Environment

Hawick Community Council members are split over plans to site a community water turbine in the River Teviot.

The rejection of plans for a 15-turbine wind farm near Hawick has been hailed a victory for the communities which fought against the development for almost five years.

A firm planning a wind farm near Hawick is appealing to the Scottish Government to overturn a decision by councillors to reject it.

Hawick’s Wilton Lodge Park could be designated as a place of living remembrance to those killed in the First World War.

Council chiefs have agreed to put Hawick in the running for a £2m regeneration project.

The restoration of Hawick’s Wilton Lodge Park is now finally complete after five years’ work and an outlay of £3.64m.

The state of some of Hawick’s public allotments has been described as “appalling” by one town councillor.

A Borders councillor is making it his mission to save the world from global warming, and he’s taking that crusade to the top.

Controversial plans for a wind farm south of Hawick thrown out by Scottish Borders Council last year have been given the go-ahead after an appeal to ministers.

Hawick’s Wilton Lodge Park has hit the gold standard for outdoor spaces after being awarded Green Flag status by Keep Scotland Beautiful.

Scottish Water is asking the public to use water wisely to help maintain supplies during the current period of hot summer weather.

A proposal to use Scottish Borders Council cash to clean-up a overgrown piece of land abandoned by a private landlord in Hawick has been branded an “insult to the tax-paying public” by one of the town’s councillors.

Scottish residents should expect to see a rise in the number of daddy longlegs (also known as crane flies) this year, after millions of larvae were discovered underground.

Campaigners claiming that timber lorries are destroying rural roads and speeding through villages say they are confident their pleas are being taken on board.

A clampdown on anti-social campers in one of the most picturesque areas of the Borders has been announced.

Hillwalkers and people pursuing outdoor activities in the mountains are ebing warned by Police Scotland of the dangers that inclement weather and the terrain can present.