Politics

The names of those who have thrown their hats in the ring have been confirmed.

Labour have announced their General Election candidate for the Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross constituency.

She is now surely the most influential political voice to emerge from the Highlands in a generation. But just who is Kate Forbes?

Kate Forbes has been appointed Deputy First Minister by John Swinney, it has been announced.

John Swinney has been crowned the new leader of the SNP after winning the support of potential contender, Highland MSP Kate Forbes.

Failure to bring back a late night train linking Inverness with Ross-shire communities is having an “affect on the city’s night-time economy”.

‘Good riddance to the Greens’ says Lynsey Ward in a letter to the editor.

Lib Dem candidate David Green says he is not hopeful the government will fix ‘its broken relationship with rural Scotland.’

Highland MSP Fergus Ewing is demanding Scotland’s future First Minister makes a concrete pledge on A96 dualling before the summer.

Opposition leader Alasdair Christie has questions and wonders ‘when the new school will be open for children.’

Highland Council plans a £2 billion investment splurge over two decades.

In less than two years Scotland has had three Prime Ministers and will get its third First Minister – without a vote.

Kate Forbes says the SNP must ‘rewin trust’ but is change possible for a party after 17 years in power?

Notice of a by-election for a councillor to represent Tain & Easter Ross has been given by Highland Council.

The Dingwall MSP says ‘the best way to deliver the urgent change Scotland needs is to join with John Swinney’.

Now Ms Forbes is set for her own announcement this afternoon about whether she will run for the top job.

With not a single rural MSP in the Scottish cabinet since Humza Yousaf came to power, we have been forgotten, says our columnist.

The Highland MSP says she is conscious of a ‘groundswell of support’ but she is still ‘weighing everything up’.

The plans are aimed at dealing with at least 12 school and spending millions more on much needed road repairs.

While colleagues rallied after Humza Yousaf’s resignation, opposition politicians have been quick to recount what they see as his failures in office.