Edinburgh council agrees Scotland’s first visitor levy charge at online meeting - Visitors staying in the city will have to pay a 5% fee per night, capped at seven nights.

Plans to transfer two areas of West Lothian to the Airdrie constituency for the next Scottish Parliament elections have been scrapped after an outcry from residents.

Ireland has been hit with record wind gusts of 114 miles (183 kilometers) an hour as a winter storm batters the country and northern parts of the U.K. Schools have been closed, trains halted and hundreds of flights canceled in the Republic of Ireland,

The co-leader of the Scottish Greens says Edinburgh's tourist tax will make the city 'even more beautiful and welcoming'.

Several attractions and businesses in Edinburgh have announced they will remain closed on Saturday, as the clean-up from the storm continues.

Voters in Scotland and Wales could soon apply online for postal votes in Holyrood and Senedd elections - thanks to Edinburgh North & Leith Labour MP Tracy Gilbert.

A dozen councils have said all schools will close and police have warned people not to travel in the areas affected by a rare red “danger to life” high wind weather warning issued for parts of Scotland on Friday.

The Record previously told how three-month-old kit Roxie died after choking on her own vomit from "stress" caused by fireworks, as explosions boomed across the city throughout the evening. Her mother Ginger also died unexpectedly just five days earlier, which was suspected to have been linked to fireworks.

SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn was given permission by MPs to introduce the Women’s State Pension age (Ombudsman report and compensation scheme) Bill to the House of Commons for further consideration by 105 votes to zero, majority 105.

Both Labour and the Conservatives criticised John Swinney for ‘rehashing old promises’ and ‘not delivering’ progress for Scotland's NHS.

The National Library of Scotland will celebrate its 100th birthday with a full year long birthday programme of events. National Librarian Amina Shah said: “A century ago, we were established in the spirit of egalitarianism,

It really is time that everyone in Scotland makes clear that they’ve had enough of being treated as second-class citizens, which is how Reeves is treating them. She needs to be sent back to accounts, and Scotland needs to make its own way in the world. That is the only way it can succeed.