Fife, Strathclyde and the Highlands are due to see gale-force winds and snow showers as the country enters an “Arctic trough”.

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

THE arrival of the Easter weekend coincides with something of a crossroads in Scotland's progress out of the pandemic.

NHS patients are being put at risk of “avoidable harm”and may be missing vital cancer screening tests because sex and gender are not recorded separately, a study warns.

THE rate of reopening the Scottish islands’ tourism industry in comparison to the mainland is a critical factor in the survival of hundreds of businesses from Arran to Orkney.

Scotland's councils have been accused of failing children after figures revealed fewer than one per cent of pupils with additional needs have a legally-binding education support plan in place.

THE SCOTTISH Greens have set out their strategy for tackling Scotland’s drugs death crisis – pledging an end to policies that “clog up our prisons with victims”.

DILAPIDATED and forgotten, it is one of the few buildings left standing from the famous Empire Exhibition held at Glasgow's Bellahouston Park in 1938.

By Scott Wright

IT has been 14 long weeks but Scotland is just days away from being able to take back control of their unruly locks and overgrown gardens.

A nationwide appeal to Scotland’s artist community to come forward to work on The Herald garden of remembrance has taken a step further.

REPEATEDLY Boris Johnston and his ministers have been found by independent inquiries and courts of law to have either broken the Ministerial Code, misled the House or acted unlawfully; all of which have serious consequences in relation to people's tr...

You might have an had an Andy Warhol Campbell’s soup can poster on your wall as a student or a admired a Banksy mural, but being able to bid for an original print at auction might seem like a daunting prospect.

"I WANTED to talk some more about the God thing," the comedian Frank Skinner announced on Tuesday night's episode of Free Thinking on Radio 3. Appropriately enough for the week leading up to Easter, the programme had a religious theme, with Lauren...

THE WORLD'S largest ocean monitoring programme is to be launched across UK Overseas Territories.

Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, San Diego, 1959-1965, Louis Kahn

Hay fever sufferers have been warned to expect high pollen levels over Easter Weekend as lockdown rules ease in Scotland.

By Ian McConnell

THE nanny state endorsed by Boris Johnson, counterproductive Covid policies and animal testing were the topics raised by columnists in the newspapers.

HISTORY matters and so, as we begin another election campaign, my mind drifts back inexorably to an earlier contest, to the UK election of 1997 which brought Tony Blair to UK power and led to the creation of Scotland’s devolved parliament.

Fidelma Cook

COULD Meghan Markle really be considering running for President of the United States? Her unofficial biographer claims embarking on a new life in the White House is on the cards for the Duchess of Sussex with planning already underway to make her ...

In this Covid Holy Week the suffering and death of Jesus have never felt more meaningful; nor have his choices. In the final weeks of his human life our saviour chose to be with prostitutes; drinkers and assorted social misfits: those whom society...

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The US Capitol building is in lockdown after a vehicle reportedly slammed into the security barriers surrounding the complex.

Doppio Malto is to open its first UK restaurant in Glasgow.

By Ian McConnell

THE leader of a party that wants to scrap Holyrood has claimed it has an "excellent chance" of securing MSPs in the upcoming election.

NICOLA Sturgeon has suggested Alex Salmond's new party does not meet the necessary criteria to take part in televised debates.

A planning application has been lodged for a “rooftop garden sanctuary” at the India Buildings’ Virgin Hotel on Victoria Street and Cowgate.

NICOLA Sturgeon has warned Alex Salmond he cannot "bulldoze" his way to independence as she accused him of hindering the cause.

DOUGLAS Ross has called on unionists from other political parties to back the Tories on the Holyrood list ballot – as a campaign is launched to sure up support for the Union.

THE SCOTTISH Tories have unveiled their blueprint for a “skills revolution” in a bid to prevent young Scots becoming a “lost generation” during the pandemic.

LABOUR has accused the SNP of a “pitiful” support package to businesses hit by the pandemic – claiming that only £10 million of the £1 billion promised is new money.

A 20 year-old-man has been arrested in connection with a murder of a father in Glasgow.

DOUGLAS Ross is still taking a threat to unionism posed by Alex Salmond’s Alba Party seriously despite the first poll including the former first minister’s new project putting support at just three per cent.

BBC Four fans are a small but noisy band. So, the news that the BBC is to cease commissioning new programmes for the channel and shift to archival programming as part of its ongoing cuts prompted the inevitable outpouring of disgust and dismay on ...

The current coronavirus lockdown has “got to be the last” as another one would be “devastating”, Anas Sarwar has said.

DOUGLAS Ross has insisted his is not taking his party finishing in second place at May’s election “for granted” amid a threat from growing Labour support as he pointed to voters flocking to support the Conservatives four years ago to show th...

FOR the past year there has been an almost daily count of deaths from Covid-19. These grew as the pandemic progressed and just under 10,000 families across Scotland have lost loved ones to this disease. But other causes of death have not disappear...

LEGEND has it, that on leaving a boring party, comedian Groucho Marx, quipped to the host “I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn’t it.”

Scottish Government statistics released today show that 414 new positive coronavirus tests have been recorded since Thursday

THE CONSERVATIVES must "distance" from a councillor who suggested a £500 payment to self-isolate was acting as an incentive for people to spread coronavirus, Labour has said.

The stay-at-home order across Scotland has been lifted

JUST a few weeks ago, May’s Holyrood election was shaping up to be an SNP landslide. Nicola Sturgeon looked set to be not so much re-elected as anointed, like a benign empress on course effortlessly to crush the puny rebel barons.

Temperatures are expected to plummet over the Easter weekend with gale force winds and snow forecast for parts of Scotland.

There was intense speculation for most of the week that the Western Isles SNP MP would be among the SNP politicians making the switch to Alex Salmond’s new party

DOUGLAS Ross has called on SNP minister to approve plans to allow football fans into Hampden for the Euros this summer.

The legal team for the family of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi say they will now seek leave to appeal directly to the UK Supreme Court