The City of Edinburgh Council has invested more than £25 million in new heavy goods vehicles and welfare buses as part of its wider £56.8 million Fleet Asset Management Plan for the period 2023-2029.

Ahead of The City of Edinburgh Council setting its budget for the coming year, the city’s third sector is urging investment in vital care warning that social services are at risk of collapse. The ...

Council tenants in East Lothian are set to see rent go up by more than £5 a week from April as the local authority bids to ...

Edinburgh councillors are exploring spending £600,000 to build new public toilets by Portobello Beach amid complaints over ...

A £2 million programme of work to renovate a busy car park at a popular city beach spot is being considered by the council The Cramond Beach car park is currently an unpaved lot, with no ground ...

West Lothian has the lowest number of empty council homes in years after a targeted programme which saw more than a thousand homes re-let in this financial year. The council has 251 mainstream ...

Councillors will be asked to approve a 3.5% rent increase when they meet to discuss the budget next week. The majority of responses to a recent consultation exercise supported the increase which will ...

Eskvale Hockey Club, based in Bonnyrigg, Midlothian, scooped the Inclusion prize, sponsored by the University of Glasgow, when Scottish Hockey held their annual awards night at the Old Fruitmarket, ...

Scotland’s most common and striking songbirds, the blackbird is disappearing from the nation’s parks and gardens. The Scottish Terrestrial Breeding Bird report, published by NatureScot, shows that ...

East Lothian Councillors are set to approve a 10% council tax rise next week despite additional funding from Scottish Government. A cross party budget paper due to go to elected members for final ...

Around 50 people gathered recently to discuss what action Pilmeny Development Project (PDP) can take against the threatened ...

The organisation behind one of Scotland’s booming travel trends wants to recruit Gen Z board members — to help “put the youth ...