Tory MSP Jeremy Balfour has said he is quitting the party and will sit as an independent at Holyrood. The Lothian MSP said he ...

Social workers in Scotland should be given pay awards to match other parts of the public sector, a professional body has said ...

The comments made by Scottish Labour’s health spokesperson come after new figures released by Public Health Scotland ...

The risk of dying from cancer in Scotland has reached a record low – even as the number of deaths from the disease have ...

The SNP may eventually write off part of a £100,000 loan from former chief executive Peter Murrell, the party’s latest accounts show. And the camper van purchased under Murrell is now worth a fraction ...

The Fife councillor, 43, was found guilty of crimes against the vulnerable girl following a trial at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court ...

The South Scotland MSP is now listed on the Scottish Parliament website as an Independent, having sat as a Scottish ...

Alex Salmond “benefited” from the leak of details about a sexual misconduct investigation because it allowed him to portray ...

Sir George Reid chaired parliamentary debates between 2003 and 2007, having already had a long career as a journalist ...

Former Tory MSP Jamie Greene has not been selected as the lead candidate for the Liberal Democrats in the West of Scotland ...

The gap between public spending in Scotland and taxes raised here has grown to £26.5bn amid a fall in North Sea revenue, new ...

Nicola Sturgeon has said she should have “paused” divisive gender recognition reforms when she was first minister. Sturgeon ...