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A failure to spend more money on enforcement against rogue landlords has been criticised by both a campaign group and a councillor. Several groups wanted...

One Edinburgh private hire driver has been suspended from driving for a month. The driver was convicted of drug offences and cut a queue...

Councillors have given permission for a march to take place on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile this summer. During Tuesday’s licensing meeting, councillors considered an application for...

Spring came upon us suddenly. On Saturday it was winter, cold and wet. On Sunday morning, 1 March, there was glorious sunshine, blue skies...

The manager of a short term let has been told to hire a professional management firm for the property after making "uncomfortable" remarks during...

A 21-year-old man has been convicted following an attempted murder in Edinburgh. Joshua Stewart pleaded guilty at the High Court in Glasgow today, Thursday, 5...

A city taxi driver has been warned after being caught smoking in his cab three times and having a confrontation with another driver. Councillors heard...

Two men and a woman have been arrested and charged after drugs with an estimated value of around £364,000 were recovered from a property...

The South East Edinburgh Community Policing Team have won the Community Alcohol Partnerships Excellence in Education Award 2026,.  Officers accepted the award in person at the Houses of...

A former Edinburgh championship boxer who was convicted of domestic abuse after a campaign of harassment against his ex-partner, has been granted a window...

Police Scotland worked alongside the military as part of a planned training exercise on Tuesday. In a repeat of last year, Exercise Kukri Dawn, which...

On Tuesday evening the first full moon of Spring - the Worm Moon - was visible in the night sky above Edinburgh. In some...

The Council Leader, Cllr Jane Meagher has written for The Edinburgh Reporter about the council's decision to increase spending in the capital in the...

A project at Rosslyn Castle to restore and repair parts of the historic building has been shortlisted in Scotland’s national architecture awards. The work to the...

The 23-year-old man arrested yesterday in connection with a disturbance in Edinburgh has now been charged. Around 8.25am on Monday, 2 March, 2026, police, including...

An Edinburgh gangster who was found with £500,000 worth of heroin in his car has been again denied permission to become a landlord. Paul MacAuley...

EXCLUSIVE A Midlothian pub and hotel with a long history of tax dodging and withholding staff wages makes a habit of employing teenagers and then...

That old chestnut about football being “more important than life or death” had never seemed more fatuous... Even briefly discussing some mutual sporting connections with...

A man has been arrested in connection with a disturbance in the Calder Gardens area of Edinburgh, which happened around 8.25am this morning Monday,...

Police officers have surrounded a multi-storey block known as Cobbinshaw House South in Wester Hailes this morning in an incident which has resulted in...

Looking back in history this month with The Old Edinburgh Club. 1st In 1567, placards linking Mary Queen of Scots & Lord Bothwell in...

Police in East Lothian are appealing for information following a two-vehicle crash on the A1 near Torness. The incident took place around 8.50pm on Friday,...

Following US and Israeli airstrikes on Iran overnight, flights in and out of Edinburgh to the Middle East have been cancelled. A Qatar Airways...

This was the fourth party conference held in the past week in Scotland. Labour had said theirs was not really a conference, more of...

Scottish Labour leader, Anas Sarwar, announced that he would "lead the biggest housebuilding revolution in the history of devolution". This depends on him being elected...

Police Scotland has released an image of a boot worn by a woman whose body was recovered off the coast of Iona on 23...

THE City of Edinburgh Council is set to sink millions earned from the tourist tax into a raft of projects focused on cleaning up Edinburgh’s Old Town, which...

Phil Daly explains what you might see in the astronomical sky over Edinburgh and Lothians in the next month. We retain our parade of 6...

The Scottish Labour Party meets on Friday in Paisley for its Spring Conference. Its first task is to digest the result of the Gorton...

Police Scotland's Chief Constable, Jo Farrell, KPM, held the annual Bravery and Excellence Awards on Thursday when she recognised many officers, staff, partners and...