Nearly 20,000 civil servants are planning a Scotland-only "summer of discontent" after the breakdown of crucial pay talks in Edinburgh.

A Labour councillor has been subjected to a vitriolic online "hate campaign" run by anonymous bloggers and a failed Conservative candidate.

Maintaining and developing the Trident nuclear warheads stationed on the Clyde is going to cost the British taxpayer a massive £18.5bn over 13 years, according to the first official breakdown of defence nuclear spending.

Scottish Police are not recording the costs of policing Orange and Republican marches , despite a government working group having asked them to do so for more than a year.

A senior minister has resigned from the Freemasons because he felt that membership of the organisation would leave him open to criticism.

Health Minister Nicola Sturgeon is planning to close a legal loophole that allows private companies to run GP practices.

The American billionaire property developer, Donald Trump, has ridden roughshod over a warning from his own scientific adviser that his controversial plans for a golf complex in Aberdeenshire could ruin the environment.