Deputy First Minister John Swinney has announced he will self-isolate after being identified as a close contact of someone who tested positive for Covid.

Tickets for the first Dundee derby of the season are set to go on sale for both sets of supporters.

Pink sunsets are on the Angus horizon as nature reserve bosses await the annual influx of migrating visitor.

A Courier Business Briefing this month will focus on sustainability and the road to net zero.

Mill Street in Broughty Ferry could be pedestrianised as part of a drive to cut road deaths across Dundee.

It's a silent killer claiming more lives than breast, bowel and prostate cancer combined.

A bookshop at a small Perthshire railway station has raised a whopping £350,000 for charities since it opened.

Dundee's four-time British figure skating champion Natasha McKay has moved closer to competing for Team GB at the Winter Olympics.

A sledgehammer-wielding community local hero chased off joyriders performing "doughnuts" after they churned up grass at a Fife beauty spot.

ScotRail is planning to axe the direct Kirkcaldy to Perth service under its 'post-Covid' timetable shake-up.

North East Green MSP Maggie Chapman says she is “angry and sad” at the amount of racist and anti-immigrant abuse she receives.

A new survey has suggested more than half of police officers in Scotland would like to carry handguns on patrol over safety fears.

Police confirmed on Monday night that Denis Findlay, who was reported missing from his home in Dunfermline, has been traced safe and well.

Students from Dundee University took on all three of Britain's highest peaks in just 24 hours.

Angus tennis ace Jonny O'Mara saw his US Open doubles dream end after a brave defeat to the tournament's second seeds.

The new week ushers in a new clutch of court craziness.

A man has appeared in court accused of murdering Fife woman Jane Fitzpatrick.

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Finance Secretary Kate Forbes claimed regions such as the Highlands risk losing out in a row over major infrastructure spending in Scotland.

A new date has been set for the reopening of Perth Leisure Pool - with hopes that it will be able to welcome visitors in time for the October school holidays.

Concerns have been raised over the lack of regular coronavirus testing in schools despite isolation figures soaring among pupils.

Dog walkers in Fife are being warned to ensure they have control of their pets after a seabird was taken from the water by two dogs at a St Andrews beach.

Football giveth; football taketh away.

A Fife RNLI crew member is thought to have become the first person to swim across the Firth of Forth to Inchkeith Island and back in a unique fundraising challenge.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has thanked Scotland’s Jewish community for their “sacrifices” during the coronavirus pandemic to mark the start of Rosh Hashanah.

Two further banners spreading conspiracy theories about the coronavirus vaccine have appeared in Glenrothes.

Brechin City have unveiled their latest towering defender.

A man who collapsed and died on his beloved Carnoustie golf course was just days away from meeting his new grandson for the first time.

Detectives in Dunfermline have launched an investigation into an attempted robbery which left a 24-year-old woman with minor injuries.

A shocked woman was twice groped in a Cowdenbeath supermarket.