Regional News

A healthy dog and dead puppy were dumped in a lay-by in Aberdeenshire, the Scottish SPCA says.

Police are hunting two men after an armed robbery involving a gun at a Aberdeen shop.

Staff at eight universities in Scotland are taking industrial action in a row over their pensions.

A man who set fire to three business properties in the Orkney island of Sanday is jailed for two years.

An expert tells a murder trial he believes it was likely a car crash in which a woman died was staged.

A man is charged after a 79-year-old man is stabbed in an Aberdeen sheltered housing complex.

A by-election following by the death of long-serving Aberdeen councillor Ron Clark will be held on 19 May.

Aberdeen FC's new stadium takes a step forward after Scottish ministers decided against calling it in.

Tickets are being offered for a BBC Radio Scotland hustings programme in Aberdeen ahead of the elections.

MPs have rejected a call for the control of the coastguard service in Scotland to be transferred to Holyrood.

Scotland's hotels saw improved visitor numbers at the start of the year, according to new figures.

More than half of firms in the oil and gas sector warn that skill shortages are their number one challenge, a survey finds.

A crane driver tells a FAI into the deaths of three people that safety checks were a box ticking exercise.

A woman allegedly killed in a crash by her husband may have had traces of sedative in her body, a trial hears.

The death of a dog in Aberdeenshire may be linked to a dog-fighting ring, the Scottish SPCA says.

Lessons in how to get onto a bike and pedal are being given to officers from Grampian Police.

The controversial issue of the forced dumping of fish at sea will be the focus of a meeting in Brussels.

US, Canadian and French aircraft are to fly from an RAF station before it shuts as an air base as part of defence cuts.

Part of a former paper mill in Aberdeenshire which closed in 2009 has been sold, it is announced.

An illegal tobacco "factory" is uncovered in a house in Aberdeen, HM Revenue and Customs says.