After promising to provide music tuition - no strings attached - some of Scotland's councils are now changing their tune ...

Vacant and derelict land, some of it contaminated, covers around 850 hectares, and, despite the city’s nickname of the ‘dear ...

John Swinney has apologised to the woman raped by footballer David Goodwillie over a delay to a decision on allowing a ...

The Scottish Government remains committed to fully dualling the A96 between Inverness and Aberdeen, the transport secretary ...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves ended universal entitlement to the Winter Fuel Payment, worth up to £300, in a move backed by MPs ...

All pensioners in Scotland will be given help with winter fuel bills next year, the Scottish Government has confirmed. Plans ...

Judges have retired to consider their verdict in a landmark case about the legal definition of “woman”. The UK’s highest ...

I've got a voice that only a hoover should hear. But there's a group of us in parliament that sometimes go out to do karaoke. I understand the joke is that my karaoke song is Tequila by The Champs ...

Scotland has a long history of pumped-storage hydropower, but there has been a 40 year wait in the UK for a new major ...

John Swinney has defended Neil Gray’s use of a ministerial car to see a film premier, claiming it was “relevant” to the ...

He added: “Opposition for opposition's sake is all well and good where governments have comfortable majorities, but put ...

First Minister John Swinney will pledge to bring policy-making closer to communities in a major speech ahead of next week’s ...