FIRST Minister John Swinney has declined to back his former Cabinet colleague Fergus Ewing amid questions about whether he can stand for the SNP ...

LABOUR’S Health Secretary has “set alarm bells ringing” after backing private, for-profit investment in the NHS, the SNP have warned.

Instead of talking to lawyers, managers consulted human rights lead who said Dr Beth Upton had a ‘right’ to access single-sex spaces ...

A report by council officials shows the shortfall for 2025/26 is over £49m, however some cuts to reduce the gap have already ...

Scottish secretary Ian Murray was speaking in the wake of an employment tribunal brought by a nurse who had to share a ...

TWO suspects are accused of the racist attempted murder of a man. Thomas Hannah, 46, and John McGuinness, 42, are charged with carrying out the attack at a property in Nairn in the Highlands on ...

The majority of Inverclyde Council’s elected members will not have a direct say on who the local authority’s next chief executive is ...

HUNDREDS of potentially dangerous prisoners will be let out of jail tomorrow as new SNP laws around early release come into force. Around 400 criminals serving sentences of four years or less will ...

Local authorities will meet this month to vote on council tax rises affecting their residents. The SNP Government has ...

The highly respected SNP politician was hailed as “a shining example of how to be an effective public servant” and “a man who put great value on the ideas of duty and loyalty.” Mr Vettraino was ...

The SNP said last week that it would make the Council Tax system "fairer" 18 years after promising to scrap it altogether.

Oh dear. Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar will have been hoping for some positive headlines this weekend, as his party’s ...