Edinburgh councillors are exploring spending £600,000 to build new public toilets by Portobello Beach amid complaints over ...

Edinburgh's minority Labour administration faces potentially tricky negotiations with the Lib Dems and Tories to win their ...

IT has been revealed that breaches of legal housing regulations in Edinburgh have nearly doubled in the past year.

Labour’s £40bn tax raid has been blamed for soaring council tax bills across the country. Local authorities said increases to ...

Talks for a charity to take over an Edinburgh community centre have collapsed after nearly two years, following a disagreement with the council over responsibility for repairs. The Braidwood Centre in ...

Edinburgh councillors have voted to try and claw back millions of pounds per year set to be taken by the Treasury in tax from the city’s new visitor levy.

More than 8,000 fines have been issued to motorists in Edinburgh in the first year of the city's pavement parking ban. In ...

West Lothian has the lowest number of empty council homes in years after a targeted programme which saw more than a thousand homes re-let in this financial year. The council has 251 mainstream ...

Edinburgh council is in line to become the latest town hall to defy John Swinney’s call for council tax rises to be limited.

East Lothian Councillors are set to approve a 10% council tax rise next week despite additional funding from Scottish Government. A cross party budget paper due to go to elected members for final ...

COMMUNITY-LED pressure group Safe Consumption Edinburgh is asking the council for a safe consumption facility (SCF) in the ...

Local politicians in Edinburgh have approved a tourist tax for visitors staying overnight the Scottish capital, introducing the first charge of its kind in the United Kingdom. From mid-2026 ...