Willie Urquhart. The lifesaving Lucky2BHere charity based in Portree have established a shield in memory of their founder, ...

Bryn, Owen and Hughie on the shores of Loch Broom. By Kirsty Watt Kirsty Watt spoke to Ullapool man Bryn Higgs, who, along ...

Hard rockers BY DANIEL CULLEN A new alternative music festival on Skye has been described as a “roaring success” after ...

Heading from Plockton. BY KIRSTY WATT ‘Art in a Bus’, Scotland’s travelling art gallery, brought the ‘wow’ factor to ...

An Tìr, An Cànan, ‘S na Daoine ...

Ryan Dziadowic, originally from Poland but now living in Grimsay, looks at the traditional Gaelic concept of dùthchas and what it means in the modern world….. Dùthchas – a Gaelic word which carries so ...

Folklorist Frances Wilkins on the beauty of a Gaelic Christmas hymn and the tales of emigration which lie behind it…… Emigration, whether forced or voluntary, by ...

A story appeared in the national press last week revealing that the Isle of Skye was the most joyful tourism experience in Scotland. Fittingly, this conclusion was reached through research which used ...

Barra and Benbecula hosted a mini-Olympics last week as five young cousins battled the wild weather to raise an amazing £3,000 for families half a world away. The cousins travelled more than 60 ...

LIAM ALASTAIR CROUSE on what the recordings on the Tobar an Dualchais website tell us about how the environment can shape cultural practice….. Like many coastal areas in the Highlands and Islands of ...

BY JACKIE MACKENZIE Maree Todd The political landscape in the Highlands and Islands has seen a major shift after Thursday's ...

Gaelic psalmody is a beautiful, haunting form of music which is unique to the Scots Gaelic speaking world, now mostly within West Highlands and Western Isles and the Gaelic diaspora in our major ...