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A 20-year-old woman has been arrested and charged following an incident at a Tesco store in Corstorphine, Emergency services were called to the store in...

Each week The City of Edinburgh Council's travel team publishes a list of the city streets where roadworks are planned. The measures listed include road...

Government plans to introduce a new road safety strategy should include cognitive tests for older drivers according to the local MP for Edinburgh South...

A protest was held on Saturday by Stop the War Scotland, with support from the Scottish Trade Union Congress (STUC), Scottish Venezuela Solidarity Campaign and the Scottish Cuba...

More passengers used buses and trams in Edinburgh last year. Some 130 million customer journeys were recorded by Lothian Buses and Edinburgh Trams. The number...

Edinburgh Council may ask The Scottish Government to explore "more progressive" regimes for council tax, if councillors approve a draft response to a government...

A 45-year-old man who sexually assaulted a woman on an Easyjet flight from Naples to Edinburgh has been convicted. Nicola Cristiano was found guilty of...

Edinburgh Zoo’s penguins are enjoying the snowy weather this morning, trying to snap at the snowflakes as they pass by. The wildlife conservation charity’s other animals,...

It’s been a rude awakening after the slumbers of the festive season. The first week of the year has brought heavy snow to the...

Detectives in West Lothian have arrested and charged two men, both aged 33, after cannabis with an estimated street value of up to £780,000...

Edinburgh Council has put out work to tender to refit the Victorian pool in Portobello, at an estimated cost of £7.5million. The building dates from...

Edinburgh and South East Scotland are to receive £37.8 million from the UK Government Local Growth Fund to drive economic growth. This share of the...

Two Edinburgh tower blocks are to be refurbished and upgraded as part of an almost £22 million package of proposed works. Peffermill Court and Craigmillar...

The Scottish Labour Party is promising the "most sophisticated campaign in the history of devolution". In an announcement today the party's co-chair on the Scottish...

Planning applications lodged with the council's planning department up to this week are detailed in the list embedded below. Applications of note include a hotel...

It has been cold enough for Inverleith Pond to freeze over allowing skaters to take to the ice for a game of ice hockey...

Nicola Sturgeon said it is too easy to regard politicians like US President, Donald Trump, as some sort of comedy, but the implications are...

Work will begin on 14 January to resurface the M90 just north of the Queensferry Crossing between junctions 1B, Ferrytoll and 1C, Admiralty. It...

You know it's cold in Edinburgh when the Ross Fountain in Princes Street Gardens freezes over. And today it did just that, amid temperatures...

Staff at STV are due to strike on Wednesday over the compulsory redundancies and plans to cut the north edition of the News at...

Scotland’s participation in the World Cup for the first time since 1998 is set to be marked by a national bank holiday.  Scotland will face...

SNP leader, John Swinney, made a speech to begin the New Year in Glasgow on Monday morning referencing the Burns poem, To a Louse,...

GAIL Porter said she owes her life to her daughter after hitting her lowest point during a spell when she was homeless. The TV presenter,...

Improved training techniques could reduce the number of frontline police officers injured by more than 50% when they are assaulted in the line of...

The Shelter charity shop in Stockbridge took in more than £14,000 on Saturday - on the opening of its annual sale of designer brands. The...

Some 70,000 pupils have missed half of school time, and more than 6,000 have not been to school at all during the last six...

It is now only four months until the Scottish Parliamentary election on 7 May and all the parties have highlighted where they will focus...

A rare 18th century tartan snuff box concealing a secret portrait of Bonnie Prince Charlie has fetched nearly £5,000 at auction. The circular wooden box,...

The final letter written by Mary, Queen of Scots, in the hours before her death, will go on display in Perth later in January...

Feuding gangland villains are "destabilising" overcrowded Scottish jails as "burnt out" prison guards struggle to keep rival gangs apart. The Scottish Prison Service (SPS) warns...