News archive
News published November 2016
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Council leaders welcome sale of Fort William aluminium smelter
Published 23 Nov 2016Highland Council leaders have welcomed the announcement today of the sale of Fort William’s aluminium smelter by Rio Tinto to GFG Alliance.
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Highland Council Website achieves Gold Standard for digital accessibility
Published 23 Nov 2016Highland Council’s website is the only council website in the UK to have been awarded a gold standard Certificate of Accreditation from the Digital Accessibility Centre.
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SIUTHAD! GO ON! wins event category in the Scottish Daily record Gaelic Awards
Published 21 Nov 2016
As part of the Daily Record's drive to celebrate all aspects of Scottish culture, the 2016 National Gaelic Awards took place in Glasgow with the headline sponsors Bòrd na Gàidhlig.
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Cash for Caithness groups after public vote
Published 21 Nov 2016
Local people cast their votes this past weekend on Saturday 19th November 2016 at a Highland Council participatory budgeting event held in the Pulteney Centre in Wick.
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Funding for 3rd sector culture and leisure groups decided.
Published 18 Nov 2016Highland Council’s third sector culture and leisure funding until 2018/19 has been agreed by Members of the Education, Children and Adult Services Committee.
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Bringing the past alive
Published 18 Nov 2016Bringing the past alive – Archaeologists ’ visit to local primary school near the new Inverness West Link Road
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Housing officer showing compassion is Council’s Employee of the Year
Published 18 Nov 2016Gail Ward, a Housing Policy officer with The Highland Council has been named Employee of the Year for the care and compassion she has shown in welcoming Syrian refugees to the Highlands and her work to ease the impact Welfare Reform has had on individuals.
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Partners clamp down on illegal shellfish operations in Highland
Published 17 Nov 2016A multi-agency enforcement operation took place in the Lochaber area focussed on the illegality arising from and associated with the gathering of shellfish
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Active travel to Newtonmore Primary receives £25K boost
Published 17 Nov 2016Members of The Highland Council’s Badenoch and Strathspey Area Committee have agreed funding for an active travel project which will make the area around Newtonmore Primary School safer.
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Badenoch and Strathspey winter roads plan approved
Published 17 Nov 2016Motorists, cyclists and pedestrians are urged to be aware of council gritting plans in their area for the winter.
Published 21 Nov 2016
Published 21 Nov 2016