New NRS figures show Scotland's drug deaths rose 11% to 1,133 in 2025, with record cocaine fatalities and nitazenes linked to 247 deaths amid drug crisis.

Today's cartoon from Steven Camley - you can read the full story here.

Scotland’s poorest children face significantly worse health outcomes

Scotland’s data centre backlash grows as local campaigns oppose hyperscale AI projects in Hurlford, Larbert, Cato, Hermiston, Chapelhall and the Lammermuirs.

Data centres and AI promise to reshape our landscape and lives. The Herald's new series looks at what that means - and the backlash against it.

Addict Reece Gordon (27) choked a PC and left them “fearful for their life” after the officer found him passed out on a doorstep and tried to help.

Keys to the new £61 million Nairn Academy campus have been handed over in a milestone moment for pupils and staff.

Community transport providers are being used as well as in-house council services.

The hotel first earned the prestigious key in 2024.

A free community-run Inverness book festival is transforming itself in a bid to survive after conceding it is slowly fading away.