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

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

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 ...

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

Scottish ministers have greenlit one of the world's largest offshore wind farms. SSE-owned Berwick Bank will be so big it ...

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 ...

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

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

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

Kate Forbes is to stand down at the next election, it has been announced. The deputy first minister said she had made the ...

A human rights expert whose appointment was opposed by trans rights groups has been named as the new chair of the ...