Mairi McAllan

The Pianodrome is among the finalists at the Creative Edinburgh Awards

Celebrating the people who make our capital city so creative - Lorna Slater

Pupils at Barrhead High, in East Renfrewshire, celebrate their outstanding exam results.

Scotland's exam results 'incredibly positive' as pass rates increase

Cabinet Secretary with Barratt team

Cabinet Secretary for Housing visits Edinburgh housing development to mark Scott...

Iain Bruce and his wife in their East Lothian home

Homeowners in Edinburgh and Lothians urged to check eligibility for energy-savin...

Housing Secretary Mairi McAllan (Picture:Andrew Milligan/PA Wire)

Edinburgh shares in £500,000 to tackle rough sleeping

Energy bills for both households and businesses are to rise yet again in January Picture: Michael Gillen

Time for some common sense in the fight against energy bill hikes - Sue Webber

Kerry Macintosh with campaigners from across Scotland outside the Scottish Parliament on June 18, ahead of their petition going before MSPs.

Housing minister to meet RAAC homeowners next week

The SNP is sticking to its target of 2045 to reduce carbon emissions to net zero (Picture: William Edwards/Getty Images)

SNP blowing in the wind - Sue Webber

Larke Adger, chief executive of West Granton Housing Co-operative (left) and David Mills, chief operating officer (right) with Housing Secretary Màiri McAllan.

New £4m fund to prevent homelessness launched in West Granton

Housing Secretary Mairi McAllan (Picture:Andrew Milligan/PA Wire)

Net zero boast always was posturing tosh - John McLellan

Motorists were stranded in their vehicles on the Edinburgh City Bypass

Call for full review of City Bypass after severe flooding

Angus Robertson in Berlin promoting Scottish renewables

Scotland's energy transition taking off with number of major investments - Angus...

A TfL Oyster card.

Plans mean Oyster card-style travel could finally reach Edinburgh

Cllr Chas Booth

'Bolder policies could still save SNP-Green agreement'

King Charles III makes his opening address at the World Climate Action Summit at Cop28 in Dubai, calling on world leaders and climate delegates for "transform-ational action" to combat climate change. Picture: Chris Jackson/PA Wire

Why Scotland has taken a high profile at COP28 Dubai summit - Angus Robertson

Tram works in progress in St Andrew Square in 2012 - the project is back on the agenda at the City Chambers this week. Picture: Neil Hanna.

Tram failings should not be swept under carpet
Tram project failings may seem a long time ago, but they are not something to be swept under carpet
Ian Swanson

Edinburgh trams works on Princes Street: the project was years late and millions over budget when it was finally completed in 2014. Picture: Neil Hanna.

'Ministers won't accept any blame over trams fiasco'

It sounds obscure, but the "Dalmeny chord" was a crucial stretch of rail which was never built. It would have linked the Edinburgh-Glasgow line to the Fife line and was a key part of the £1 billion Edinburgh-Glasgow rail improvement programme. It would have meant six trains an hour between the two cities, journey times cut to 35 minutes and trains calling at the new Edinburgh Gateway station (pictured) where passengers could switch to a tram to reach the airport.
But in 2012 the budget was slashed to £650m, the Dalmeny chord was dropped, frequency remained at four trains an hour, journeys at 40 minutes and passengers from Glasgow heading for Edinburgh airport still had to travel to Haymarket and out again.

Scottish Government
Edinburgh Gateway Station to view it's progress as it nears completion.

Diverted HS2 cash could help fund Edinburgh station - Sue Webber

Lord Hardie has finally published his report, which criticises the city council, tram firm TIE and the Scottish Government for "a litany of avoidable failures".

Trams are part of our future, but have been badly handled - Ian Murray

More than 35,000 sewage-related items were picked off Scottish shorelines during beach cleans last year, according to the Marine Conservation Society

Scotland falls behind on monitoring sewage dumping - Alex Cole-Hamilton

António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, addresses the COP26 summit in Glasgow in 2021

Net-zero targets and climate justice define Scotland’s roadmap to easing the cli...

Nicola Sturgeon: Former First Minister pulls out of Edinburgh Science Festival event as police continue to investigate her husband

Nicola Sturgeon has pulled out of an Edinburgh Science Festival event

Scotland's new Hunting with Dogs Bill has been acclaimed by animal rights groups (Picture: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Scotland finally has a real ban on fox hunting – Steve Cardownie

Edinburgh's St James Quarter shopping centre

Shopping break - your views online

Mairi McAllan’s Hunting with Dogs Bill aims to close loopholes around the hunting of wild mammals with hounds

Bid to close fox hunting loopholes - your views online

The Minister for Environment and Land Reform, Mairi McAllan (left), met with Linlithgow Community Development Trust members.

Minister for Environment and Land Reform visits Linlithgow

Arriving at Leadburn Community Woodland from left to right: Iain Laidlaw (Scottish Forestry), Christine Grahame (local MSP), Neil Macdonald, Chris Crawford and Wendy Cunningham (all Friends of Leadburn Community Woodland committee) and Màiri McAllan (Minister for Environment, Biodiversity & Land Reform).

Ministerial visit to Leadburn woodland
Friends of Leadburn Community Woodland welcomed Environment Minister Màiri McAllan MSP and Midlothian South MSP Christine Grahame for a summer visit.
Kevin Quinn

Scots are being warned not to waste water as an 'early warning' of possible summer shortages is issued. Picture: Getty Images

Water emergency: Scottish Government outlines support to combat shortages

Lower Largo Beach has been classed as one of Scotland's officially designated Bathing Waters. Picture: Lisa Ferguson

Splash: Fife nudist beach among two new bathing waters in Scotland

Experts have warned there could be a higher risk of toxic algal blooms developing in Lochs and reservoirs across Scotland as climate change drives up water temperatures -- this could restrict their use for drinking water water supplies and leisure activities and as a safe habitat for wildlife. Picture: John Devlin

In hot water: Health fears as Scotland’s lochs warm due to climate change

Safer now: The new Bill bans hunting with dogs in Scotland.
Picture: Loic Venance/AFP/Getty Images

Greens unhappy at new Scottish fox hunting Bill to

Demand for allotments has grown since the start of the pandemic. Picture: Greg Macvean.

Let's find more space for allotments, says MSP

Flooding in July turned roads into rivers

'Capital misses out on flood cash because of unfair funding'

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