Over 90% of bids to turn homes into short-term lets in a Highland area facing a housing crisis have been approved since last year, The Ferret can reveal.

Intense lobbying by the multinational whisky industry forced the Scottish Government’s green watchdog to back down on plans ...

The boss of the University of Edinburgh is facing calls to “come clean” over earnings from a second job, amid staff strikes ...

Scotland’s shift from oil is underway. Our new series, After Oil, asks: who’s winning, who’s losing, and how fair is the ...

As part of our new series After Oil, Ferret Fact Service looks at four of the key questions around Grangemouth’s closure.

Long NHS waits are a concern in Scotland, but is Labour’s claim that they’re 800x more common than in England accurate? Our ...

What costs the tax payer more? Asylum support? Benefit fraud? Or tax avoidance? The Ferret took a look at a popular meme.

As many as 43 members of the House of Lords have investments totalling millions of pounds and senior roles in oil and gas companies, prompting accusations of “unethical” conflicts of interest. An ...

The number of safety incidents that could have leaked radiation at the Trident nuclear base on the Clyde has risen to the highest in 15 years, according to information released by the Ministry of ...

Ferret Fact Service is Scotland’s first non-partisan fact checking service. Launched in the Spring of 2017, FFS was the first Scottish fact-checker accredited by the International Fact-Checking ...

On one side of Nina’s bright living room, life is flourishing. Plants line the large window, green and verdant, the tendrils of one tumbling vigorously down the side of a high shelf. But on the other ...

A company linked to Rupert Murdoch, a US arms maker, and a Clyde port owner accused of tax avoidance got £77m in public funds from the Scottish Government. The development follows condemnation of ...