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 ...

Scotland’s shift from oil is underway. Our new series asks: who’s winning, who’s losing, and how fair is the transition to clean energy? Energy giant SSE may keep Scotland’s dirtiest power station ...

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 ...

Fishing companies are hoping to “double” their catches of krill — tiny animals that sustain the Antarctic Ocean — to feed the fish farming industry. An international investigation for The Ferret has ...

Ally Tibbitt is a journalist and a co-founding Director of The Ferret.