The First Minister said he was determined to end the ‘vicious circle’ of high waiting times and delayed discharge.

A hidden 120 metre mine shaft collapsed in an elderly couple’s back garden in North Lanarkshire. The Mining Remediation ...

Work is under way to create what has been described as Europe's largest battery storage project at Coalburn in South Lanarkshire. Developers say the two huge neighbouring battery farms - one at the ...

Developers say the two huge neighbouring battery farms - one at the site of a former opencast coal mine ... that it was ending mining there along with five other sites in Scotland.

The Fossil Rock Mine, formerly called the Trail Mountain Mine, closed in 2001. But U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration ...

An artist's depiction of the flood at the Mosside Mine in Airdrie, Scotland, that was responsible for the deaths of three miners in 1939. Coal was dug out from underground layers called seams by ...

John Swinney’s plan to save Scotland’s struggling NHS has no “detail” to make it a reality, doctors have warned after he ...

Former Scottish coal mining communities are to share in an £11 million windfall from a new wind farm development. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed between REG Greenburn Limited ...

After 35 years of highs and lows, production is finally under way at Scotland's first commercial gold mine. The journey has been fraught with difficulty for prospectors - but it looks like their ...

A SCOTTISH family’s home has been made safe after a “void” caused by the collapse of a 120-metre deep mine shaft was found underneath ...

The defunct mine shaft was discovered in Kilsyth, North Lanarkshire, once a coal town. A member of the residents' family later found that they had received a letter from the former Coal Authority ...