20 May 2024
Changes have been implemented by NHS Highland which will lead to a senior clinician providing substantive cover for psychiatry in Caithness.
18 May 2024
Green Health Week offers a packed schedule of events and activities being coordinated by colleagues from Think Health Think Nature.
17 May 2024
A bid to get an independent review into the circumstances surrounding the closure of the Avonlea children's home in Wick has been defeated.
17 May 2024
The chairperson of a pressure group to effect changes to respite care in Caithness has condemned the council’s decision not to reinstate services.
16 May 2024
The Deputy First Minister has been told about the “disastrous situation” faced by Caithness mothers who have to travel to Inverness to give birth.
15 May 2024
A young farmer set out from John O’Groats with his support team on Sunday and is heading to Land’s End in a pig-themed car aptly named Pigasso.
15 May 2024
A Highland boy (5) with an extremely rare genetic disease is searching for a Ross County FC kit in time for his “best day ever” as club mascot.
14 May 2024
A network of walking groups which operates in Thurso, Castletown and Wick has become the 700th organisation to sign up to a mental health charter.
13 May 2024
Jamie Stone, MP for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross, is set to arrange two 'one-stop' support events for senior residents in Wick and Dunbeath.
12 May 2024
A gay man from the far north recounts the experience of being given hallucinogenic drugs in a bid to change his sexuality.
11 May 2024
Blind and partially sighted people in Caithness will be able to receive in-person support at upcoming events with a leading sight loss charity.
10 May 2024
Councillors in Caithness want answers from the new boss of NHS Highland over “the significant cost” of providing locum psychiatrists in the north.
07 May 2024
Jamie’s Journal by Jamie Stone
07 May 2024
Scotland’s new first minister has been urged to focus on the Highlands, with a lack of dentists in Caithness among the issues raised by MP Jamie Stone
04 May 2024
Changing rooms at the games hall in Thurso High School are due to be demolished this year, it has been confirmed by Highland Council.
01 May 2024
NHS Highland has been recognised for the way it treats overseas staff, such as three assistant practitioners from Kenya who are working in Caithness.
01 May 2024
Holyrood Notebook by Rhoda Grant
30 April 2024
Healthcare campaigners are preparing for a wellbeing festival in Wick next month that will feature around 40 exhibitors as well as guest speakers.
30 April 2024
Highland councillor Willie Mackay has called for as many responses as possible to the social care survey being run by Encompass Caithness.
28 April 2024
A lifesaving charity that transports vital medical supplies across the Highlands and Islands free of charge for the NHS has received a funding boost.