Crime

Police are seeking information after a bench and handrail were damaged.

An Easter Ross man with several convictions for stalking ex-partners and domestic abuse was told he is 'on the knife-edge' of a prison sentence.

She made clear: "Given your previous conviction and the disgraceful background to these offences, only a custodial sentence is appropriate."

Money was paid into the account of a fictitious employee and the cash then split between the pair, Highland court told.

He will appear again in the next eight days.

A new campaign has launched aiming to raise awareness of victims’ rights and peoples’ right to access support if they are affected by crime.

A motorist claimed to police he had smashed his car in Wester Ross after he had swerved to avoid a deer.

A 79-year-old woman was pushed to the floor when she intervened to stop a man viciously assaulting her daughter.

The victim of a vicious Alness assault by a man and a woman was able to identify his attackers leading to their arrest shortly afterwards.

It may be the most romantic day of the year, but police have urged would-be love birds to beware romance scams and scammers

Sickening scammers are targetting grieving families online, a Highland funeral directors has warned.

A Romanian citizen staying in Dingwall claimed he met an Albanian stranger in an Edinburgh bar who paid him £200 a day to sell drugs in the Highlands.

A 30-year-old man has been arrested and charged following the recovery of drugs with a potential street value of at least £200,000 in Alness.

Vandals are being hunted by police after an incident in Alness.

Two Ross-shire men who injured each other with a bottle in a street brawl reconciled when they found themselves in the same wing of Inverness prison.

Police are appealing for information after a theft at The Highland Council Roads Depot in Alness.

County lines drug gangs shipping narcotics into the Highlands sparked a joint police awareness operation in Inverness Railway Station on Thursday.

A new police report shows that the Highlands recorded the highest number of drug driving offences across Scotland in December.

The victim of a vicious Easter Ross assault by a man and a woman was able to identify his attackers leading to their arrest shortly afterwards.

Dingwall Community Council said the response from the community has been 'heart warming'.