A new survey by the British Medical Association Scotland gives a snapshot of that pressure. One doctor said “it has become ...

In two weeks’ time, the good folk of Arran should finally see their new ferry, the MV Glen Sannox, come into service on the ...

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Happy New Year! I hope that you have had some time to recharge and reflect over the festive period. Today I’m looking ahead to 2025 and regular readers of my dispatches will recall that this is the ...

With entrenched conflicts continuing to rage in Ukraine and the Middle East, 2025 was already shaping up as a year of continued uncertainty and instability. The re-election of Donald Trump to the ...

Children as young as eight have been excluded from school for drug-related incidents in Edinburgh. New figures show there have been more than 70 incidents involving non-alcohol "substance misuse" ...

Edinburgh’s famous midnight fireworks display, a 45,000-capacity street party and the 10,000-capacity Concert in the Gardens, ...

Scots are being "priced out" of the housing market, Labour has said, after figures revealed one in four say they cannot afford to move to the place they would most like to live.

The blast shelter was designed for workers at the RAF airfield in East Lothian to access quickly when the sirens flared.

An "ambitious and exciting" project which would have cut train journey times between Edinburgh and Glasgow to just 18 minutes - including a stop at Edinburgh Airport - was rejected by the Scottish ...

The Scottish Government raised a series of concerns with the Labour government at Westminster over its plans to end the VAT exemption on private school fees, it can be revealed.

The number of complaints that have been made about the Caledonian Sleeper since it was nationalised last year has reached nearly 900. Nearly £1 million of compensation payments have also been paid out ...