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 ...

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

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

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

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

Young people in Scotland will be empowered to challenge disinformation thanks to a new project from The Ferret, CILIPS and Young Scot.

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 ...

Loch Long on the Clyde has been contaminated by radioactive waste from the UK’s nuclear bomb store where old water pipes have repeatedly burst and caused floods, files released after a six-year ...

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 ...