David McLennan has been elected as a councillor in West Lothian, taking the seat from Scottish Labour.

Nigel Farage said his party's success in the Whitburn and Blackburn by-election had "sent a huge message to the Scottish ...

Novelist Allan Massie ponders how the birthplace of Adam Smith and Walter Scott declined into a depressing culture of ...

Former Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond has died at age 69, Scotland's regional government announced Saturday. The longtime leader of the Scottish independence movement died while attending an ...

(Bloomberg) -- The disarray engulfing the Scottish National Party — for years one of Britain’s most effective and dominant political parties — will likely have far-reaching implications ahead of a ...

Nicola Sturgeon says she's surprisingly shy, but she's not afraid to say what she thinks about president Trump.

Holyrood is back for the final parliamentary term before next year's Scottish elections. It feels like politics has been locked into campaign mode since before last summer's general election, but we ...

Alex Salmond, the former first minister of Scotland who for decades championed Scotland's independence from the U.K., has died. He was 69. Salmond, who was a divisive figure in British politics and ...

Alex Salmond, former Scottish First Minister, former leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) and then leader of the Alba Party died suddenly last week, having just completed a speech to the ...

John Swinney is reviewing whether he and his government will continue to use social media app X, after raising concerns about its owner's "malign influence" on the public debate. The SNP was an early ...

Keir Starmer is basking in a "seismic" win for his party in the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election with the result suggesting a shifting in the power balance in Scotland. Labour candidate ...

The 2003 Scottish elections were a setback for the SNP. Despite demanding that the election should be turned into a referendum on the Iraq war, the calls were lost amidst the emergence of anti-war ...