OVER 200 people experiencing homelessness died in 2019 - a rise of 11% in a year.

Scotland's National Clinical Director has said that holidays in the UK "will be possible" this year but warned against international travel.

OFFSHORING our carbon footprint in the midst of a climate emergency is the last thing Scotland wants to be doing, so it is time to start thinking more wisely about our food choices.

The Met Office has placed yellow and amber warnings of heavy wind and rain across mainland Scotland.

The latest coronavirus numbers as Nicola Sturgeon prepares to reveal Scotland's path out of lockdown.

WHEN Frank Sinatra and Celeste Holm, well before Chris Tarrant or Jeremy Clarkson, asked Cole Porter’s question, “Who wants to be a millionaire?”, the point of the song was to pretend that being rich wasn’t all that much cop. It gains its ...

A relative of the Queen who admitted sexually assaulting a woman at his ancestral home, is due to be sentenced today.

MANY of Scotland’s leading political voices, and their cheerleaders in the media, seem to have forgotten that we’re living through a pandemic.

Follow along with the latest from Nicola Sturgeon's lockdown update for Scotland.

A number of support staff and officers at Larbert police station have been said to have been infected by the virus

Nicola Sturgeon will deliver a Covid update to the Scottish Parliament today

FRIENDS and colleagues of the late Charles Kennedy MP have condemned the treatment they say he experienced during the 2015 General Election campaign.

ISLANDERS are facing empty shop shelves and out of date food after a community has only had one ferry to its mainland ports in 10 days.

LOCKDOWN has brought with it a new search for calm. It’s difficult to explain. It’s not as though life is high octane, moving from working in front of my laptop; to my volunteer work in front of my laptop; to freelance work on the laptop; to soci...

A Scottish council at the centre of a bullying row has been rebuked by an employment tribunal, with a former social worker being awarded almost £27,000 for unfair dismissal.

PREPARING for Holyrood elections, Scotland faces a constitutional debate demanding either another independence plebiscite or

SCOTLAND is set to be put back into a local tiered system of restrictions – as Boris Johnson unveiled a “one way road to freedom” with a four-stage plan that could see restrictions in England completely lifted by the summer.

A PhD student at a Scottish university has won a prestigious award naming her as one of the best young scientists in her field.

The employment rate in Scotland fell slightly in the last quarter, according to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

Boris Johnson announced England's plan for easing lockdown restrictions as Nicola Sturgeon is set to reveal Scotland's plans.

By Scott Wright

Scottish council pensions have been revealed to have more than £1.2 billion invested in fossil fuel companies – despite widespread declarations of a climate emergency.

HOSPITALITY businesses have said they will need financial help including a sector-specific version of furlough until at least March 2022 as they called on backing from prospective MSPs.

Local authority pensions have more than £1.2 billion invested in fossil fuel companies, new analysis by environmental campaigners has found.

By Ian McConnell

By Ian McConnell

GLOBAL drilling technology and services company NXG has invested more than £1 million in a new Aberdeen headquarters and a site to support projects in Latin America.

HE’S served in Gulf War and embarked on expeditions to North and South Pole, but it was exploring a project closer to home which has brought him the greatest satisfaction.

It's 7pm in Tasmania, where chef Analiese Gregory is. There's a huge bowl of in-season cherries beside her, a glass of wine in her hand, and a day behind her spent cooking, foraging and being awed by her new hive of bees. "They like it when it's sunn...

SHE knows only too well the impact and devastation covid can bring having lost a friend to the virus and watched another family friend suffer from the long term effects of it.

Disney +, the streaming platform the company launched in Europe by last spring, is issuing so-called trigger warnings for some of its older shows. The latest to receive one features a cast of rambunctious and opinionated puppets headed by a chartr...

Nicola Sturgeon is set to unveil Scotland's route map out of lockdown as restrictions are set to ease across the country.

THE ANIMALS AT LOCKWOOD MANOR

Invisible cities

It’s a strange thing to start a new column amidst an old political battle.

SCOTTISH Labour have called for asymptomatic testing to play a key role in Nicola Sturgeon’s blueprint to ease the lockdown.

WHILE Boris Johnson has insisted lifting the lockdown will be determined by data not dates, he has nonetheless given us a range of days on the calendar to watch, the most important of which is June 21, when the lockdown in England could finally be ov...

The fireball was likely a meteor, say experts

BORIS Johnson has unveiled a “one way road to freedom” with a four-step plan that could see coronavirus restrictions in England finally lifted by June 21.

ALEX Salmond has accused Nicola Sturgeon’s husband and others close to her of being part of a plot to destroy his reputation and send him to jail.

NICOLA Sturgeon has tried to downplay the meeting at the centre of claims she lied to Holyrood over the Alex Salmond affair, saying it “never held any significance in my head”.

Nicola Sturgeon is preparing to announce Scotland's own roadmap our of lockdown.

In the grand scheme of provocative exhibition titles, The Ignorant Art School surely has to rank in the top tier. Particularly, you might note, given that this particular programme takes place in the Cooper Gallery, the exhibition space at Dundee’s...

NICOLA Sturgeon has dared Alex Salmond to prove there was a conspiracy against him when he gives evidence to a Holyrood inquiry on Wednesday.

Hospitality businesses need financial help until at least March 2022, industry chiefs have told Scotland's political leaders.

BORIS Johnson's allies have said claims that his fiancee Carrie Symonds is playing a key role in the Government are "incorrect".

AN UNHAPPY Nicola Sturgeon has defended leaving a four-nations meeting on ending the coronavirus lockdown across the UK in order to do the daily briefing.

SCOTLAND’s strategy for easing the lockdown and lifting restrictions will be “broadly similar” to Boris Johnson’s plan for England, Nicola Sturgeon has said.

Is there a question that you have always wanted answered about the inner workings of a newspaper?

A Scot was left astonished after she found the washed-up remains of a fish like a ‘prehistoric’ alligator on the shore of a reservoir in Singapore.