Orkney-based Dr Jane Downes will be the course leader on the new undergraduate archaeology degree starting at the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) in September.

Arisaig Highland Games has announced three significant new events for their games to be held at Traigh Farm on July 27th 2011.

OLD school friends who had not met since 1936 were brought together at the opening of an exhibition at the Castlehill Heritage Centre.

Highland & Moray museums support a brand new festival for Scotland which is just around the corner, 13-15 May. The inaugural Festival of Museums will see a jam-packed programme of 75 events taking place day and night across the country, with 12 events taking place across the Highlands & Moray.

The names of 20 Scottish museum and galleries who successfully bid to host one of twenty paid internships offered by Museums Galleries Scotland have been announced. Orkney Islands Council Arts, Museums and Heritage Service and The Pier Arts Centre have successfully secured one of these internships and the process to find a Museums and Gallery Intern has commenced.

Successful applicants for the annual round of funding for Museums Galleries Scotland main grant scheme have been revealed.

An exhibition of life in the village of Brough & Dunnet Head will be on show at Castlehill Heritage Centre, Castletown (4-25 May 2011).

IAN STEPHEN reports on the World Heritage Day collaboration with school pupils from Tarbert.

An exciting public archaeology and heritage project centred around Nybster Broch, one of the most spectacular Iron Age brochs in Caithness.

Bob Pegg, Ross-shire based storyteller and musician, leads a tale-telling walk through the streets of Cromarty on 23 April.