Ian Crowther has said Easter Drylaw Park has struggled with antisocial behaviour after youths were suspected of causing severe damage to the communal grass areas on vehicles such as quad bikes.

High winds hit the capital on Sunday, with residents in Bruntsfield seeing damage after masonry from a tenement building fell from the fifth floor onto the street below.

An Edinburgh school was forced into “lockdown” after a pupil was spotted with a BB gun. Early on Friday (21st February) morning, parents at Knox Academy in Haddington, a town just outside Edinburgh, were informed that the school had been placed into a “lockdown”.

A “tourist tax” on hotels beginning next year will be implemented in Edinburgh, Scotland — a first in the United Kingdom. In late January, The City of Edinburgh Council decided to move forward with a 5% per night fee on overnight accommodations within the city. The tax goes into effect on July 24, 2026.

Footage shows the Ryanair plane coming in to land at Edinburgh, before it suddenly sweeps up into the air again - on what was its second attempt to land in the strong winds.

BBC Scotland News asked a genealogy service to uncover the stories of the men who built the theatre and left the note. They found William Stewart Cruickshank, who was the top name on the list, to have been 50-years-old when he was involved with the project.

Edinburgh’s Princes Street has been branded “an embarrassment” in a joint statement by three community councils covering the city centre.

Edinburgh celebrates its 900th anniversary this year. Over the centuries it became one of the most influential centres of civilisation. One of its many famous sons was Sir Patrick Geddes, whose urban planning ideas are the kind we need to rediscover.

February 22 saw a big scientific breakthrough with the successful cloning of a mammal for the first time in 1997. Dolly was unique as it had been developed at a lab in Scotland’s Edinburgh from the DNA of an adult sheep,

Increasing numbers of youth anti-social on quad bikes, scooters, and e-bikes has left Edinburgh locals feeling "intimidated" with havoc being wrecked in the city centre.

Around three local authorities have informed locals of rises of 10 per cent, while one is set to raise by 8.2 per cent, and another was eight per cent and a further council at 7.5 per cent.

It comes after 11th-hour negotiations led to a deal between the Labour administration and the Conservative and Liberal Democrat groups.