In the early 2000s you were three times more likely to be assaulted in Scotland than in the US. But when the Scottish authorities started looking at violent crime as a public health problem, levels ...

The walk covers a varied range of landownership from community ownership to venture-capital owned places. Dozens of campaigners for land justice are set to walk across Scotland for their cause. The ...

The Daily Record has brought together a round-up of Scotland's worst criminals jailed or due to be sentenced this week.

Community leaders criticised the Scottish government for describing the incident as "contained", despite flames spreading ...

Helicopter deployed as firefighters spend third day tackling Cairngorms wildfire - Campsites and the ski resort in the area ...

Police Scotland said it has charged 59 men and warned another 206 in the blitz which involved more than 150 patrols.

Cairngorms wildfire: Aviemore no longer in ‘immediately affected area’ - The fire started late on Wednesday morning.

Waste no tears on Amnesty International UK, the global human rights charity that is currently under fire for attacking ...

Members of Scotland's Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, which has a chapter in Edinburgh, will join more than 50,000 participants ...

SNP ministers are also proposing changing the definition of a short-term prisoner from four to five years, allowing more inmates to be released early.

Graeme McGarry travelled to Liverpool with a Rangers delegation for an emotional event that raises awareness of the scourge of tragedy ...

COPS are struggling to clean up the streets of Scotland’s largest city despite new powers to boot out drug dealers, drunks ...