Hermione Lamond and Donald Jack with the paintings BY KIRSTY WATT Bonnie Prince Charlie has returned to Elgol – in the form of two specially commissioned paintings donated last week to the community d ...

Willie Urquhart. BY KIRSTY WATT “The Plock really wins, it’s just a mosaic of habitats!” Dr James Merryweather told the Free ...

Neil McRae BY JACKIE MACKENZIE A Skye man is currently undertaking a trek in the Cairngorms as part of a big fundraiser to ...

A founding member of the John Muir Trust – a major landowner on Skye – has been expelled from the board of trustees after raising concerns about the charity’s governance. Denis Mollison, former chair ...

Harbour manager Lachie Gillies hands over keys to new tenant Corran Coffee. A new community harbour building in north Skye is proving an aromatic hit with local people and visitors. Coffee beans ...

The Skye community have started rallying to help a beloved Broadford coffee shop which is set to lose its home as their leased property hits the market. Broadford’s Coffee Bothy, formerly Creelers, ...

A couple visiting from Germany were delighted to sample a nip of Torabhaig Traigh from guide Domhnall Angaidh MacIllinnein. Photograph: Willie Urquhart. South Skye’s Torafest 2026 brewed up another ...

A Broadford teenager is helping to raise awareness of Tourette syndrome after receiving a diagnosis that finally provided answers to years of unexplained tics, misunderstandings and challenges both in ...

S3 pupils with their prize. Photography: Willie Urquhart. The lifesaving Lucky2BHere charity based in Portree have established a shield in memory of their founder, Ross Cowie, who passed away in ...

The Free Press were among the festival-goers who descended on the Lump in Portree in their thousands last weekend as Skye Live returned for another hugely successful three-day celebration of ...

Mrs Jessie Donaldson and Louise Lankston reminisce about a Carbost Primary School project that began in 1998, when the former was head teacher and the latter one of her pupils. In 1998, the European ...

More than 150 young people from across Skye and Lochalsh took part in the annual Fèis an Earraich at Portree High School from Monday 6th to Friday 10th April. A week’s tuition in traditional Gaelic ...