The Scottish Conservatives are set to lodge a motion of no confidence

NHS Grampian head of health intelligence Jillian Evans said a "Scotland-level" search is underway

Follow along with the latest coronavirus news in Scotland and further afield.

The choice now is difficult – to escalate the battle on Wednesday or to compromise.

Public Health England (PHE) said on Sunday that six cases of the concerning P.1 variant first detected in the Brazilian city have been confirmed in Britain

Friends, relatives and carers will be able to visit their loved ones in care homes for the first time this year. Here's everything you need to know.

ANDREW Marr posed the question in a wide-eyed, slightly awestruck way. This must have been what it was like to miss The Beatles on the roof, or one of Sinatra’s last comeback concerts.

CONFIRMED cases of new variants of coronavirus that might be more resistant to the vaccine have more than doubled in Scotland in two weeks as a new Brazilian strain was confirmed to have hit the nation, the Herald can reveal.

MINISTERS have come under fire for failing to curb the number of respiratory deaths in Scotland in the lifetime of the Scottish Parliament - despite the introduction of a no smoking ban.

SCOTLAND has pulled together during the Covid crisis and is now a more united nation - but there are fundamental fears it will be torn apart by the Scottish independence debate.

IT is a generation which has been hit hard by the impact of the pandemic. Young people have seen their school and further education paths affected by uncertainty over the past few months.

YOU suggest that the inability of the Salmond inquiry to hold the Government to account might be due to some structural imbalance in the devolutionary set-up ("We must ensure a mess like this never happens again", The Herald, February 27). However, i...

I’d like to think that the Scottish Parliament attracts the biggest brains in the country. The cleverest, the most able, the most talented. Men and women with the clear and obvious ability and experience to represent the voters, challenge the Go...

IN the digital age Scottish Labour is destined, it seems, always to be operating in analogue. The election of Anas Sarwar as its new leader means this party is destined to skulk around the fringes of Scottish political debate for another few years...

LIBERAL Democrats have drawn up a five-point blueprint for transforming the UK into a federal state – insisting that the Union only works if all countries work together.

By Kristy Dorsey

Analysis By s1jobs  

By Ian McConnell

The Chancellor of the Exchequer will set out his Budget proposals on Wednesday, against a more problematic and uncertain economic and public finance background than has been the case for any of his predecessors. In addition to the continuing and stil...

The Chancellor faces a blizzard of tough decisions on Wednesday, when his Budget speech will among other things include an update on the furlough scheme currently providing a financial lifeline to millions of people across the UK.

Name: Donny Carstairs.

Everything we know so far about the new Brazilian 'P.1' coronavirus variant detected in Scotland.

Scotland is being blighted by mountains of old tyres, broken pallets, builders’ waste and piles of litter carelessly dumped by fly-tippers.

IT is a generation that has been hit hard by the impact of the pandemic. Young people have seen their school and further education paths affected by uncertainty over the past few months.

By Loudon TempleWHEN you are married to one of the most successful touring and recording performers Scotland has ever produced, life can at times get a little hectic.

IT is often described as the most important meal of the day, but  interest in breakfast was on the wane until the pandemic struck and seemingly reignited a love for cereal that has seen some countries run out of favoured brands.

The cook and restaurateur can help you escape through food.

THREE cases of a Covid-19 variant of Concern first identified in Manaus, Brazil, have been identified in Scotland, officials have confirmed

A SCOTTISH football governing body is at the centre of a backlash over a failure to have today's historic showpiece cup final available free to air.

JOHN Swinney is set to face a motion of no confidence by MSPs if he refuses to publish the legal advice the Scottish Government received over its doomed Alex Salmond judicial review by Tuesday.

THE Scottish Government faces a penalty of up to £190m because of irregularities in spending hundreds of millions in Euro funds which have stretched back six years, the Herald on Sunday can reveal.

UNPUBLISHED evidence handed over to the Alex Salmond inquiry suggests the First Minister’s team was aware of complaints against her predecessor several weeks before she told Parliament she first became aware of them, fresh reports have claimed....

SCOTTISHPOWER more than doubled the profits it made in the household supply business last year in spite of the fall in demand for energy triggered by the coronavirus crisis, it said this week.

THE CHANCELLOR has not ruled out raising taxes before cutting them ahead of the next general election amid accusations the Conservatives are playing politics with the pandemic.

Health Secretary Matt Hancock said vaccinating more than 20 million people against coronavirus across the UK is a “magnificent achievement for the country”.

Sunday's opinion page pieces concentrated on former First Minister Alex Salmond's explosive evidence to a Scottish Parliament inquiry in which said he has "no doubt" Nicola Sturgeon breached the ministerial code. Here is The Herald’s pick of tho...

There have been 572 new cases of Covid-19 reported in Scotland in the past 24 hours.

We Are Bellingcat: An Intelligence Agency for the People

I was 15 years old when I bought my first record – Live At Leeds by The Who – in Woolworths. So, by modern standards, you could say that musically I was something of a late developer. But I made up for lost time.

Police in Derbyshire are investigating racist abuse aimed at Derby County player Colin Kazim-Richards.

ANAS Sarwar has issued a warning to Sir Keir Starmer that he will not become Prime Minister “unless he recognises the importance of Scotland” and focus on winning back support north of the border.

If nothing else, it was a masterclass in how to present a case. Alex Salmond’s six-hour Holyrood epic was coherent, unemotional, authoritative and convincing. Few of us could get through such a public ordeal and not put a foot wrong. He is a 66-...

BBC colleagues have moved to support 'bullied' BBC's Scotland editor who faced calls for her resignation on social media after she apologised for a news report saying Alex Salmond called for Nicola Sturgeon to resign.

A new poll on Scottish independence has support evenly locked at 50/50 with the latest Survation poll being the first in 22 to not give Yes a majority.

SCOTTISH Labour leader Anas Sarwar has suggested Nicola Sturgeon should resign if she is found to have breached the ministerial code on a “point of principle” and “respect” for the office of First Minister.

THE issue of trans rights is increasingly in Scottish headlines. To understand the controversy, we spoke with Colin Macfarlane, Scottish director of Stonewall, the UK’s leading LGBT campaign group. Stonewall was established in 1989 by actor Sir ...

Actor Johnny Briggs, who played Mike Baldwin in Coronation Street has died aged 85, his family has confirmed.

A SCOT has told of her ordeal in playing a crucial role in preventing weapons from the Balkans falling into the hands of criminals and terrorists around the world.

It all seemed so easy. Show people the money and they can’t see past that. Show them a little money, spread it around as if it didn’t matter, and they’re sure, they just know, there’s so much more to come. It was just so easy.

WHY don't the various governments in the UK address the major educational deficit created by the curse of Covid over the last year?