A company that sold a major Highland port for an undisclosed sum to a Japanese firm received over £30m of taxpayers’ money – including £10m just a few months ahead of the sale. Global Energy – a ...

Climate pollution from the burning of rubbish in Scotland has almost doubled in five years, according to new data, with some ...

A bid to release beavers in the Highlands was delayed after intensive lobbying by farmers and landowners prompted an intervention by the local MSP and deputy first minister, Kate Forbes, The Ferret ...

A far right group has been condemned for targeting young men after one of its teenage activists posted racist, misogynistic and Islamophobic messages on social media. The schoolboy – who we are not ...

“He works on the night shift and is probably asleep,” says an elderly woman as she walks past us and opens the door to her ground floor flat. She’s referring to her neighbour across the landing whose ...

Reform UK’s Richard Tice boasted putting solar panels on his company’s properties could help tenants with their bills – despite publicly claiming people are being “ripped off” by the renewables ...

Nuclear sites, King Charles’ childhood school and a famous battlefield were among nearly 1,000 sites across Scotland which broke environmental rules in the past two years. The Dounreay nuclear ...

When Glasgow showman Jimmy Stringfellow feels weary, he calls to mind his ancestors of centuries past. Traditionally, he says, as we stand in the family’s fairground yard where their chalet homes ...

A Scottish firm has given financial backing to an AI weapons start-up founded by a US tech billionaire who has links to Donald Trump. Edinburgh-based investment firm, Baillie Gifford, was one of a ...

Radioactive air pollution from the nuclear weapons plant at Coulport, on the Clyde, has more than doubled over the last six years, prompting cancer warnings from campaigners. Emissions of the ...

An Angus community councillor and member of the far right Homeland Party has been accused of “abhorrent racism” for arguing that black politicians and footballers are “clearly not” British. David ...

The Ministry of Defence has blocked the Scottish Government’s environmental watchdog from releasing information about radioactive pollution from the Clyde nuclear bomb bases for the last nine years.