DCT members, Tim and Angela Wallis, Mali MacLennan, Briony Anderson, Mandy Boswell, Kenny Munro and John MacKinnon with councillors John Finlayson and Drew Millar. Photograph: Willie Urquhart. BY DANI ...

Niall at the mural in Portree painted by his father Donnie. Photograph: Willie Urquhart BY DANIEL CULLEN Portree’s Birch has ...

A new £2.78 million Shannon class RNLI lifeboat, destined for the Portree station on Skye, has been officially launched into the water for the first time. The state-of-the-art vessel, which… ...

Louis Barabbas, Caroline Bruns and Katy Lawrence get busy with some heavy lifting ahead of this Saturday's opening of Waystone Books in Dunvegan. Photograph: Willie Urquhart BY DANIEL CULLEN A new ind ...

Glenbrittle BY JACKIE MACKENZIE Youth hostels in Skye and Wester Ross are among those featured in a release of archive images by Hostelling Scotland to mark its 95th anniversary. The photographs chart ...

A new £2.78 million Shannon class RNLI lifeboat, destined for the Portree station on Skye, has been officially launched into the water for the first time. The state-of-the-art vessel, which… ...

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 ...

Kate Forbes MSP and local councillor John Finlayson are joined by local children and various parties involved in the new school as the first turf is cut. Photograph: Willie Urquhart. BY KIRSTY WATT It ...

Dr John Shaw is one of the worlds’ foremost scholars of Gaelic oral traditions and is an Honorary Fellow in Celtic and Scottish Studies at Edinburgh University. Following encouragement from John Lorne ...

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 ...

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 ...