NHS Lanarkshire is urging residents to use A&E services only for life or limb threatening emergencies, helping ensure those who need urgent care receive it quickly.

The new American owners of Balbegno Castle near Fettercairn have been given the green light to carry out vital repair work at the historic building.

New figures published by VisitScotland show that more people from across Great Britain have visited Scotland this year, compared to the same period in 2024. 

Hemlock root was spotted at sporadic points around Ardrishaig and Lochgilphead, along the shores of Loch Gilp.

It will “take years” to clear up the damage from storms that rocked the north east of Scotland four years ago, the National Trust for Scotland has said as it reflected on the progress made to restore felled trees.

A Glasgow architectural firm has been appointed to lead the restoration of Girvan's historic bandstand.

A Troon pub has announced that it is set to permanently close over the festive period.

Council refuse workers have had their pay docked in the run up to Christmas after walking out of a training course.

An independent think tank has released what it calls “deeply concerning data” which shows that less than 40% of S4 pupils passed National 5 maths in 2025.

The costs of raising a child in 2025 have been revealed by a new report which warns many families are still struggling to afford to buy essentials for their children.

Officers executed a warrant at an address on Balintore Street in the Shettleston area of the city on Sunday.

The CEO of one of the UK's leading mutuals says financial services 'remains overly complex, largely due to the tax treatment of different savings vehicles'

Nearly 1,000 new homes are to be built at a landmark brownfield site on the edge of a Scottish city.

Scotland’s teachers are being pushed to “breaking point”, the Scottish Conservatives have said as figures revealed that almost 600,000 teaching days have been lost to mental health absences in the last five years.

Edinburgh’s fried chicken fans are in for a festive treat, as KFC opens a new restaurant at Fountain Park Leisure Centre just in time for Christmas.

A celebrity chef is ending a long-standing partnership with a renowned Scottish hotel.

A man has died in hospital following a serious crash in Fife which claimed the life of a woman on Friday night.

The UK energy minister has said he is confident Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar will become First Minister after the Holyrood elections in May next year.

Thousands of people descended on Stonehenge this morning to welcome the dawn on the winter solstice.

People have been asked to avoid an area of a Fife town after emergency services were scrambled to deal with a vehicle on fire.

Public inquiries in Scotland should have agreed budgets and timescales amid fears over soaring costs, a Holyrood committee has said.

First Minister John Swinney has urged Scots to get outdoors this festive season as he unveiled his self-taken Christmas card photo.

A man has been killed in a crash in the Scottish Borders.

The Coastguard has said they have called off their search after responding to an incident involving an unoccupied vessel that ran aground off Inverbervie Beach in Aberdeenshire.

Student activists have walked out of classes, gone on hunger strike, occupied buildings, thrown paint on walls, and blocked roads.

John Muir Trust CEO, David Balharry, talks about why we need wild places - as well as the turmoil and controversy under his leadership

As the year draws to a close Foreign Editor David Pratt runs the rule over the global stories and themes likely to make the headlines in the coming year  

Labour and SNP ministers have been called on to ensure everyone eligible for an allowance to help heat their homes should receive the payment automatically.

A Labour MSP will quit Holyrood after a damaging row over her continued friendship with a convicted sex offender, it is being reported.

Every winter for more than 35 years Scotland’s avalanche hunters have spent mornings scouring snow-covered slopes in a quest to make the difference between life or death for countless climbers.

After a bruising period that has seen Grangemouth's refinery stop processing crude oil with the loss of 400 jobs, was some festive cheer in the form of a £150 million package of support for part of the sprawling petrochemicals site

The Coastguard has confirmed it is responding to an incident involving an unoccupied vessel that has run aground off Inverbervie Beach in Aberdeenshire.

The Rt Rev Rosie Frew has composed a special Christmas reflection for Herald readers. She talks to our Writer at Large about the need to love those on the margins of society

Visitors are being offered one last chance to experience an award-winning after-dark event at Edinburgh Castle

A trove of documents, including court records, footage and images, was uploaded on Friday

The road was closed to allow inquiries to be carried out and was reopened at around 6.30am on Saturday.

Engineers are working to repair a burst water main in Fife which has cut off supplies to around 1,000 homes.

Travellers say the family had placed the body into a wheelchair and pushed her to the rear of the aircraft

Fast food giant Wendy's has opened its first Scottish restaurant in Linwood, and it is already proving popular.

Police Scotland has seized drugs worth almost £14 million in the run-up to Christmas, marking one of the force’s most successful weeks for recoveries.

A murder investigation has been launched following the death of a 40-year-old man in Alloa.

Sandie Peggie said her life had been turned “upside down” by the row, but maintained she was not a “bigot.”

Being an unpaid carer is isolating and unrelenting, according to Lesley MacCulloch, a full-time carer for her 82-year-old mother with dementia.

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Parents took a local council to Scotland’s highest court after funding for a ‘life-changing’ social care programme for individuals with autism was withdrawn suddenly.

Scotland’s state-owned ferry fiasco shipyard is facing a fresh crisis after its own board admitted uncertainty over future work and Scottish Government support is putting its future at risk.

Charities have warned the right to a break for unpaid carers could fall into Scotland's implementation gap without additional funding.

Charities have written to the Scottish Government to demand money allocated to mitigate the two-child benefit cap is used to increase the Scottish Child Payment to £40.

SNP MSP Elena Whitham has described Holyrood as a 'hostile place' as she revealed she had always assumed she would stand again after she was first elected in 2021.

The number of new homes in a key sector in Scotland is at the lowest since records began