Businesses want peatland restoration to be given the same 'offsetting' status as tree planting.

The internationally-renowned Fair Isle research centre in Shetland will not now reopen this year.

Donald Cameron announces he is standing down and will become a minister in the Scotland Office.

The Japanese macaque was filmed helping himself from a bird feeder in Kincraig.

Highland Council says the lifeline ferry, which has been out of action for a year, will return on 23 October.

Ticket prices on the Northern Isles, Clyde and Hebrides routes will stay the same until next March.

NatureScot says it killed the deer to protect vulnerable habitats around Loch Choire Estate.

NatureScot, a government agency, said the Highland estate's owner failed to control deer numbers.