Cramped Inverness rail services connecting with Edinburgh, Glasgow, Elgin and Aberdeen are to increase in capacity by 45% this year – providing much-needed extra space for frustrated passengers. pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/highla…

Eyesore concrete blocks in the heart of Inverness are to be bought by the council as part of the castle redevelopment plans – paving the way to create a new tourism “gateway to the Highlands.” pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/invern…

Nine of Scotland’s top 15 destinations on the popular online hospitality service ‘Airbnb’ are in the Highlands and the north-east, bringing millions of pounds to local economies. pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/highla…

Inverness taxi drivers have threatened strike action after joining ranks with a national trade union pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/invern…

A man was viciously attacked twice within an hour over a misplaced mobile phone, a trial heard. pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/invern…

A planning application for 48 affordable homes in Inverness has been met with anger and suspicion by locals. buff.ly/2v8OZFk

Ground penetrating radar may have discovered a mass grave of Highlanders massacred after the battle of Culloden. buff.ly/2vf7Rmh

A woman rescued from a fire told police she wanted to kill herself and her husband because she hated him. buff.ly/2vo7Zjm

An Inverness man who had “a fixation for burning his partners with cigarettes” escaped a jail sentence yesterday for a catalogue of domestic assaults. buff.ly/2K0qhdP

A father-of-11 who brutally attacked a woman because he could not find a matching pair of socks was yesterday jailed for 38 months. pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/highla…

A man convicted of murdering a police officer from Inverness before dismembering his body and trying to dissolve it in a bath of acid made a ligature a few months before he was found hanging in his cell. pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/invern…

An application to build a detached house just outside Inverness from which to manage a proposed alpaca farm was rejected yesterday by Highland councillors, as “speculative”. pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/invern…

NHS Highland has apologises to a patient whose quality of life “significantly deteriorated” after an “avoidable” surgical error. pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/highla…

A senior NHS Highland pharmacist jetted off to Salt Lake City four times in four months to learn about “quality improvement”, which included training for a scheme to cut patient travel to Inverness. pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/highla…

A Highland League footballer played in a charity match to honour his dead team-mate then got involved in a drunken brawl with a group of teenagers. buff.ly/2IrMkfz

A “good Samaritan” had part of his nose bitten off after he acted to help two women he thought he saw in trouble in a car. pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/invern…

A young father accused of killing his three-week-old baby daughter in Inverness is to appear at the High Court next month – almost exactly a year after the tragedy. pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/invern…

A popular and much-loved Highland sports coach was yesterday left “overwhelmed and honoured” at learning he is to be handed the Freedom of Inverness. buff.ly/2IJNnsj

Plans have been unveiled for a major riverside artwork in Inverness – to replace the controversial “tilting pier” project - which will create a “circular amphitheatre to frame the River Ness. buff.ly/2sbbncC

Inverness is to become Scotland’s centre of excellence in researching Lyme Disease – a tick-borne condition which can lead to a variety of serious illnesses. buff.ly/2koJQAL