The Ferret looks at how the media landscape has changed, why independent journalism matters now more than ever, and what our ...

Those were the heady days in the wake of the Scottish independence referendum in 2014, and we were full of optimism. I burnt ...

Social media pages questioned whether the free bikes scheme was good value for money, after a claim was published about the costs of the project.

Energy giant SSE may keep Peterhead power station 10 years longer than planned, which critics fear could “blow an enormous ...

First minister John Swinney has been rapped by the UK statistics regulator for making a misleading claim about Scottish education, following a fact check from The Ferret.

The estimated number of cracks in the graphite core of a nuclear reactor at Torness in East Lothian has risen to 585 – the highest so far.

Nuclear sites, King Charles’ childhood school and a famous battlefield were among nearly 1,000 sites across Scotland which broke environmental rules in the past two years. The Dounreay nuclear ...

Wealthy Cairngorm landowner Alexander Bryan Jeeves was caught up in an alleged £800m money laundering and fraud scam.

Who Runs Scotland? That’s the question we have been trying to answer in our latest series. Often, in media coverage, it seems that the power in our country lies entirely within the Scottish Parliament ...

The amount of salmon killed by diseases and other problems at fish farms has reached record levels, with death rates quadrupling over the last 18 years.

A North American tree that kills native species and threatens protected habitats vital to fight climate change now makes up nearly half of Scotland’s forests.

Six fish farming companies in Scotland given government handouts of over £10 million have made profits of £926 million since 2010.