Labour’s Sarah Boyack has said she will stand down at next year’s Holyrood election. Boyack, who was first elected to the Scottish Parliament in 1999 and was a member of Donald Dewar’s first cabinet, ...

Sarwar still has a mountain to climb if he is to become the next first minister and his greatest obstacle, it seems, is his ...

Scotland’s first black professor Sir Geoff Palmer has died, aged 85. He held the role of chancellor and professor emeritus at ...

Labour's Davy Russell is the antithesis of the party careerists who go from university to party comms, to candidate, to ...

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch will today call for new oil and gas licences to be granted in the North Sea as she ...

Mairi McAllan has become the new housing secretary as John Swinney undertakes a slight reshuffle of his ministerial team.

Douglas Ross has refused a call to leave a key Scottish Parliament committee after dialling in from the Caribbean. Ross, the ...

The spending review is a major moment for the UK Government as Reeves sets out departmental budgets for the next few ...

Rachel Reeves announced the UK Government’s spending review today. The chancellor made a raft of promises worth £52bn for Scotland by the end of 2029. Along with funding for Northern Ireland and Wales ...

An Edinburgh health tech firm has launched a platform that can pinpoint risk genes linked to life-limiting diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s 98 per cent faster than traditional industry ...