The Latest Breaking News from the Scottish Government

SCOTTISH ministers are to push ahead with a full ban on snares – despite pleas from gamekeepers to bring in a licensing scheme to allow use of the…

PROTESTERS who climbed onto the Scottish Parliament have accused the Government of being "complicit" in Gaza's suffering.

The government says it has handed over all messages it held.

MORE than two-thirds of LGBT+ young people living in rural Scotland do not feel welcome in their local area, a new report has suggested.

THE SNP president has called out a Tory peer who said Scotland “always wanted” to implement different Covid rules.

SCOTLAND will be represented at COP28 in the United Arab Emirates at the end of the month.

BORIS Johnson "wanted to be injected with Covid-19 on television" to calm public fears, the Covid Inquiry has heard.

The UK government plans to impose tougher sentences on those convicted of serious crimes, it announced via this year’s king’s speech at the state opening of parliament. Political pundits reacting to the speech on the BBC immediately questioned the rationale behind potentially putting more people in prison, when UK prisons…

THE Scottish Government has delayed the publication of its new plan to tackle climate change.