He added: “Opposition for opposition's sake is all well and good where governments have comfortable majorities, but put ...

First Minister John Swinney will pledge to bring policy-making closer to communities in a major speech ahead of next week’s ...

Women’s Aid could be wiped from the map in the Scottish Highlands under council plans to adopt a single provider covering men and women, it is claimed. In an unprecedented step, four local groups ...

David Hamilton said he is still seeing “unconventional messaging” – such as WhatsApp and Microsoft Teams – being used ...

What’s your earliest memory? My mother crying one evening in the house. I couldn’t understand why, but I realised later it ...

Scottish Labour has unveiled a bid to bring back the Winter Fuel Payment for thousands of pensioners. Universal entitlement ...

When MSPs recently voted to scrap annual targets for reducing carbon emissions, Sarah Boyack was on the other side of ...

The IFS said the extra £1.5bn day-to-day resource funding had significantly improved the short-term funding outlook for ...

Scotland has a long history of pumped-storage hydropower, but there has been a 40 year wait in the UK for a new major ...

The Scottish Government has been asked to act over safety fears after emergency services were called to an industrial estate ...

Scottish finance secretary Shona Robison has accused the UK Government of “austerity through the back door” after Chancellor ...

Elena Whitham has said she will not stand for re-election at the 2026 Scottish Parliament election. The former government ...