Dumfries & Borders

A food processing firm is to create 120 jobs by taking over the former Pinneys of Scotland seafood plant that closed last year.

Scottish secretary David Mundell is facing calls to resign from MPs across the political spectrum after failing to vote with the UK Government in its latest Brexit defeat in the Commons.

Snow and ice could cause travel disruption tomorrow across much of Scotland, the Met Office has warned.

Storm Freya is set to hit Scotland with strong winds on Sunday (March 3), bringing travel disruption and possibly dangerous conditions.

More than 200 sheep have died after a lorry transporting the animals overturned.

The head of a disabled passengers campaign group has quit in protest at ScotRail’s “highly inappropriate” overhaul of its trains on the scenic West Highland Line.

Populations of red squirrels in southern Scotland are under threat due to growing numbers of their grey cousins, according to a new survey.

THE youths of Jedburgh were running hell for leather today as one of Scotland’s oldest annual events, Fastern’s E’en Hand Ba’, got under way in the town centre.

A Scots brother and sister aged 11 and nine are starring in a UK-wide marketing campaign aimed at raising funds to find a cure for the disease that killed their father.

A community group from Dumfries has launched an urgent crowdfunding appeal to buy a building on the town’s high street.

More snow is expected to fall across parts of Scotland tonight with freezing conditions overnight continuing across much of the country until the weekend.

The owners of what is claimed to be Scotland’s smallest pub have launched a haggis-flavoured a gin in time for Burns Night.

There’s no point in having unobstructed sightlines if there’s no one permitted to enjoy the view. This is the current undesired scenario at Netherdale, site of the country’s only category A-list grandstand – complete with its once novel architectural flourish of no pillars.

A teenage girl has been arrested after an alleged knife attack on a boy at school.

A young rider has died after falling from a horse at a racing stables in Scotland’s south.

A bakery from Dumfries has won the 20th World Championship Scotch Pie Award.