News archive

News published June 2014

  • Seashore scramble at Merkinch local nature reserve

    Published 23 Jun 2014

    People living in the Merkinch area of Inverness are being invited to come along to their local nature reserve next month to lend a hand and improve their local environment.

  • Thing Sea Trail voyagers at Dingwall

    Published 23 Jun 2014

    Last Friday the M/V Nybakk, the last remaining wooden hulled ocean-going fishing boat in Norway, was moored in Inverness in the Muirton Basin Lock

  • Gaelic to the fore for far North Schools

    Published 23 Jun 2014

    Mount Pleasant Primary School’s P1 Gaelic Medium class entered the Mod for the first time, and they took part in the Action Song competition which provided fun entertainment to the whole audience.

  • Gaelic Learning in Thurso

    Published 23 Jun 2014

    A Gaelic Class has started up in Thurso, which is specifically aimed for the parents of Gaelic Medium children in both pre-school and primary provision.

  • High Life Highland Libraries Best in Scotland

    Published 20 Jun 2014

    Results published for the last financial year have shown that High Life Highland libraries are the best performing service in the country in terms of the number of visits to libraries per 1000 of the population.

  • North Kessock toilets on southbound A9 to re-open for Summer

    Published 19 Jun 2014

    Transport Scotland is to re-open the toilet block at North Kessock on the southbound A9 for the summer period.

  • Hands across the earth as six nations come together in Lochalsh

    Published 19 Jun 2014

    On Monday (16 June) seventeen individuals from six countries met with community groups and projects across Lochalsh.

  • Service Point consultation begins on the Council budget blog

    Published 18 Jun 2014

    The fourth topic on the Council’s Budget Blog goes live on Thursday 19 June - how can we organise our customer service provision (Service Points) in the future?

  • Focus on Highland recycling centres during national Recycle Week

    visiting recycling centre Published 18 Jun 2014

    This week is national Recycle Week which gives us all the perfect opportunity to think how we can do a little bit more to reduce our waste and ‘Recycle for Highland’! This year The Highland Council’s focus for Recycle Week is Recycling Centres and reducing the amount of waste that householders landfill at the sites.

  • ScotlandsPeople finds a home in the Highlands

    ScotlandsPeople network inverness Published 17 Jun 2014

    The National Records of Scotland archive and genealogy website ‘ScotlandsPeople’ is now available to people in the Highlands with the launch of a new local family history centre in Inverness.