First Minister John Swinney has vowed to make health service improvements a "top priority" in this week's budget. However, ...

The IFS said the extra £1.5bn day-to-day resource funding had significantly improved the short-term funding outlook for ...

Judges have retired to consider their verdict in a landmark case about the legal definition of “woman”. The UK’s highest ...

When MSPs recently voted to scrap annual targets for reducing carbon emissions, Sarah Boyack was on the other side of ...

After promising to provide music tuition - no strings attached - some of Scotland's councils are now changing their tune ...

All pensioners in Scotland will be given help with winter fuel bills next year, the Scottish Government has confirmed. Plans ...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves ended universal entitlement to the Winter Fuel Payment, worth up to £300, in a move backed by MPs ...

Highland women’s aid groups claim the awarding of such a contract could mean their refuges will be forced to close. They say ...

The Scottish Government remains committed to fully dualling the A96 between Inverness and Aberdeen, the transport secretary ...

John Swinney has apologised to the woman raped by footballer David Goodwillie over a delay to a decision on allowing a ...

He added: “Opposition for opposition's sake is all well and good where governments have comfortable majorities, but put ...

John Swinney has defended Neil Gray’s use of a ministerial car to see a film premier, claiming it was “relevant” to the ...