A body has been found after a police search for a 16-year-old boy on Skye.

Cross-border train tickets are set to be slashed by as much as half in April and May under a UK Government move.

Scotland's hospitals have hired 191 nurses from countries including Indian and the Philipines and hundreds of support staff to help the NHS through “unprecedented challenges”.

Russian forces have attacked along a broad front in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday as part of a full-scale ground offensive in the region.

WE are just at the beginnings of a food crisis, which is likely only to fully drive home in 2023, and those that warn that we need to do something about it now are entirely right. The year to come is one that will challenge us in many ways, since a t...

A SCOTS scientist is not letting visa issues stop her embarking on a 1600 mile cycle ride from Glasgow to Stockholm to prove it is a viable form of transport in the fight against climate change.

SCOTLAND is to get a new tartan from a designer whose kilts are already a favourite of pop star Justin Bieber and tennis coach Judy Murray.

CAMPAIGNERS say the charity that runs Glasgow venues should be scrapped while raising concerns that over 20 of the city's community centres and halls remain not fully open, over two years on from the Covid pandemic lockdown.

CALMAC have launched an investigation after one of its oldest vessels 'crashed' after an engine failure.

BORIS Johnson is set to address MPs today in a bid to shore up his leadership ahead of a potential slew of new fines for breaking lockdown rules.

New immigration laws will have a "massively detrimental" impact on exploited children, who will be at greater risk of being unidentified, unprotected and penalised, charities have warned.

THE SNP leader of Edinburgh City Council has called on the Scottish and UK governments to bring forward a “green new deal” for the capital after admitting the city’s housing will fail to move away from gas heating before a net zero target.

THERE are a great many things about the pandemic that won't be missed, and those all are far too obvious to list.

The owner of Glasgow insurance brokerage Kelvin Smith has said the company is set for record turnover of £15 million as it heads into its 40th year of trading.

A SCOTTISH architects practice has been appointed to work on 1,000 new homes at a former factory site.

ISLAND communities are proposing potential new ticketing options they believe could help residents and businesses using Scotland's ferries.

By Scott Wright

WHILE investors appear keen to build huge windfarms off Scotland, hopes that such projects will generate lots of jobs in the country dimmed last week as the value of North Sea gas was underlined.

How should we feel about the return of Piers Morgan?

Farming

OK, I confess: last week I entered a café in Aboyne and it was a few seconds before I realised I wasn’t wearing a face mask. Perhaps if I turn myself in now, I’ll be treated leniently – transportation to Rwanda rather than the death penalty.

ONE of the most telling moments of the ongoing Partygate saga came in the hours following the news that Boris Johnson had become the first sitting Prime Minister found to have broken the law.

FOR anyone wondering what Scotland’s council elections should be about, I commend the Parable of the Children’s Playparks. It is a subject which commands few headlines but actually matters to many citizens.

Hints and answer for today's Wordle.

WHEN news broke of bonkers billionaire Elon Musk’s plans to buy Twitter – potentially the most expensive example of spitting one’s dummy out of the pram in history – I was reminded of Peter Gabriel’s song Games Without Frontiers.

Our cartoonist Steven Camley on Johnson's party tricks.

THERE are plenty of reasons to disapprove of the Home Secretary’s plans to process the applications of asylum seekers crossing the English Channel “offshore” in Rwanda. But the dozens that I could supply – which are, naturally, the sensible a...

The hole truth

ALEX Salmond will today launch the manifesto in a make-or-break election for his fledgling Alba party.

ACTION is needed to eradicate religious and cultural hate from Scottish workplaces, according to a diversity expert set to address leaders of some of the nation’s most important businesses.

Police Scotland will take no further action against the First Minister following complaints about her breaching Covid rules during a campaign stop.

DOUGLAS Ross has accused the SNP and Greens of “continuing to hammer the motorist at every turn” as the Tory leader called for a strategy to invest in upgrades to key road.

A SCOTTISH salmon company that supplies leading restaurants has moved into the direct-to-consumer market.

SCOTLAND'S state-controlled ferry owners have hit back at a users group's accusation of a 'deceptive and biased' procurement process in wake of award of a £105m deal to build two new lifeline vessels in Turkey.

PRITI Patel has challenged critics of her plan to send unauthorised asylum seekers on a one-way trip to Rwanda to come up with a better one.

SCOTLAND’S national clinical director has been accused of "blurring the lines between ministers and government officials" after he defended Nicola Sturgeon for breaching strict Covid face mask rules during a campaign visit over the weekend.

ISLAND communities have launched two surveys into proposals for a new ticketing system on the crisis-hit CalMac Scottish ferries.

Sets have been built, rehearsals are under way and the countdown has begun. Everything is in place for the April 25 launch of the Rupert Murdoch-owned TalkTV. What could possibly go wrong? Plenty. Ask GB News.

You know things are bad when God is against you. The UK Government is planning to send asylum seekers to Rwanda, but according to the Archbishop of Canterbury sub-contracting out our responsibilities in such a way is opposite to God’s nature. “Th...

Writing in The Herald last week, Andy McIver suggested unionists can kill nationalism stone dead by offering a middle way in a binding referendum.

MANY of us who supported Scottish independence in 2014 were immediately pessimistic about the chances of getting to vote for it again in our lifetimes. The UK Government would surely now be wise to the undercurrents which had swept so many citizens i...

From the steps of the Royal Concert Hall there are clear views along Sauchiehall Street and down Buchanan Street, with a glimpse of Argyle Street in the distance. Stand here and at first nothing seems out of kilter, but it doesn’t take long to star...

A skull found by a member of the public in a Scottish town has been confirmed as human remains.

Multiple explosions apparently caused by missiles have struck the western Ukrainian city of Lviv as the country braced for an all-out Russian assault in the east.

Professor Jason Leitch says he is still worried about the “overwhelmed nature” of the health service as the legal requirement to wear face coverings comes to an end in Scotland.

Police have arrested seven people following a 'complex' police operation conducted at the Celtic v Rangers game.

Two men have been charged with attempted murder after a 45-year-old was hit by a car in Edinburgh.

Police are investigating alleged sectarian and anti-Catholic chanting from Rangers fans following yesterday's match against Celtic.

Boris Johnson goes into a new week ready to defend his premiership again as he prepares to insist to MPs there are bigger issues to focus on than the partygate saga.

Ukraine has vowed to “fight absolutely to the end” in Mariupol where the port’s last-known pocket of resistance is holed up in a sprawling steel plant laced with tunnels.