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The Kyleside Wool Fest: celebrating Scottish wool
St Duthac Book and Arts Festival Time Again!
Sutherland's regeneration push needs an AI rework rule
Community Leaders wanted for Sutherland's Pride in Place Programme Neighbourhood Board
Things really cooking At St Duthac Book and Arts Festival
Open Letter: Scotland should not be left behind on local news
News
Sutherland's regeneration push needs an AI rework rule
Behavioural scientist Dr. Gleb Tsipursky argues that local businesses should change how they judge AI: a tool that drafts faster is not productive if staff spend the savings checking, correcting and repairing its work.
Community Leaders wanted for Sutherland's Pride in Place Programme Neighbourhood Board
Things really cooking At St Duthac Book and Arts Festival
Open Letter: Scotland should not be left behind on local news
Kyle of Sutherland Gala Weekend programme is now available for sale
Croick Church reopens
Highlands and Islands Climate Festival 2026
Heritage
The Invercharron Gathering and the unique Kenny's Games
Third part of the History of Highland Games in and around the Kyle of Sutherland area written by Alasdair MacDonald.
A New England lumberjacks' 'invasion'
History of farming in Ardgay
Victorian-era Highland Games
The day the flood swept away the first Bonar Bridge
An 80th Anniversary reflection
History of the Highland Games
Nature
The Power Shift
Communities were promised a share of Scotland’s wind boom. Some are being sold short
Paul Dobson reports that over 20 wind farms are failing to pay an agreed amount to locals. This is an investigative piece originally co-published by The Ferret and the Sunday National, part of the Power Shift series.
A strategy to utilise Scotland’s wind wealth
Community-centred energy policy would solve Sutherland renewables tensions
Locked out by design: what stands between the Local Power Plan and the communities it’s meant to deliver for
Who gets to decide about Scotland’s national parks?
Musselburgh firm shows how renewable energy can support local communities
A Hebridean Boom Town is on the horizon
Place-names
The hill, the hero and his dog
Gaelic, Norse, Brittonic? A look into the history
and origins of place names in and around our area
Carn Bhren, also Carn Bhrain, or Carn Breathainn as recorded by W J Watson in 1904, is a 635-metre (2,085 ft) summit in Ardgay. Its name most likely means ‘cairn
Stones
Fairies and malicious spirits
Faces and facial features
Croick, Croich and antlers
Out-of-place names
