Yousaf’s handling of the end of the Bute House Agreement with the Greens, which precipitated his downfall last year, was ...

A cat had to be euthanised after it was found stuck in an illegal trap with serious injuries. The Scottish SPCA said the pet ...

The Cabinet Secretary for Justice, Angela Constance MSP, has led tributes to Martyn Evans, chair of the Scottish Police ...

In a letter to UK Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall, Paul McLennan stressed the impact in Scotland of the devolved benefit being frozen.

A parliament is only as good as the politicians it attracts. Unfortunately for Holyrood, it mostly attracts the flotsam and ...

But in an interview with the Scotsman podcast The Steamie, John Swinney expressed his worries over a rise in “populism” ahead ...

Scottish Labour leaders seem to put a lot of effort into finding something bad to say about our NHS but somehow never seem able to find ...

Scotland’s former health secretary says he was ‘literally chased down’ after using taxpayer funds to pay off bill of nearly ...

The Old Edinburgh Club draws our attention to what happened in the capital in years and centuries gone by. Day Event 1st: In 1918, Dame Muriel Spark (author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie) was born ...

In 1999 Richard, then-29, was elected to the Scottish Parliament as a regional MSP for North East Scotland, before he became ...

Michael Matheson was forced to step down as Scotland's health secretary last year amid a public outcry over a near £11,000 iPad data roaming bill. In a new interview, the MSP said his opponents had ...