An expert in Scottish Gaelic literature says he “can’t wait” to take on his newly-appointed role as Scotland’s national poet ...

The head of a victim support group has said electronic monitoring tags need to provide “better safeguards” as official ...

John Swinney said the statement of the government’s tax and spending plans, which will be published by Finance Secretary ...

The number of private in-patient/day-care hospital admissions in Scotland reached its highest quarterly level earlier this ...

Retail sales in Scotland decreased by 2.9% in November when compared with last year, according to the SRC-KPMG Scottish ...

MSPs on Holyrood’s Education Committee have been examining the changes proposed in the Education (Scotland) Bill.

Elgin City have landed a plum draw at home to Aberdeen in the fourth round of the Scottish Cup. City will welcome the ...

Trade unionists are to demonstrate outside Holyrood calling for pensioners to have more help heating their homes this winter.

There are now five Multibank charity centres across Britain, which have distributed five million products to half a million ...

High demand at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary saw NHS Grampian declare a critical incident last week - but that has now ended.

Sarah Snell takes over the role of HM chief inspector of prisons in Scotland from Wendy Sinclair-Gieben, who stepped down in ...

Russell Findlay said he was ‘disappointed’ that two of his councillors defected to Nigel Farage’s party but that he ...