Highland County, Scotland News

Motorists who mis-use level crossings should face stiffer penalties, the rail regulator has said.

Hundreds of people have lined streets through the centre of Inverness to watch a march by soldiers from the Black Watch.

Band The Strokes have been confirmed as the headline act for next June's RockNess music festival.

A man who died after he fell at a waterfall in the Highlands has been named by police.

TWO SCHOOLS run by the same headteacher are among the top three primaries in Swindon, results of league tables show.

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Every day it's the topic of conversation the length and breadth of Scotland. Now a new book chronicles the effects of the weather on our nation and its history ONCE it was only the British who talked about the weather day and night, but in this age of global warming it's a subject very much on everyone's agenda.

IT IS A place where you could find Kilwillie in his kilt puzzling over the eccentricities of his aristocratic Highland neighbours at Glenbogle.

Two young children have been orphaned after their mother died in a horrific crash in the Highlands that also claimed the life of an Inverness businessman.

THE cinema industry may be going through a renaissance, but there is one Scottish filmhouse where the latest blockbusters are being screened to a completely empty hall.

TWO people were killed in a car crash on one of Scotland's most notoriously dangerous stretches of road last night.

Wild boar have been released into a forest in a bid to aid the regeneration of ancient Caledonian woodland.

THE findings of the community archaeology survey at Bostadh, Great Bernera was presented at a National Archaeology Conference in Fort William this week.

DECEMBER 24 is a busy night for the legendary bringer of gifts, as the jolly bearded chap wearing his traditional bright-red suit has an awful lot of countries to visit in one day.

A man cleared of raping a 15-year-old schoolgirl yesterday told how he had endured "14 months of hell". Tearful Alan Dawson, 25, left the Inverness courtroom with his crying relatives and said he could not put into words his relief that his ordeal was finally over.

Santa Claus is coming to town ... and he has a VIP parking space waiting for him at the Town House in Inverness A sparkling polar bear at Ness Islands last year IN THE Highland capital, the countdown to the annual Inverness Winter Festival has begun already, as this year it has been extended to run from Halloween to Hogmanay.

The diagnosis of lung cancer in two patients was delayed at a hospital in Scotland, a review of X-rays has found.

SET on the Corran Esplanade, enjoying outstanding views to the isle of Kerrera, yet just minutes' walk from the town centre, the Oban Bay Hotel and Spa has a fabulous location.

'A Czech-Scottish Charity will build a memorial in Arisaig to hundreds of Czechoslovak soldiers who were trained at the Special Operations Executive's Schools during the Second World War, and in daring actions in occupied territory, behind enemy lines, and on battlefields, they rendered an oustanding service to not only the liberation of their ...

A speed restriction which could have prevented the deaths of three members of the same family at a Caithness level crossing should have been in place two months before the accident, it was claimed yesterday.