Alex Cole-Hamilton has defended the process that led to Christine Jardine stepping down as Edinburgh West MP, insisting he never heard her age or gender raised.

Police Scotland has handed out just 25 fixed penalty notices for graffiti since January 2024, totalling £1,000, of which only £600 has been collected.

SNP grassroots members have reacted with fury to plans to give Scottish Greens co-leader Gillian Mackay a platform at the party's Aberdeen conference.

Alex Cole-Hamilton says his ten-strong group holds unrivalled leverage over John Swinney's budget, sets four firm demands.

Scotland's £586m taxpayer guarantee underpinning Sanjeev Gupta's Highland metals empire has been quietly moved to a secretive offshore company registered in Jersey.

Workers at Sanjeev Gupta's Lochaber aluminium smelter have not received employer or employee pension contributions since July, The Herald can reveal.

Trade unions used Labour's UK conference to demand the party acknowledge its own role in Glasgow's equal pay failure, as delegates voted…

Lord Foulkes of Cumnock urges Labour to resist calls to scrap the triple lock ahead of the budget, warning that the UK state pension is already…

Scottish Forestry insists a £2.3m woodland grant to a Gupta-linked company remains valid even as ministers seek a court interdict against GFG…

Michael Marra has beaten Joe Fagan to lead a party reduced to just 17 Holyrood seats, vowing to build a completely different Scottish Labour from…

Michael Marra, in his first press conference as Scottish Labour leader, demands UK Government approval for Rosebank and Jackdaw and an early end to…

McGill's Buses, owned by billionaire brothers Sandy and James Easdale, was found to have ordered an unjustified drug test, withheld evidence…

GFG Alliance has confirmed its Dalzell plant is sourcing steel from Kazakhstan while pension payments remain stuck and allegations of theft, missing…

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde invoked emergency procurement powers to spend £134,000 refurbishing senior managers' offices, bypassing…

Ben Macpherson has resigned as a Scottish Government minister, saying he needs to prioritise his mental and physical wellbeing.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies says extra UK Government funding and a larger-than-expected underspend ease immediate pressure on Finance Secretary…

The news on the Scottish shipyard, which has had noisy detractors, is very sad

Glasgow City Council has approved a sweeping pay and grading overhaul designed to end decades of equal pay discrimination but while 63 of 24,000…

Scottish ministers are taking Sanjeev Gupta's under-pressure GFG Alliance to court after discovering "unauthorised transactions" at…

Scottish ministers are taking Sanjeev Gupta's under-pressure GFG Alliance to court after discovering "unauthorised transactions" at…

Scottish LabourLeadership 2026 Individual PLP/SPLP nominations for the Scottish Labour Leadership are as follows: MP/MSP Constituency/Region Nomination Irshad Ahmed MSP Edinburgh and Lothians East Joe...