Rachael Hamilton MSP

Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announces her resignation at Bute House.

First Minister resigns: reaction

Watched by anglers including RTC chairman, Peter Straker-Smith (right), Mairi Gougeon MSP blesses the River Tweed with a dram of whisky as she officially opens the river’s 2023 salmon fishing season. Photo: Phil Wilkinson.

Dram gesture in hope for tight lines

People were warned not to enter the sea at Eyemouth following a sewage leak.

Water out of bounds due to Eyemouth sewage leak

Rachael Hamilton MSP at the river clean.

River clean hailed a success

Rachael Hamilton MSP at the toilets in Greenlaw.

MSP Hamilton calls for public toilet reopening

Eurasian lynx.

Big cat will not be returning to the Borders for the first time in more than 500...

Rachael Hamilton, MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire.

Call for new eye hospital

First minister Nicola Sturgeon said the Borders was being moved to tier 1 of the government's multi-level framework of Covid-19 restrictions from 6pm on Friday.

Restrictions relaxed in the Borders from Friday evening

The new smoke alarm laws will now come into force in 2022.

Smoke alarm law delayed to 2022

Christine Grahame MSP

Tories refute ‘hypocrisy’ claim

Fencing is put up where a massive section of the A68 between Pathhead and Fala Dam collapsed.

Drivers face ‘weeks of delays’

A Borders MSP has urged Transport Scotland to implement an urgent timetable of repair works for the damaged section of the A68 at Fala.

Kevin Janiak

Ettrick Riverside, the home of Spark Energy in Selkirk. Its parent company Ovo Energy announced today that its offices in the building are to close.

Nearly 400 Borders jobs at stake as Ovo Energy closes its Selkirk office

Rachael Hamilton MSP is urging Borderers to respect the countryside if they are out exercising this weekend.

Borderers urged to respect the countryside this Easter weekend

The sun was setting when Curtis Welsh captured this image of a standing stone at Bemersyde, Melrose

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Tweedbank train station, the end of the line for the Borders Railway line

Scotrail could do better on Borders Railway, says MSP