First Minister John Swinney is facing questions from MSPs after Scotland’s largest teaching union backed strike action. The ballot of members of Scotland’s largest teaching union saw 85% vote in ...

It was the most politically sensitive out of 30 cases that the Crown Office has informed first ministers about over the last 22 years.

John Swinney said he only became aware of a probe into former SNP Holyrood candidate Sally Donald’s benefit claims after a recent press inquiry, as he faced questions at FMQs.

Scotland’s “entrepreneurial ecosystem” is boosting the country’s profile as an “ambitious innovation nation”, First Minister John Swinney has declared.

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar raises the cases of families who say their children are suffering life-long debilitating conditions resulting from drugs taken when patients at the Queen Elizabeth ...

Documents show the lord advocate first informed John Swinney that Peter Murrell had been charged with embezzlement in March.

John Swinney ‘concerned’ about Scots trapped in Middle East as conflict rages - The First Minister said the Scottish ...

Scrapping windfall tax on oil and gas is ‘utterly essential’, Swinney insists - The Scottish First Minister spoke out ahead of a meeting between Chancellor Rachel Reeves and North Sea leaders.

The US and Israel have launched a major attack on targets across Iran as Donald Trump called on the Iranian people to “take ...

John Swinney admits cervical screening uptake is “not where we want it to be” after MSP Ruth Maguire raised falling attendance.

The First Minister was quizzed on The Scotsman’s story in Holyrood ...

Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain has said she was 'not aware' John Swinney had details of Peter Murrell's legal case almost a year ago.