After promising to provide music tuition - no strings attached - some of Scotland's councils are now changing their tune ...

The Scottish Government remains committed to fully dualling the A96 between Inverness and Aberdeen, the transport secretary ...

All pensioners in Scotland will be given help with winter fuel bills next year, the Scottish Government has confirmed. Plans ...

John Swinney has apologised to the woman raped by footballer David Goodwillie over a delay to a decision on allowing a ...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves ended universal entitlement to the Winter Fuel Payment, worth up to £300, in a move backed by MPs ...

Judges have retired to consider their verdict in a landmark case about the legal definition of “woman”. The UK’s highest ...

John Swinney has defended Neil Gray’s use of a ministerial car to see a film premier, claiming it was “relevant” to the ...

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

The SNP MP grew up in the Northern Irish countryside. He tells Holyrood about studying in Stirling and falling in love with Scotland What’s your earliest memory? My mother crying one evening in the ...

Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) manages 9% of Scotland (650,000 hectares) as the Scottish Government agency entrusted with the mission "to look after Scotland’s forests and land, for the benefit of ...

“We do not stand a snowflake’s chance in hell of getting to net zero by 2045”, professor Astley Hastings, reader in environmental science at the University of Aberdeen, tells me. Hastings is one of ...

First Minister John Swinney will pledge to bring policy-making closer to communities in a major speech ahead of next week’s Scottish budget. The speech, in which the first minister is to outline his ...