First Minister Nicola Sturgeon will confirm "whether and to what extent" plans to further ease coronavirus restrictions can take place.

ONE of Scotland's oldest publicly owned ferry vessels has had to be taken in for repairs due to a fault - as another was due to make a return.

PARTS of Scotland may remain under tougher coronavirus restrictions next week, the Health Secretary has warned, despite plans to relax the rules.

ATTEMPTING to establish "the truth" in Scottish politics is a difficult business. One person’s black is another person’s white depending on where they sit along the independence-unionist axis. Everything is disputable, everything open to doubt...

THE SNPs flagship employment programme is weak, limited and oversold, according to a leading Scottish thinktank.

Nicola Sturgeon is due to give an update to parliament on the latest Covid restrictions in Scotland.

NO ONE will be watching the covid lockdown update from Nicola Sturgeon this week more closely than restaurateur Colin Clydesdale.

It's aim is to plant ten trees for every man, woman and child in Greater Glasgow as part of a new urban forest to tackle climate change.

SNP ministers have been told to set out hospital construction safeguards after plans were drawn up to ensure building projects are completed with infection control standards in mind.

THERE was a recent generational squabble about punctuation in text messages. Apparently putting a full stop at the end of a text message is rudeness akin to violence for younger generations. I ask a 13-year-old about this and he says, "It's like you ...

ONE common mistake made by people desperately trying to do their opponents down is assuming that everyone will share their disapproval. It’s an odd assumption, easily disproven by historical precedents and common sense, but lots of us cling to i...

THEY are a unique collection of vases hand-painted by some of Scotland’s leading contemporary artists and brought together in a one off exhibition.

DELICATE prehistoric animal carvings thought to be between 4,000 and 5,000-years-old have been discovered for the first time in Scotland in an ancient tomb.

They were told not to be afraid; that no one would harm them.

By Scott Wright

TODAY'S article by Mark Smith struck a chord on many levels ("Forget the labels: I don’t want to be a unionist any more", The Herald, May 31).

AT just nine-years-old Heather Bryson is already showing signs of knowing just how to bring people together.

Concerns have been raised over the mental health of police officers in Scotland after a new survey revealed around half are suffering from stress and burnout at work.

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Carrie Johnson rented three “decoy” dresses to ensure extra secrecy surrounding her wedding to the Prime Minister on the weekend according to reports.

WHEN Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, and Nicola Sturgeon, the First Minister, announced in March 2020 that the country would be shut down indefinitely, few argued.

By Ian McConnell

HUNDREDS of floating wind power turbines could be deployed in the North Sea under a plan that it is claimed could deal with the bulk of emissions associated with the production of oil and gas in the area.

A pensions giant has asked awkward questions of Scotland’s much-vaunted fund management industry as the Government proposes to make changes to the regulatory regime that could impact millions who are unaware of them.

The EU’s ambassador to the UK has accused new DUP leader Edwin Poots of making comments about the post-Brexit Northern Ireland Protocol that lack “adherence to reality”.

THE UK’S economic recovery from the pandemic is likely to be faster than first anticipated, a leading international agency has suggested.

A Scottish renewable energy pioneer has won a big vote of confidence from a prominent US entrepreneur as it eyes growth in overseas markets.

Scotland bakes in a heatwave

Liquid lunch

JOANNA Cherry has quit the ruling body of the SNP.

SCOTLAND'S biggest publicly run ferry is due back in service tonight - after nearly seven weeks of repairs.

NHS Forth Valley is calling on anyone who visited the Tingle bar in King Street, Stirling, to get tested

A Highland Perthshire has been ranked the fifth best in Britain and best in Scotland.

A FORMER deputy leader of Scottish Labour has been dropped from Anas Sarwar’s frontbench during a shake-up of his shadow team.

The Met Office said that the mercury peaked in Kinloss at 24.6C early in the afternoon

ALBA party MPs have hired a former SNP MSP to work for them in Westminster.

There have been 490 new cases of Covid-19 reported in Scotland in the past 24 hours.

Prehistoric carvings of animals have been discovered for the first time in Scotland.

ALEX Salmond has told Prince William it would be “extraordinarily foolish” to get to embroiled in the independence debate after his meeting with Gordon Brown.

THE SNP is facing internal turmoil after its treasurer and independence taskforce chief both quit in the same week.

Sunshine and record-bursting temperatures have been the order of the day as Scots took to the outdoors to enjoy the bank holiday.

PART of the town centre of an East Dunbartonshire town has been shut down following an incident at a bank.

The 1820 Glasgow Police Act gave the city the bragging rights for the world’s earliest civic police force. That was nine years before Sir Robert Peel established London’s Metropolitan force, often credited with being the first full-time, civil...

GAELIC campaigners have accused the SNP Government of "sidelining" the crisis facing the language as they called for urgent talks over its future.

Nicola Sturgeon is in talks with the Scottish Greens to freshen the face of government and formalise Holyrood’s independence majority.

THEY might look like slightly out of place against some of the nearby historic buildings, but these wooden decking and benches in Glasgow are all part of a way of helping to improve safe movement around the city.

The Health Secretary has said there has been a “drastic” decrease in the number of people failing to turn up for their coronavirus vaccine appointments at SSE Hydro arena in Glasgow.

I SHOULD probably start by telling you what happened to me when I moved to Glasgow in the 1990s. It took me by surprise at the time and, 30 years on, I’m still not sure how I feel about the incident. But I do worry that the attitudes and prejudi...

ONE of the many takeaways from Dominic Cummings’ incendiary evidence to MPs last week was that Downing Street exists in a state of chaos.

IT'S no wonder people once thought the Corryvreckan whirpool was controlled by a sea witch. The gulf can seem a fickle stretch of water. There are times, on a slack tide, when strong swimmers can traverse the calm stretch and divers visit, briefly...