Only a week ago, two new advisory groups were announced, on social care and protecting children from online harm.

Scottish shopkeepers are battling a £170 million shoplifting explosion that is killing businesses. Latest figures show that ...

Revisions to the Scottish budget mean ministers no longer need to raid a fund set up to fund windfarm developments, and will ...

Efforts are continuing to free a whale which has become entangled in a rope at a fish farm off the Isle of Skye. A member of ...

Scotland's onshore contracted by 0.5% in November, according to statistics announced by the chief statistician. This follows ...

John Swinney rejected a call from his civil servants to admit misleading MSPs over the amount of Scotland’s electricity that ...

A parliament is only as good as the politicians it attracts. Unfortunately for Holyrood, it mostly attracts the flotsam and ...

The Waste management company is suing over losses it incurred as a consequence of the cancelled deposit return scheme.

Scottish Government urged Lord Clark to dismiss the legal action, brought by Biffa, arguing that ministers had no ‘duty of ...

VICTORY for John Swinney”. That was how the Daily Record’s political editor characterised the news that the LibDems would be backing ...

The First Minister is expected to make the announcement during a meeting with healthcare officials later on Monday.

LONDON: A Scottish court on Thursday ruled against the development of two oil and gas fields in the North Sea in ...