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NORTH America’s first Gaelic medium school is to open in a former convent in a $2 million investment in Scottish culture, it has been con...

IN his article in The National on Saturday (How an independent Scotland could have a real democracy, March 13), Robert Ingram of the Cons...

NICOLA Sturgeon is set to update Scotland on key dates for the lifting of coronavirus lockdown restrictions.

A UNITED set of recommendations from organisations representing Scotland’s hospitality sector has been submitted to the Scottish Governme...

SCOTS are being urged to remember Syrians whose lives have been torn apart by the country’s brutal war on the 10th anniversary of the con...

ASYLUM seekers and refugees will this week join the launch of the latest phase of the Lift the Ban campaign on working rights.

FOR many Burmese it has brought new meaning to the term “night terrors.” Online the hashtag #nightdragging is used by many residents amon...

THESE are turbulent times domestically and internationally. The UK Government, state and wider reputation of the UK has taken a hit of la...

"ANYWHERE but Syria.” That’s the conclusion of many youngsters who, after 10 years of war, have been left without any sense of home. It’s...

Independence would bring benefits such as a Foreign Ministry, membership of the un and international recognition. That would be my prefer...

SCOTLAND needs to develop a more ambitious foreign policy, which could include becoming an international “hub” for conflict resolution, a...

IN 2014, the Better Together campaign did everything it could to spread fear and alarm among older people, falsely claiming pensions were...

THE Scottish Government could expand its presence in the Nordic and Baltic region with a new “Scotland House” hub, it has been reported.

THE Scottish Government has revealed plans to incorporate four United Nations Human Rights treaties into law, subject to the outcome of t...

LIKE a name and a voice summoned from the dim and distant past, the man who was president Richard Nixon’s lawyer, John Dean, has declared th...

ACROSS the world nature is in decline, and here in Scotland the situation is no different. One in nine species faces extinction and natur...

Dr Craig Dalzell’s paper on how Scotland and the remainder of the UK could negotiate the separation of debts and assets is the third pape...

THE Scottish Government’s tax and spending plans have been backed by MSPs after deals were reached with the Greens and the LibDems.

THE Scottish Budget is expected to pass in Holyrood today after the Greens reached a deal with the Government to back the vote.

THE Scottish Government has struck a deal with the Greens​ to ensure the Budget is passed into law.

THE SNP have demanded the UK Government scrap its hostile environment and automatically extend the rights of EU nationals in the UK, followi...

CITIZENS Advice Scotland (Cas) is encouraging people to check to save on their council tax this month, as new figures reveal the Citizens Ad...

ALEADING commentator on Highland issues has been appointed to the board of Community Land Scotland. At 29, Thurso-based Magnus Davidson is t...

COVID-19 has exposed huge inequalities in the UK which have been a main cause of the alarming death toll. Sunak’s Budget for business has...

THE SNP have called for a vote on whether foreign aid should be cut after a leaked report showed Westminster is planning drastic reductio...