The Scottish Government

There was a second meeting of a Ministerial Working Group convened to examine building and fire safety regulatory frameworks this week. The meeting was chaired...

Transforming services to ensure people with dementia receive the support they need at all ages and stages of the illness is at the centre...

Rail users across a number of central belt routes are set to benefit from the latest fleet upgrades. The latest upgraded class 156 diesel train,...

Over 200 projects working to promote equality and address discrimination will benefit from more than £20m investment over the next year. More than £5m will...

The Scottish Government intends to introduce legislation for a soft opt out system of organ and tissue donation. Public Health Minister Aileen Campbell has confirmed...

Funding to support food and drink businesses work with each other to come up with innovative ways to sell their products has been launched...

New figures showing an increase in education spend by local authorities have been welcomed by Deputy First Minister John Swinney. The latest provisional out-turn and...

An estimated 2,600 extra nursing and midwifery training places will be created over the next four years as part of wide-ranging measures to support...

Plans by Australian financial services company Computershare to open a new technology centre of excellence in Edinburgh, creating 300 jobs, have been welcomed by...

Health Secretary Shona Robison has announced £2.85m funding to help improve cancer services so that patients are seen more quickly. The investment will be directed...

A bill to replace Air Passenger Duty in Scotland was passed by the Scottish Parliament last week. The Air Departure Tax (Scotland) Bill sets the...

Applications for a degree course offering exisiting graduates a new route into medicine will open in September, Health Secretary Shona Robison has confirmed. The four-year...

A fund to incentivise film production in Scotland has generated £17.5m for the economy returning £10 for every pound spent, Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop...

Daren Fitzhenry is to be nominated by the Scottish Parliament as the new Scottish Information Commissioner next week.  He will succeed Rosemary Agnew who was...

The First Minister will be up early this morning to get out to Ingliston to speak to farmers visiting the Royal Highland Show. She is...

The Scottish Government has announced that all information released  in response to Freedom of Information (FOI) requests will be published online from 3 July...

The Scottish Government says that Scotland is making progress tackling air pollution, according to a new report launched today. In the last 18 months 40...

An Edinburgh primary school has received an award from the First Minister in a nationwide competition to encourage Scottish children to foster a lifelong...

Today the First Minister has sent a letter to Theresa May the Prime Minister urging her to think about the Scottish and Welsh interests...

The First Minister's trip to the US interested The Edinburgh Reporter, particularly the second half of it, as she arrived in New York when...

Following much speculation in the last few months, Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP who is running the Liberal Democrats Scottish campaign during the General Election, has...

A new law which makes if an offence for someone to make alcohol available to a child or young person to drink in public comes...

At the beginning of April I was in New York for Tartan Week and had the opportunity of interviewing the First Minister, the Rt...

Several hundred cyclist gathered today (Saturday) in the Meadows to take part in the 2017 Pedal on Parliament. The event was policed fairly discretely by...

The Scottish Government has announced that Scotland’s latest Innovation and Investment Hub has officially opened in London. More than 450 businesses have registered their interest...

The Scottish Government has released new figures confirming that the number of people who had an organ transplant from a deceased donor in the last year...

The First Minister started her busy day yesterday at New York University's Tisch School of the Performing Arts where she met some Scottish ballet...

At an event in downtown New York last night organised by Scottish Development International,  the First Minister Nicola Sturgeon confirmed that Scottish food and...

44 jobs created or safeguarded with inward investment The First Minister  has welcomed an announcement today from three American firms who have promised investment of £6.3...

US tech firm Xilinx Inc. is to invest £3.8 million in its specialist research centre in Edinburgh, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon confirmed today. The centre...