Highlands

FW2040, the Masterplan and Delivery Programme for Fort William and Lochaber, has taken a significant step forward with the appointment of its first dedicated project manager. Martin Culbertson has been appointed and will co-ordinate its overall delivery, help support and develop individual projects,

Councillors will this week be asked to approve two Highlands bids for the UK Levelling Up Fund. The projects are North Coast 500 and Portree Harbour.

A second course will be built, alongside new property, retail and restaurant offerings Castle Stuart Golf Links near Inverness has been bought by Canadian resort developer Cabot who plans to create a second course that will play around the site’s 400 year-old castle.

A new Highland town near Inverness has laid the final brick of its 250th home, as it enters the second phase of development after securing £2 million from Bank of Scotland.

Planning permission has now been granted for a new active travel route that will connect the National Cycle Network in Inverness between Cradlehall Business Park and Inverness Campus. The works will involve upgrading the current earth-beaten track into a wider, tarmac-surfaced route for active trave

Dunfermline-based Deanestor has delivered a second hospital fit-out project in the Highlands.

The Highland Council and its local partners have been successful in securing grant funding under the Scottish Government's Strategic Timber Transport Scheme for repair works to be carried out along the U1992 Evanton to Swordale road.

More than £2.5 billion of new private sector investment in the UK’s vital green energy sector is at stake as ministers choose the locations for two Scottish Green Freeports this summer, according to Opportunity Cromarty Firth (OCF), the consortium bidding to win the status for the S

National Trust for Scotland (NTS) has submitted a retrospective planning application for five storage units at the Culloden Battlefield Visitor Centre.

Plans for the Coire Glas hydro pumped storage scheme have taken a significant step forward with the receipt of tenders for the project’s main construction works. Six shortlisted tenderers from around the world are taking part in the Invitation To Tender (ITT) process to conduct the civil engin

Highland Council has approved plans for the development of an £11 million Rural and Veterinary Innovation Centre for SRUC on the Inverness campus.

The traditional 'topping out' ceremony has taken place at The Cairn Distillery at Grantown-on-Spey. Hugh MacKay, 1st year apprentice from AB Masonry, and Mhairi Winters, distillery manager, did the honours of placing a bottle of whisky in a cavity in the stonework.

The Inner House of the Court of Session has refused an appeal by a whisky distillery against a judge’s decision not to grant interdict in a trade mark infringement case brought against another company proposing to develop a retail site in a village near the distillery. Tomatin Distillery Compa

NatureScot is in advanced discussions with a potential new owner for Kinloch Castle on the Isle of Rum, a property the nature agency has owned since 1957. Subject to requisite approvals being obtained, the Castle would be placed into a charitable trust, the aims of which are to conserve the building

Sustainable biomass supplier and timber products specialist GMG Energy has made a strategic purchase of a substantial swathe of forest in the far north-east of Scotland to protect future supply and increase its resilience to market shocks. The company, which originated on a farm in the Strath of Hal