The heads of 50 care providers, rape crisis centres and public sector organisations have signed a Scottish Government letter urging Chancellor Rachel Reeves to take action over National Insurance.

The opening date for the first safer drug consumption room in the UK has been confirmed. Health bosses hope the Glasgow facility, named The Thistle, will save lives by preventing overdose and help ...

The Scottish Green Women’s Declaration has asked Gray to “demonstrate your support” of the recent decision to ban ...

The former first minister described “forces” who “muscled their way” into the debate “to push back rights generally” ...

SNP ministers were warned against looking like they were “running out of ideas” in an internal briefing in 2009, declassified ...

Party season is upon us. And for Scotland’s political parties, what a year it has been. This has been a year effectively split into two by a summer general election which marked a turning point for ...

Former first minister Humza Yousaf will stand down ahead of the next Holyrood election. The SNP MSP said the "time was right" to leave frontline politics in 2026. Elected in 2011, Yousaf entered ...

Former Scottish Labour leader Wendy Alexander and ex-No 10 chief-of-staff Sue Gray are amongst the new peers set to join the House of Lords. The women are amongst the 30 new members nominated by Keir ...

Scottish GPS hardware is “out of date” and “designed for the English market”, according to the Scottish Conservative shadow health secretary Sandesh Gulhane. First Minister John Swinney and Gulhane ...

Scotland's most senior civil servant is to quit his post in the new year, it has been announced. John-Paul Marks, currently permanent secretary to the Scottish Government, has been named as the ...

Labour has clung on to control of City of Edinburgh Council after defeating a takeover bid by the SNP and the Greens. Now with just 10 seats on the 63-member local authority, Labour will hold on to ...