Where to find the best Scottish culture during Edinburgh's Hogmanay festival

Dundee’s dining and hospitality scene has enjoyed an exciting year of reinvention and growth in 2025.

This is the final part of a playlist of the essential 100 (or so) tunes to come out of Scotland in 2025.

The cost of running Scotland’s railways has doubled since nationalisation, with taxpayers now footing a bill of more than £800 million a year, The Herald can reveal.

WE arrived at the flat the day before the winter solstice dressed in old clothes and ready for action. Our eldest son and his girlfriend picked up the keys a few weeks earlier

John Swinney says momentum may be fading on a US whisky tariff deal, warning negotiations must now be driven by the UK Government.

Matthew, John Swinney’s teenage son, was “livid” at missing Scotland’s incredible 4-2 defeat of Denmark last month.

A Scottish family-owned food business has declared a 'most satisfactory outcome'

More than 500 officers have quit Police Scotland after less than five years – with figures for the period 2021 to 2025 also showing more than 200 officers resigned after serving less than one year.

More than 500,000 young Scots could benefit if free bus travel was extended to everyone under the age of 30 in next month’s Holyrood Budget, Greens have said.

It’s about ‘saving Christians’ says the US president, but as Foreign Editor David Pratt reports, it’s yet more proof that his administration is opportunist and far from ‘isolationist’

BRINY baloney or bracing bathe? Whichever it is, the Loony Dook, which takes place every 1 January, has become a Scottish institution, at least in the east and south east of the controversial quasi-nation.

An exclusive visit to Glasgow and Clyde Rape Crisis Centre reveals growing funding fears, rising demand and the risk facing vital support for survivors.

Scrapping the two-child limit is welcome, but Scotland remains far off meeting child poverty targets, says Joseph Rowntree Foundation's Chris Birt.

A charity has warned scrapping the two-child benefit limit is 'not enough' to meet Scotland’s child poverty targets ahead of the Holyrood 2026 elections.

Renovation and safety works at Ayr Sheriff Court have cost more than £250,000 so far.

The planned improvements include better parking, EV charging points, secure cycle racks, accessible wooden ramps, and more.

Greenock Ocean Terminal is preparing for another busy cruising season, with upwards of 60 vessels already scheduled to stop off at the port in 2026.

Argyle House could be demolished and redeveloped - but the plan is coming up against criticism from conservationists, heritage bodies and architects.

Over Hogmanay many of us will toast in the New Year with a whisky, but how sustainable will your dram be?

When Amy Irons was a wee girl at her granny’s house in Stirling, the Hogmanay party lasted until the wee hours with folk spilling from the front room to the back garden and the children wide-eyed despite the hands of the clock.

Hotel guests and a soup kitchen have been evacuated as firefighters tackle a blaze in the Merchant City area of the city.

Changes to a busy centre street, including new bus gates, will be put in place early next year.

Jordan Gray, 26, was found dead in a flat in Shields Court in Motherwell on December 15 after being shot.

Firefighters from Tiree Community Fire Station were alerted to reports of the blaze at Tiree Baptist Church in Baugh, Tiree, at around 3:27am on Boxing Day.

Edinburgh’s Hogmanay celebrations are set to shine on the global stage this New Year’s Eve, as the city hosts major global network CNN as they broadcast live from Scotland’s capital as part of its worldwide countdown to 2026.

A new railway bridge being built at a strategic development site in West Dunbartonshire has been glided into position, marking a major moment in the site's transformation.

Highland Council has announced that Air Charter Scotland has been successful in taking over the Wick to Aberdeen air service.

A MAJOR regeneration of North Berwick Harbour has moved past its initial stages.

The body was wrongly released from a hospital mortuary to the undertakers – with the error only discovered after cremation had taken place

This charming C-Listed Ayrshire farmhouse dating back to 1787 has just gone on the market for offers over £375,000.

A HISTORIC building on the site of a new housing development in the Southside has been demolished.

First Minister John Swinney is “duping” his party’s supporters into thinking he can win a majority, Anas Sarwar has claimed.

Russia has attacked Kyiv with missiles and drones, wounding at least 11 people, a day before key talks between Ukraine and the US.

Sir Keir Starmer’s future could be determined in May as a polling expert warned Labour faces nationwide losses at next year’s elections.

Here is the third part of our playlist of the essential 100 (or so) tunes to come out of Scotland.

It’s easy to argue that it’s been an eventful period for investors, and navigating the markets is certainly not always black and white

The latest climbdown by Labour will ease the pressure on family farms, not eradicate it

The main message from 2025? Fortitude is not optional

Nearly four in 10 women in Scotland say they would walk more if they felt safer after dark, according to a survey, highlighting calls for better lighting.

Scottish workers are around £700 a year worse off under the SNP, Labour claims, as figures show Scotland has the lowest pay growth in the UK outside London.

In 2026, Edinburgh will become the latest city to appoint a ‘night czar’ to oversee and support its night-time economy. But what will they actually do?

"A routine urine test uncovered a silent cancer. Surgery at Monklands saved my life—and why early diagnosis and open talk still matter in Scotland.”

SNP has warned Scots could be unfairly hit by Labour’s plans to raise the state pension age, warning about a "one-size-fits-all" approach.

A group of mothers have urged Police Scotland to launch an investigation into an Israeli company for alleged war crimes

Russian president Vladimir Putin appeared in a festive children's cartoon described by the studio which made it as a "soft power" tool

Tesla will construct a huge battery storage system in Scotland, allowing for better storage of electricity produced by wind turbines

A man has been arrested in connection with an alleged 'rape' in a park in Glasgow.

A car-ramming and stabbing attack by a Palestinian man left two people dead in northern Israel on Friday, police said

Ayrshire Cancer Support’s Big Boxing Day Dip. Around 200 people went for a dip into the Firth of Clyde at Ayr beach this morning.