he w...

IT’S a well-worn trope to suggest that children of sporting parents have some kind of natural advantage over their peers.

IT seems every week brings a new headline about the damage the pandemic is causing this country.

“I LOVE pop music, don’t get me wrong. I love a well-put-together pop song. But there’s a real beauty and excitement in exploring what’s going to happen when you just go into a room with someone and you don’t really know what anyone’s ...

At the side of roads, across scarred landscapes where heavy industry once pounded the earth and dreary corners bereft of plant life, a colourful revolution is about to stir.

Rent controls should be introduced in Scotland because "timid actions" to protect tenants are not working, the Scottish Greens have said.

Several performing arts venues around Scotland will share a £3 million fund to support them during the pandemic.

More than 5,000 health and social care staff are set to be vaccinated at NHS Louisa Jordan Hospital today as part of a mass vaccination drive by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.

There have been 1,753 new cases of Covid-19 reported in Scotland in the past 24 hours.

EVEN when the government of the day pursues an agenda inimical to your political beliefs there’s still an expectation of human decency.

A SCOTTISH parents group has demanded that Scotland's biggest teaching union withdraw "false" claim that it asked members to record teachers and students in online lessons.

By the beginning of March, everyone over 65 in Scotland and anyone considered "clinically extremely vulnerable" should have received (if they want it) their first dose of Covid vaccine.

A tiny kitten who was rescued by two walkers in the Highlands has sadly passed away.

Coronavirus infection rates in Scotland’s school-age population exploded at the end of last month and into 2021, with senior pupils most at risk.

A host of new Covid restrictions have come into force today in Scotland due to a rapidly spreading strain of Covid-19.

Saturday

ANAS Sarwar is expected to announce his bid to become the next leader of Scottish Labour after the party fixes a timetable for replacing Richard Leonard today.

ONCE upon a time I clambered up the back stairs into the Glasgow Herald on Mitchell Street.

UP to 40% of fish being landed at an auction in Denmark this year is from Scotland - as boats sail to the EU to sell their catch because of Brexit.

DOCTORS leaders have demanded ‘full transparency’ from health boards amid concern over the number of vaccines discarded after clinics were advised not to give boosters to NHS workers.