Hotels, guest houses and bed and breakfast businesses in Skye and Lochalsh are the latest to benefit from training courses run by Skye and Lochalsh Enterprise (SALE).
30 March 2004

A year long project aimed at meeting the demand for better access to information about the Cromarty Firth and for a more positive and proactive approach to development in the area has just been completed.
30 March 2004

A major new branding campaign aimed at improving the image Inverness projects to the outside world was unveiled today (Thursday 25th March 2004).
29 March 2004

The PICT ICT Youth Challenge 2004, a major information communications competition for young innovators across the Highlands and Islands reaches the third stage of a four stage process today (23rd March).
24 March 2004

A couple have just taken their first bookings after giving up high powered jobs to help visitors get the most out of a trip to a remote Orkney community.
22 March 2004

Former fisherman Neil Matheson is looking for a helping hand from nature as he bids to mussel in on a new seafood venture for Orkney.
22 March 2004

Members of the public in Shetland are being invited to meet the chairman and chief executive of Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) at an informal public meeting on Monday (22 March).
22 March 2004

Donnie MacDonald stands down as a Ross and Cromarty Enterprise (RACE) director this week.
22 March 2004

Fort William's Lime Tree studio and art gallery is about to undergo a significant expansion which is expected to create 10 full-time and six part time jobs.
17 March 2004

Demand for rail services in the Highlands has grown significantly in recent years according to a major new report published by Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) today (Tuesday, 16th March 2004).
17 March 2004

Two very different creative businesses are on the up thanks to financial support from Argyll and the Islands Enterprise (AIE).
16 March 2004

Owner Debbie Low decided to start at the top when she embarked on a total makeover for a landmark Orkney hotel.
15 March 2004

Forbes Jackson, a Ross and Cromarty Enterprise (RACE) board member, joins the board of the North Highland College today (Monday 15th March).
15 March 2004

Charles Kennedy MP will officially open Thorfin House, a community resource centre for Ross-shire, today (Monday 15th March).
15 March 2004

Local shoppers and visitors to Scotland can look forward to a better quality service from Scotland's retailers with the launch of Welcome Host Retail tomorrow (March 11th).
10 March 2004

Renowned Scottish food writer Sue Lawrence will officially open the new premises of Gillies Fine Foods Limited tomorrow (March 11th).
10 March 2004

Highlands and Islands companies specialising in nature-based tourism are being offered a new opportunity to increase their expertise by joining forces with their counterparts in Norway, Sweden and Iceland.
08 March 2004

Delegates from across Scotland were today given expert briefing on the outcome of the recent European Commission debate on the future of funding for public and regional authorities in the new enlarged European Union after 2007.
08 March 2004

Shetland Enterprise is looking to recruit three new board members.
08 March 2004

Unst, the most northerly part of the UK, is to be the base for an ambitious new project to establish and test locally produced renewable energy. The project, Promoting Unst Renewable Energy (PURE), will be one of the first hydrogen research and development facilities of its kind in the UK, storing renewable energy as hydrogen. The project will evaluate the many possible applications of hydrogen as a fuel source.
08 March 2004

Residents of Lochaber have been signing up for broadband in their droves.
03 March 2004

The success of a youth technology and innovation competition developed in the Highlands and Islands will see it become a major national contest next year.
03 March 2004

Inverness Caledonian Thistle Stadium is the venue tonight (Tuesday 2nd March) for the launch of the Highlands and Islands Food and Drink Forum.
03 March 2004

Dedication is the name of the game if you want to become a veterinary nurse - as Gillian Aitchison soon discovered. After sending off 200 applications to vet practices the length and breadth of Britain, 20-year-old Gillian almost despaired of being offered a job.
01 March 2004

Tailoring courses in Ullapool have been so successful that at least two unemployed people are seriously looking at self-employment. The tailoring training programme which took place in the Macphail Centre was introduced by Ross and Cromarty Enterprise (RACE) to give participants new skills and to develop existing ones. The courses were run and certified by Cardonald College, Glasgow.
01 March 2004

A delegation from the Swedish town of Tranas is visiting Moray this week to reinforce links between the two communities.
01 March 2004

Thousands of secondary school pupils are set to visit the Highland Conference Centre at the Newton Hotel in Nairn this week to take part in an enterprise roadshow developed by Careers Scotland.
01 March 2004