Lord Bracadale will not recuse himself as chair of the Sheku Bayoh inquiry, he has announced. The decision follows calls for him to go after it surfaced that he had met with the family of Bayoh on ...

Sir George Reid chaired parliamentary debates between 2003 and 2007, having already had a long career as a journalist ...

The gap between public spending in Scotland and taxes raised here has grown to £26.5bn amid a fall in North Sea revenue, new ...

Almost half of all Scots who had a stroke last year did not get access to a standard of treatment deemed necessary for ...

Jackie Baillie said Nicola Sturgeon “chose to use her time in office as first minister by dividing our country rather ...

Nicola Sturgeon has said she should have “paused” divisive gender recognition reforms when she was first minister. Sturgeon ...

Absence levels at Scottish councils have hit a new high as staff shortages and demand for services put extra strain on the ...

The Scottish Parliament faces major change next year as a swathe of established politicians leave office.

Former SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford is giving “careful consideration” to running for Holyrood next year. The news ...

An independent Aberdeen councillor has been suspended for four months for breaching the code of code. Jennifer Stewart, who represents the city’s Hazlehead, Queen's Cross and Countesswells ward, was ...

Kate Forbes is to stand down at the next election, it has been announced. The deputy first minister said she had made the decision to spend more time with family. By the time of the election next May, ...