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Caremark Edinburgh will support the private and public sectors at a time of rising concern over social care availability in Scotland.

British Transport Police (BTP) is continuing to investigate an incident that occurred at a Glasgow train station.

An investigation has been launched into damage to the historical ruins of Old Inverlochy Castle near Fort William.

A man who died in a crash in Fife has been named.

A Scottish housebuilding company has been placed into administration.

A Scottish charity runner has started her bid to run the length of the UK in memory of her best friend, who died from epilepsy last year.

Concerned anglers and environmental experts have hit out at Inverclyde Council after a body of water in Greenock reduced substantially in size, causing 'significant damage' to aquatic wildlife.

Dundee Council leader Mark Flynn has called for more support from the UK and Scottish governments to help boost the struggling city centre.

Opposition to plans to make Barlinnie a listed building have been branded as being out of “self-interest”.

A bid for a new Berwickshire windfarm amounts to 'cultural vandalism' against three Iron Age hillforts, councillors have determined.

Former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell is appearing in court today for a narrative hearing, a week after pleading guilty to embezzling more than £400,000 from the party.

Visitor numbers to Stirling have soared by more than 10 per cent within a year, newly-released figures have confirmed.

Councillor Dan Heap wants to set up a voluntary scheme in which private gardens would be opened up in exchange for help with maintenance costs.

The Herald understands that 63 employees have accepted the terms of a second severance scheme and will leave Edinburgh in July 2026.

The number of private healthcare admissions in Scotland has hit record levels for a fifth consecutive year, figures show.

School support staff in Glasgow are being treated like “second class” workers after being refused Scotland’s World Cup bank holiday, a leading union has said

Lord Jack McConnell navigated an embezzlement row while first minister in 2004. He has told John Swinney and Nicola Sturgeon they must investigate Murrell's actions.

Police Scotland initially did not take a statement from a pro-independence activist who wanted to lodge a complaint about Nicola Sturgeon and Peter Murrell.

The return of freedom of movement would 'have profound benefit to Scotland’s economy', Stephen Flynn says.

Scottish accountants have identified the taxes they believe are most urgently in need of reform

Scottish audio specialist Fretronics Engineering has supplied its equipment to artists such as Harry Styles, Sabrina Carpenter, Blink-182, Benson Boone and Niall Horan

A new study has shown that the scenic North Coast 500 route generated £98.8 million of economic benefit last year alone.

Aldi Scotland has launched a tongue-in-cheek 'Hope Insurance' campaign giving football fans the chance to win vouchers if Scotland's 2026 World Cup group-stage campaign does not go to plan.

The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has called out the Equality and Human Rights Commission's (EHRC) proposed updates to its Code of Practice, which detail how public bodies should apply the Equality Act.

Scottish Government inspectors will attend a Fife farm to verify the slaughter of 271 cattle after a Cattle Identification and Traceability Inspection found the animals were 'unidentifiable and untraceable'.

An "essential" escalator connection from a Glasgow Subway station has remained closed for six months due to what has been described as a "catastrophic failure".

Former defence secretary Sir Liam Fox has written to Keir Starmer asking for an urgent, independent inquiry to "establish the truth" about the Mull of Kintyre Chinook crash.

Police were called to reports of a firearm shot at house in Blackstoun Oval in the area at around 11:20am on Monday, June 1

Plans to buy back flats at Edinburgh's Westfield Court have been halted after councillors voted against the scheme.

For John Swinney and Nicola Sturgeon, a public inquiry into Peter Murrell's embezzlement will be uncomfortable but it is now essential.

Thousands of WhatsApp messages have laid bare Lord Mandelson's scathing private assessments of Sir Keir Starmer. The released exchanges reveal a beleaguered Downing Street operation and bitter internal feuds over policy, welfare reform, and foreign a...

Rangers legend Ally McCoist believes Renfrewshire Council's decision to take no action over the height of two trees on his Bridge of Weir property should be upheld.

Edinburgh Council will stop acting as a property factor in several mixed-ownership residential blocks, with residents set to appoint new management arrangements.

Emergency services were called to the Aldi store on Paisley Road West at around midday on Monday, June 1.

STV chief executive says changes to news programme 'will be sustainable for our business'

A pod of orca have been filmed hunting dolphins in the seas off the West Coast of Scotland in a "historic" moment.

Edinburgh food business Canny Mushrooms has relaunched, aiming to expand its sustainable tinned mushroom products across the UK.

The Scottish Government has committed to consulting on a law to ban phones in schools – will parents, pupils and teachers be taken seriously?

New research from Heriot-Watt University has found that rising salt levels in breeding ponds are threatening Scotland's last remaining population of natterjack toads, one of the UK's rarest amphibians.

A popular Scottish city centre bar and venue has been put up for sale after 13 years.

Former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell is due to appear in court again after he pleaded guilty to embezzling more than £400,000 from the SNP. But this appearance is not for sentencing.

The body of a man was discovered in an industrial estate after emergency services were called to a van on fire.

Axed Scottish TV soap River City was filmed at the same location for 24 years, but the site has now been sold to a property developer for a seven-figure sum.

An airline’s shares have surged in the wake of news of a potential takeover bid by a US investment giant.

An easyJet flight from Palma de Mallorca bound for Glasgow was forced to divert to Liverpool due to a lack of fuel.

Scotland’s summer festival season gets underway with a packed programme of music, art and performance, from the industrial cool of Hidden Door in Edinburgh to TRNSMT’s arena-sized line-up in Glasgow and a landmark 40th Glasgow Jazz Festival, alon...

Edinburgh whisky entrepreneurs are taking on the 54-mile Cateran Yomp through the Scottish Highlands to raise funds for the Army Benevolent Fund.

A pensioner convicted of historical child abuse stretching back almost 60 years is behind bars.

Police are hunting a man after a woman was seriously sexually assaulted in a lane near Clyde Place, Glasgow, at around 1am on Sunday. Anyone with information should call 101.