Niall at the mural in Portree painted by his father Donnie. Photograph: Willie Urquhart BY DANIEL CULLEN Portree’s Birch has been named one of the world’s 100 best coffee shops for 2026 at CoffeeFest ...

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 ...

Louis Barabbas, Caroline Bruns and Katy Lawrence get busy with some heavy lifting ahead of this Saturday's opening of ...

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 ...

Pupils from Broadford Primary School, from nursery and Sgoil Àraich through to P7, took to the stage last week to perform ‘The Wizards of Ness’ – a pantomime-style adaptation of… ...

Heading to the USA - Highland Dancers from Dannsairean an Eilein Sgitheanaich, Lacey Morgan, Ami MacKinnon, Emma Campbell, ...

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 ...

Ryan Dziadowic, originally from Poland but now living in Grimsay, looks at the traditional Gaelic concept of dùthchas and what it means in the modern world….. Dùthchas – a Gaelic word which carries so ...

The people of Minginish in Skye came together at the end of last month to mark the centenary of the events which brought their unique community into existence. Over three days an exhibition recalled ...

In 2006, work started on building the first wind farm on Skye. On moorland belonging to MacLeod Estate, a few miles south east of Dunvegan, the original Ben Aketil project started generating ...

DANIEL CULLEN documents his own experiences of housing issues in Skye, and reflects on a series of conversations with local young people which would inspire a stage play…. In my job as a theatre-maker ...