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With two by-elections coming up at the end of the month, the Edinburgh Greens are working on continuing their period of success in the...

Queen Margaret University (QMU), Edinburgh welcomed Ben Macpherson MSP, the Scottish Government’s Cabinet Minister for Innovation, Technology and Tertiary Education, to campus on Friday meeting staff supporting prospective...

The new baby pygmy hippo at Edinburgh Zoo now has a name. She is to be called Piper. Keepers picked the name after the new arrival was...

Tesco Bank is proposing to leave its Edinburgh HQ next year, and Edinburgh Napier University is reportedly looking at the site as a possible replacement for...

Edinburgh's Transport Convener is taking a grip of an active travel project in Edinburgh which has been dormant for at least a decade. Ten years...

Edinburgh has been ranked as the fourth best city in the world and the best in the UK for young people to live and...

It’s August, so Edinburgh is packed with six noisy festivals and twice as many people as in peace time.   There’s the official International Festival...

Following a meeting between the Deputy First Minister and the Edinburgh Council Leader at the site of the Princes Street blaze, there has been...

A split has emerged between the City of Edinburgh Council and The Scottish Government over funding to support the council and businesses in the capital following...

Staff at the National Galleries of Scotland will strike on Friday, according to members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCSU). Staff say that there...

The City of Edinburgh Council leader met with Deputy First Minister, Jenny Gilruth on Wednesday 5 August as a package of £5 million funding...

On Wednesday the Deputy First Minister, Jenny Gilruth, met with Edinburgh Council leader, Jane Meagher at 109 Princes Street, the site of the fire...

EDINBURGH Zoo has welcomed a pygmy hippo calf just hours after publicly announcing the mother's pregnancy the same day. Keepers at the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland's Edinburgh...

The fire which caused extensive damage to the former Debenhams building on Princes Street has led to part of the street remaining closed even...

A unique artist's design for a Royal Bank of Scotland £20 note featuring the Forth Bridges that was never issued has fetched £750 at...

The Old Lady of Leven Street opens to the public after major restoration works. The curtain rises today on the newly levelled stage at Edinburgh...

A by-election is being held in the Southside/Newington ward on 3 September. The position on The City of Edinburgh Council has been created by former...

A by-election is being held in the Portobello/Craigmillar ward on 3 September. The position on the City of Edinburgh Council has been created by...

Work to repair the 19th century North Bridge took much longer, and was more expensive, than anticipated. Councillors agreed to invest in the structure...

The council's travel team has published a list of the latest roadworks and street closures in the capital over the next week. Every area of...

When it comes to the history of the capital, The Old Edinburgh Club have it covered and each month they suggest for us some...

The invited audience on Friday evening were entertained with a show which opened with Nicola Benedetti, CBE, doing what she does best. The internationally...

Inside the newly refurbished King's Theatre there is more accessibility, with ambition and a packed programme to look forward to. Accessibility sits right at the...

THE SCOTTISH Government has suggested that financial support could be on the way for Edinburgh Council as they continue to deal with the fall-out...

EDINBURGH Zoo has confirmed its resident pygmy hippo is pregnant with a new calf expected to arrive in August. The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) revealed the news about...

It’s one of the wonders of the world.  A few days ago, I watched the great white birds circling overhead as our boat approached...

A tennis trophy won by Edinburgh-born Harold Mahony, the first Scottish-born Wimbledon winner 117 years before Sir Andy Murray, has fetched nearly £5,000 at...

The council say it remains impossible to move trams past the site of the Princes Street fire which took place in the early hours...

A partial Solar eclipse, the Perseid meteor shower, a planetary parade anda selenelion Lunar eclipse grace our August sky. The Sun passes from Cancer (The...

EDINBURGH'S "cones" craze has taken another twist, after someone planted a traffic cone (nearly) at the top of one of the capital's most imposing monuments. The culprit is thought...