Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf has condemned Rangers fans for their celebrations at Ibrox yesterday, warning supporters could face retrospective action from police.

Where Alex Salmond used a legal blunderbuss Nicola Sturgeon used a subtle knife to eviscerate the man she called her one time “bestie”. Steering one degree north of defamation throughout, she turned last week's hearing, which was supposed to be a...

THE coronavirus pandemic may be a "silver lining" for ME patients who have spent decades being neglected and even denied by medical science.

A SCOTTISH peer has suggested that the country’s legal system may need a rethink in the wake of questions about the impartiality of the role of the Lord Advocate.

THE BBC is looking into hundreds of complaints about an 11-minute discussion about the Alex Salmond affair during Nicola Sturgeon's daily televised update on the coronavirus crisis.

A poll conducted in the aftermath of Nicola Sturgeon and Alex Salmond giving evidence to the Holyrood inquiry has given staying in the Union a majority.

THE sun shone brightly over the calm Holy Loch on a beautiful early March day in 1961, as USS Proteus - 18,000 tons of American might - glided towards her foe.

Oscar winning documentary maker Bryan Fogel’s latest film The Dissident charts the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi Arabia. Here he talks to Writer at Large Neil Mackay about how the repressive regime has tried to undermine his wor...

SCOTS are being warned of a staycation rip off - with concerns about holiday prices doubling in some cases as the UK eases restrictions on travel in the midst of the Covid-19 crisis.

ISLANDERS have blasted the "absolutely unacceptable" cost of lorries delivering vital supplies having to pay nearly five times more than a holidaymaker in a similar sized vehicle to take a ferry.

THEY spend their days tending their flocks in one of the most remote and pristine wildernesses in Scotland. But now female crofters from Melness are aiming to boldly go to the final frontier with their ambitious plans to launch rockets into space....

THE snow covered beauty of one of Scotland's most challenging mountain ranges continue to draw in climbers, skiers and walkers, but for all its stunning views tackling it does not come without risk.

SCOTLAND'S ancient and native woodlands are "constantly and increasingly under threat" and should be given greater legal protection, it has been urged.

by Loudon Temple

Finance Secretary Kate Forbes has called for opposition parties to vote to support the Scottish budget on Tuesday.

The Government’s chief Brexit negotiator Lord Frost has called on Brussels to “shake off any remaining ill will” towards the UK for leaving the bloc as arrangements governing trade to Northern Ireland continue to prove contentious.

Tomorrow the world marks International Women’s Day with this year’s theme, “Choose to Challenge.” In words and pictures Foreign Editor David Pratt looks back at some remarkable women he has met in the most unforgiving places and finds thei...

Music promotor Donald MacLeod has joined The Herald's fantastic team of columnists - and he has a lot to talk about.

Laurence Fox has announced he is campaigning to be the next Mayor of London, standing on a ticket of lifting the lockdown more than a month early.

The knowledge that one day we will die is hardly a revelation. How we’d choose to leave this mortal coil, if given a choice, is another matter entirely.

Data on how many fines Police Scotland have handed out during the pandemic since they were given the power to break up parties.

TRAVEL north from Stirling on the motorway and at the roundabout before Dunblane take the first left onto the B824. The road dips and rises and then the landscape opens up as the Trossachs fill your vision. That’s where you will find the memoria...

Adventure Show presenter Dougie Vipond reveals how he had to tackle his phobia of going off piste for the new series of the BBC Scotland programme.

The Scottish Government has announced a new scheme to accelerate the rollout of 5G, the programme will help identify public buildings where masts can be installed.

The Queen will “ignore” the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s much-anticipated interview with Oprah Winfrey, it has been reported.

A man has been arrested in Dundee in connection with the disappearance of a woman and two children.

There have been no arrests following a large gathering of Rangers supporters in Glasgow.

The second dose of Covid vaccines have been delivered to more than half of care home residents.

Holyrood’s chief executive has stated that a small number of workers in the Scottish Parliament have contracted Covid-19.

There have been 555 new cases of Covid-19 reported in Scotland in the past 24 hours.

Rangers fans have swarmed the streets surrounding Ibrox Stadium this morning.

THE day after Nicola Sturgeon’s marathon filibuster in Holyrood’s Committee Room One an SNP party political broadcast said everything about what really matters in Scottish politics.

Klara and the Sun

PERHAPS, on reflection, the Conservatives should have consulted the seminal work on constitutional theory and practice before demanding the immediate departure of the First Minister.

A large crowd of Rangers supporters have flouted Covid-19 restrictions and gathered outside Ibrox this morning.

As imagined by Brian Beacom

NICOLA Sturgeon is a very big fish swimming in a very small and polluted pond. Let’s face it, we should never have expected her route map out of lockdown to be anything other than different from England’s.

The BBC has released a response following a number of complaints following a report by Sarah Smith on the News at Six.

ANY Budget that is not thoroughly reckless is bound to be a balancing act or, in a more cynical formulation, the Chancellor seeing what he or she can get away with. That was especially true of this week’s announcements by Rishi Sunak.

A GLASGOW restaurateur has voiced frustration about an apparent lack of strategic direction for the city’s hospitality trade, saying “the only way back” is outdoor dining.

THE pandemic is leading to a surge in dementia cases in Scotland amid growing evidence about how Covid-19 'attacks the brain'.

IT sits in its original box in front of me on the table taunting me with its unreachable treasures. Treasures is not too strong a word to me, for the names, the numbers, the shortcuts and passwords to my daily needs. I don’t want to even think o...

BY October last year, at least three quarters of people living in the Brazilian city of Manaus were testing positive for Covid antibodies.

The latest weekly coronavirus figures have been released, highlighting hotspots of Covid-19 and the risk in each neighbourhood.

Downing Street has spent more than £2.6 million on refurbishments to hold White House-style press briefings.

CHANCELLOR Rishi Sunak’s “can’t protect everyone” mantra might as well be “won’t” for many across occupations including health and social care and construction.

IT was an auction sale worthy of a celebratory dram. By the time the hammer fell on what whisky experts had dubbed “the perfect collection” of rare and vintage whiskies, more than £6.6 million had changed hands.

REGARDING Rebecca McQuillan's article ("The Tories overplayed their hand – most Scots still trust Sturgeon", The Herald, March 5), while the Conservatives overplayed their hand on the eve of the First Minister's evidence to the committee, it is com...

No further cases of the new Brazilian coronavirus variant have been identified in Scotland, health officials have said.

A leading Liberal Democrat said the upcoming Holyrood elections will be a “battle for the soul of the country”, as he hit out at Nicola Sturgeon’s “entitled” SNP.