Nicola Sturgeon has praised the role of Christian values during the coronavirus crisis and the sacrifices made by faith communities in her Easter message.

Nicola Sturgeon has condemned the "shamefully low" conviction rates for rape and sexual assault as she pledged to look at whether Scotland should retain its controversial not proven verdict.

The heartbroken family of a 20-year-old man who died after being found injured inside a flat in Aberdeen have paid tribute.

Data on how many fines Police Scotland have handed out during the pandemic since they were given the power to break up parties.

SCOTLAND'S leading hospitality group has threatened to take ministers to court over its plans to release Scotland from lockdown.

SCOTLAND is missing its targets for providing affordable housing to buy and rent by 10,000, as the number of children in temporary accommodation has soared.

In an exclusive interview for Herald on Sunday readers at Easter, the Moderator of the Church of Scotland talks to Writer at Large Neil Mackay about the existential crisis facing the Kirk and how only a revolutionary reimagining of religion can sa...

THE SNP has pledged to increase a fund to help costs for families whose children are in hospital.

Alex Salmond’s Alba party has failed to ignite the heather, at least so far. There’s five weeks to go and anything could happen, but last week’s opinion poll showing doesn’t suggest that Scottish voters were waiting with bated breath for t...

HUNDREDS of academics have signed an open letter over concerns about changes to Scotland's census.

A HIGH-PROFILE candidate for the Alba party has been referred by the Westminster authorities to the Metropolitan police over alleged fraud.

Scotland will take a further big step out of lockdown tomorrow as further restrictions ease.

As coronavirus deaths soar and far-right president Jair Bolsonaro reshuffles his cabinet and armed forces chiefs, Latin America’s largest country could be entering a sinister chapter. Foreign Editor David Pratt examines the warning signs Politi...

Located a few miles north-west of the fishing town of Eyemouth, the picturesque Berwickshire village of St Abbs is named for Æbbe, daughter of Æthelfrith, ruler in the late 6th century of what was then the Ango-Saxon kingdom of Bernicia. Her bro...

Saturday

Insightful portrait of a complex, vain and fiercely polemical intellectual

The former first minister addressed Alba’s first online candidates’ conference on Saturday

Police Scotland arrested and charged two people after seizing £70,000 worth of drugs

A total of 397 new coronavirus infections have been reported during the past 24 hours

Douglas Ross has accused the SNP of "robbing" essential local services of £1 billion by failing to properly fund councils.

THE rate of reopening the Scottish islands’ tourism industry in comparison to the mainland is a critical factor in the survival of hundreds of businesses from Arran to Orkney.

The First Minister pledged millions to ensure children have access to a place to play.

Lib Dems advanced proposals to tackle Scotland's mental health crisis.

A candidate for the Scottish Parliament election has been branded a "bigot" after suggesting the Covid crisis was caused by gay marriage.

Professor Linda Bauld of Edinburgh University said all studies indicated the jab was safe and effective

Here is everything you need to know to spend a safe holiday

HISTORY matters and so, as we begin another election campaign, my mind drifts back inexorably to an earlier contest, to the UK election of 1997 which brought Tony Blair to UK power and led to the creation of Scotland’s devolved parliament.

Police have appealed for witnesses after a two-year-old was killed in a traffic accident.

Fife, Strathclyde and the Highlands are due to see gale-force winds and snow showers as the country enters an “Arctic trough”.

The latest weekly coronavirus figures have been released, highlighting hotspots of Covid-19 and the risk in each neighbourhood.

THE arrival of the Easter weekend coincides with something of a crossroads in Scotland's progress out of the pandemic.

NHS patients are being put at risk of “avoidable harm”and may be missing vital cancer screening tests because sex and gender are not recorded separately, a study warns.

Scotland's councils have been accused of failing children after figures revealed fewer than one per cent of pupils with additional needs have a legally-binding education support plan in place.

THE SCOTTISH Greens have set out their strategy for tackling Scotland’s drugs death crisis – pledging an end to policies that “clog up our prisons with victims”.

DILAPIDATED and forgotten, it is one of the few buildings left standing from the famous Empire Exhibition held at Glasgow's Bellahouston Park in 1938.

By Scott Wright

IT has been 14 long weeks but Scotland is just days away from being able to take back control of their unruly locks and overgrown gardens.

A nationwide appeal to Scotland’s artist community to come forward to work on The Herald garden of remembrance has taken a step further.

REPEATEDLY Boris Johnston and his ministers have been found by independent inquiries and courts of law to have either broken the Ministerial Code, misled the House or acted unlawfully; all of which have serious consequences in relation to people's tr...

You might have an had an Andy Warhol Campbell’s soup can poster on your wall as a student or a admired a Banksy mural, but being able to bid for an original print at auction might seem like a daunting prospect.

"I WANTED to talk some more about the God thing," the comedian Frank Skinner announced on Tuesday night's episode of Free Thinking on Radio 3. Appropriately enough for the week leading up to Easter, the programme had a religious theme, with Lauren...

THE WORLD'S largest ocean monitoring programme is to be launched across UK Overseas Territories.

Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, San Diego, 1959-1965, Louis Kahn

A man has been charged in connection with the murder of Kamil Charyszyan in Easterhouse.

A man found dead in a property in Blantyre has been identified following the arrest of a 20-year-old.

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PREEN-TAIL DAY

This month people are raising awareness of this stigmatised condition.

A SLOVENIAN start-up company called Juicy Marbles has unveiled a product it describes as “plant-based filet mignon marbled with sunflower oil”

WE all love a good nosy around other people's homes and when they happen to be some of the most stylish in the country, then that makes for excellent telly.