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As evidence for climate change grows, so governments are introducing measures to reduce carbon footprints and ensure that we meet net zero targets.
A driver escaped serious injury after he failed to take a bend, mounted a verge and careered along, hitting road signs before stopping in a ditch.
Caithness householders urged to check bills after ScottishPower refund promise
The John O’Groat Journal and Caithness Courier will be well represented at this year’s Scottish Press Awards with two shortlisted entries.
Police have closed their investigation of a possible human bone found on Dunnet beach after it was established to be around 1500 years old.
The local authority claims she would be leaving the role after just under three years ‘to pursue other interests’.
A farmer has warned that two wind turbines will be “a blight on a valued landscape” and will upset his livestock if they are allowed to go ahead.
The council claims it will save £310,000 with the new structure which aims to strengthen strategic and operational delivery.
Thurso Community Fire Station was called out last night (April 18) to the tower blocks around Stainland Street to deal with a house fire.
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An elderly Castletown man with major health issues says he will make himself homeless and live in a van due to the cost of heating his damp home.
Efforts have begun to secure funding for urgent repairs to a storm-damaged harbour wall at Wick amid fears that a collapse would be a "catastrophe".
Ten out of the 11 most dangerous single-carriageway sections of the A9 are north of Inverness, new figures have revealed.
A Caithness councillor is calling on an animal rescue charity to rethink its "shocking" decision to close its far north centre near Dounreay.
Thirteen young swimmers from Wick Amateur Swimming Club took part in the annual graded meet hosted by their Inverness counterparts at the Aquadome.
Around 80 youngsters took part in coaching sessions in Thurso with ex-Scotland internationalists Colin Hendry, Jackie McNamara and Simon Donnelly.
Ashleigh Campbell and her team hosted the north event of the Pony Club Area 1 Horse and Pony Care competition at Castle View Stables.
Harmsworth Park will host Saturday night football this weekend as Wick Thistle take on Thurso Pentland in a Highland Amateur Cup preliminary tie.
Gary Manson accepts that Wick Academy have “hardly laid a glove” on Banks O’ Dee so far – but the Scorries will be aiming to change that on Saturday.
Lybster turned on the style in a 6-3 victory over Wick Thistle at Cow Park on Wednesday night, picking up their first points since being promoted.
Halkirk United manager Ewan McElroy has said his players “can be really proud of themselves” after finishing third in the North Caledonian League.
Liam Bremner has been “flying” for Wick Groats in the opening weeks of the county league season – after 20 months on the sidelines with a broken leg.
Exploring the remote lochs and lochans of Caithness is not the same challenge that it once was, but there are few who have visited them all
John Davidson completes a loop of the Great Glen Way, taking in the newly signed high-level route over Carn na Leitire
Invernessian cook and food writer Sarah Rankin wants to encourage people to cook from scratch with her first recipe book, Kith.
A thriller writer who has moved from Dorset to Inverness is finding fresh inspiration in her new Highland life.
John Davidson enjoys a morning stroll up the riverside path from Wick, where he finds peaceful paths and a wildlife spotting platform
An award-winning performance from theatre dance company Curious Seed will come to the Lemon Tree in Aberdeen for one night only.
Shed Seven have announced a special 30th anniversary tour which will be coming to Aberdeen.
It opens in Highland Scotland but then spreads out to make connections with cultures across the world.
Direct from the West End, The Drifters Girl comes to Aberdeen and we speak to Carly Mercedes Dyer who plays Faye Treadwell in the hit show.
Professor David Wilson has joined forces with Marcel Theroux for a new tour – Killer Books – which is coming to Aberdeen.
Bob Harris and Colin Hall are heading to St Margaret's Braemar with their show focus on The Beatles.
The "enduring legacy" of Mary Queen of Scots will be celebrated at a new exhibition which is set to get under way in Wester Ross.
Ullapool art gallery, An Talla Solais, has launched its latest exhibition in partnership with the Highland Print Studio.
Ken Skates said in many areas ‘routes that shouldn’t have been included, were’.
The Government said it welcomed the Met’s apology after an officer described an antisemitism campaigner as ‘openly Jewish’.
The comedian is completing the long-distance race with fellow stand-up comic Ivo Graham.
Remy Gordon, 23, and Kami Carpenter, 22, were jailed for life with a minimum of 26 and 25 years respectively.