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 ...

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

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 ...

Struggling combat veterans have used magic mushrooms to overcome post-traumatic stress disorder, The Ferret can reveal.

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

During protests and riots after the Southport stabbings, many claimed there was a connection between refugees and increases in crime in the UK.

Care homes chains operating in Scotland have had hundreds of complaints upheld by inspectors in recent years, The Ferret can reveal. Data we obtained via freedom of information from the Care ...

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.

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 ...