Scotland’s prison population remains near record levels at around 8,500 despite emergency early release measures. Inside HMP ...

Drug abuse could be costing Scotland almost £6 billion a year, a new report has warned. Ministers have been told that the “price of inaction is too high to ignore” as research by the Social Market ...

Officers have arrested a suspect after a man was found seriously injured in an Edinburgh home on Tuesday. Emergency services were called to a property on Wardlaw Street at around 2.40pm following ...

The Scottish Fire and Rescue Services sent three engines to extinguish the flames. One appliance remains in attendance, but the blaze has been put out. The road was blocked off by officers following ...

More than a dozen Lush employees at the company’s largest Scottish store are at risk of redundancy, as the company aims to make £250,000 in savings. The cosmetics retailer, which operates nine stores ...

Scotland's busiest railway station has fully reopened after a fire in a nearby building led to the station’s closure for several days.

Parole boards will have to consider if killers have failed to disclose the whereabouts of victims remains when considering if they should be freed ...

A company involved in sausage production has been fined £48,000 after around 1.8m litres of wastewater seeped into a burn.

Aaron Strachan raped the 15-year-old in an Edinburgh 'basement lair' after marching her through the streets of the capital.

A man has been fined £800 for severely neglecting his dog after it died “writhing in agony”. The Scottish SPCA were alerted ...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has been urged by the SNP not to “leave citizens in the cold” over rising bills ahead of an ...

Reform UK’s Scottish leader has apologised and denied he is homophobic after it emerged he made a joke about George Michael while giving a speech in 2018. Malcolm Offord is said to have told the joke ...