John Swinney has reversed a near £200m cut to the provision of affordable homes in today's Budget - but campaigners say it still falls short of what is needed to end the housing and homelessness crisis.
The UK's highest railway owned by a leading Scottish Government economic development agency will not be ready for the winter season as problems continue to dog the beleaguered structure which has been shut for nearly six years years since 2018.
The number of children languishing in emergency accommodation for the homeless has soared over tenfold in parts of Scotland in the past ten years prompting pre-Budget demands to end the cuts that are deepening the housing and homelessness emergency.
New concerns over the future of state-owned shipyard at the centre of Scotland's ferry fiasco have surfaced after legal checks over a vital £14.2m taxpayer investment have 'stalled'.
One of Britain's most powerful unions and key funders of Labour has told ministers that Scotland's only oil refinery should be saved by using taxpayers money to part-nationalise it to prevent "working-class wastelands".
One of Scotland's oldest ferries is set to be out of action for at least over a month as new concerns about the resilience of Scotland's current ferry fleet deepen.
Ministers are to miss a crucial deadline to stop breaches in the law that protects Scotland's precious landscape, environment and wildlife.
A ferry that is 23 years past its 'sell-by date' has become the seventh to break down in a matter of days in a deepening crisis over lifeline Scots services.
A third of Scotland's local authorities are coming under the close scrutiny of the housing regulator in the wake of concerns that they are unable to meet their legal duties for putting a roof over people's heads, the Herald can reveal.
CalMac has been warning about two hour queues to get to and from a Scots island popular with tourists as it was plunged into a new "crisis" with a fourth breakdown in a matter of days.
