To promote safety Transport Scotland is exploring the possibility of reducing the limit for cars and vans by 10mph on single carriageways while also raising it for HGVs by 10mph. With this in mind the organisation will hold two public events in Moray next week to gauge public reaction.

The minister for business says it has been an ‘absolute privilege’ to have served the constituency in his parliamentary career.

In 1999 Richard, then-29, was elected to the Scottish Parliament as a regional MSP for North East Scotland, before he became Moray’s MSP in 2006. He began considering an exit from “frontline politics” after the 2021 election, but found the final decision a very difficult one.

A man has been arrested and charged in connection with a house fire and car theft in New Elgin. The house fire and the theft of a silver Ford Fiesta occurred at a property on Sandy Road at around 12.45pm on November 13 last year.

A mum is calling for a change to how sex education is taught after "inappropriate material” left her daughter feeling "anxious" and "stressed".

The regeneration project in one of Scotland’s most deprived areas is a test case for the nation’s ability to foster supply chain manufacturing capacity in a sector that has lured interest from overseas investors and is crucial to the UK’s ambitions to decarbonise power by 2030.

Winds of up to 100mph are forecast during Storm Éowyn with a large part of Scotland's central belt and the south west under a red "danger to life" weather warning. Police Scotlan

The "best fish and chip shops" in Scotland have been named in a new list shared by travel magazine Time Out, with chippies in Fife and Shetland among those singled out.

Emma Cormie says her nine-year-old daughter told her that she and her friend had seen "pictures of a naked man" at school during a sex education lesson

Anglers are preparing to gather in Inverness with a sense of renewed optimism as they mark the start of the salmon fishing season on the River Ness.

The Old Edinburgh Club draws our attention to what happened in the capital in years and centuries gone by. Day Event 1st: In 1918, Dame Muriel Spark (author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie) was born Muriel Sarah Camberg in Edinburgh;

A man has been charged in connection with a house fire and a car theft. Emergency services were called to Sandy Road in New Elgin at around 12.45pm on November 13, 2024, following reports of a blaze. The fire was extinguished and no one was injured. Officers have charged a 39-year-old man in connection with the incident.