Up to six new stores for nuclear waste are planned for Scotland in a move which will create a new confrontation between the Scottish government and Westminster.

Scotland's first food policy, which promises to boost the industry and promote healthy eating, will be announced by the government this week.

The time-honoured civil liberties of the court system in Scotland are under threat, lawyers fear, claiming reforms introduced last month have handed too much power to the police and procurator fiscal service.

Wendy Alexander's campaign team registered an illegal donation in the name of a Glasgow-based company at the eleventh hour after realising they might have already broken electoral law.

The SNP government's first budget has suffered a setback after the Greens made it clear they could not support the Nationalists' plan.

Jim Callaghan's Labour government considered a referendum on Scottish independence as part of its constitutional reform package in the 1970s.

A pioneering mental health screening programme set up in the wake of the London bombings has treated more than 200 people for problems such as post-traumatic stress disorder.

The number of female sex workers arrested in Lothian and Borders has increased dramatically since the abolition of tolerance zones ... yet not one male sex worker has been arrested in the area for six years.