An event to launch a trailblazing challenge fund in the Highlands and Islands. Up to £120,000 of development funding is available for groundbreaking ideas in the use of technology and creative content to connect heritage and tourism.
31 October 2006

Residents of the North Mainland are being encouraged to come together on 3 November 2006, to reflect on the past and focus on the future at a specially organised event being held at Brae Hall and Youth Centre.
31 October 2006

A new magazine aimed at raising public awareness of renewable energy issues will be dropping through letterboxes across the Highlands and Islands next week.
26 October 2006

A task force set up to assist personnel facing redundancy during the drawdown of RAF Kinloss and RAF Lossiemouth, is confident that their skills will meet a ready demand within the local economy.
24 October 2006

Three nominees from the Highlands and Islands have been announced as finalists for this year's National Training Awards (NTA).
24 October 2006

Work started today (Tuesday, October 24) on a brand new £1m building for Cothrom Ltd, a widely acclaimed training centre and childcare facility serving the Uists and Barra.
24 October 2006

HI-energy news - now available. This first issue, from HIE's renewable energy team, contains a range of relevant articles, spanning various renewable energy sectors across the Highlands and Islands.
20 October 2006

The Highlands and Islands Community Energy Company (HICEC) has just issued the latest edition of its newsletter - Community Energy News - with details of just some of the community schemes in the Highlands and Islands it has assisted.
19 October 2006

Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) today, Thursday 19 October, announced it is to invest an extra £12million in Caithness and Sutherland. The extra funding, a 50 per cent increase on the current budget allocation for the area, will be used over the next three years to help address the considerable challenges posed to the area's economy by the decommissioning of Dounreay nuclear plant.
19 October 2006

Gaelic language and cultural development organisation, Bòrd na Gàidhlig has announced that Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) will be one of the first public bodies invited to prepare a Gaelic language plan in compliance with the recently passed Gaelic Language Act.
19 October 2006

With the countdown to Highland 2007 now well underway, event organisers are being encouraged to get on board with Scotland's year of Highland culture.
18 October 2006

Businesses and other employers in Orkney are being offered an opportunity to discover how they can recruit valuable staff - while helping people with disabilities and other support needs find work.
17 October 2006

Communities and voluntary groups in Shetland are being encouraged to sign up to a new on-line service which promises to give them their own gateway to the internet.
17 October 2006

The winners of the Scottish Modern Apprenticeship Awards 2006 were announced last night (Thursday, 12 October 2006).
13 October 2006

Four Highland bands head out to Russia tomorrow (Thursday, October 12) to take part in a two day rock festival in Moscow.

12 October 2006

Inverness based consultants EKOS have been commissioned by HIE Moray to carry out an economic regeneration study in East Moray towns.
12 October 2006

Stephanie Stevenson, a 20 year old physics student from Lerwick and who studies at AberdeenUniversity, has been crowned Scotland’s ‘Most Enterprising Student’ 2006. Stephanie was supported by Careers Scotland Shetland.
11 October 2006

The winners of this year's Highlands and Islands Food and Drink Awards were announced at the awards dinner on Thursday 5 October at the Drumossie Hotel, Inverness. These prestigious awards, in their second year, celebrate the diverse range of food and drink products grown and produced locally, as well as industry-related services.
10 October 2006

The Shetland Isles and the Isle of Skye are well represented at this year's Scottish Modern Apprenticeship Awards after four nominees from the islands were named as finalists.
09 October 2006

The Consul General of Germany last week visited the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) in Oban as part of a fact-finding visit to Argyll.
03 October 2006

Pupils at Tain Royal Academy have been challenged to help raise the profile of careers in Scotland's food industry, as well as getting a feel for what it takes to run a business.
03 October 2006

THE RAF motto 'through adversity to the stars' still held good as a maxim for the service's former base on Saxa Vord this weekend when over 250 people gathered to hammer out plans for the economic future of the Shetlands' furthest north isles.
02 October 2006

Lochaber's economy has undergone a notable improvement in recent years however some key challenges lie ahead.
02 October 2006