Local government must cover a combined budget shortfall of £647m this financial year, with those costs partially met through ...

Local government must cover a combined budget shortfall of £647m this financial year, with those costs partially met through ...

A disused housing estate cost a Scottish council £3m over 20 years, MPs have been told. Derelict Clune Park was dubbed ...

Scotland’s chief constable Jo Farrell “faces a stark choice of cannibalising the service” to deliver pay rises above ...

Many Labour MPs believe the decision to restrict the payments last year has played a big part in the party's sharp fall ...

Sitting in the spring sunshine overlooking the manicured lawn of St Salvator’s quad – perhaps the most recognisable ...

Prime Minister Keir Starmer will today set out plans to reform Britain's immigration system, pledging that “migration ...

Scotland’s “best future” lies with independence and being back in the European Union, foreign affairs secretary Angus ...

The member’s bill tabled by Liberal Democrat MSP Liam McArthur would allow terminally ill adults to seek medical help ...

The Wikimedia Foundation – the charity behind the online encyclopaedia – is seeking a judicial review of parts of the ...

John Swinney will vote against plans to introduce assisted dying provisions in Scotland. The bill, brought forward by Lib Dem ...

West coast ferry services are to be focused on a "public service model" after ministers awarded the contract to publicly-owned operator CalMac Ferries.