Edinburgh City Council

Edinburgh City Council is the first Scottish local authority to make the World Wildlife Fund’s Gold Pledge on forest products procurement.

The Times newspaper has launched a campaign today to make cities safer for cyclists.

David Strang is to stay on as chief constable of Lothian and Borders Police. Mr Strang has been in charge of Lothian and Borders Police since 2007 and his five year contract was due to expire on 31 March 2012.

Edinburgh's Central Library is marking Holocaust Memorial Day with an exhibition that remembers the life of Holocaust survivor Ernest Levy.

Plans to build a state-of-the-art building to accommodate James Gillespie’s High School got the go-ahead today.

A batch of small electric cars have been added to public sector fleets.

Kate Adie, Lord David Puttnam, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and Olivia Giles are among the speakers appearing at the Edinburgh Lectures 2012 over the next few months, it was announced today.

Annual grass roots festival of traditional music and the arts taking place at venues across the city (only a few are listed above). More than 30 organisations come together to put on foot-stomping ceilidhs, late night concerts, folk clubs, storytelling and workshops by local and international performers.

Pupils at James Gillespie’s High School in Edinburgh have found a novel way to celebrate the life of their History Teacher, Mr Caddell, who died last year.

Over 600 independent retailers, restaurants and businesses in the Leith area are being invited to enter a competition, ‘Leith Shop Idol’, for the title of ‘Most Improved’ wi

More tram works are about to get underway in the city centre.

Shop owners and residents in Leith are being urged to take advantage of a £200,000 grant to restore shop fronts and buildings to their former glory.

Edinburgh’s Hogmanay Street Party was being called "a major success" by organisers the City of Edinburgh Council and Unique Event

From today, changes to the width of 5p and 10p coins will mean that you can't use them for any of Edinburgh's Pay and Display parking ticket machines.

Record crowds, and torches sell-out for the Torchlight Procession, but tickets are still available for the Street Party tonight.

Edinburgh’s Hogmanay three-day festival opens tomorrow evening (Friday, 30th December) with the Torchlight Proc

The Scottish Government has announced that all 32 councils have confirmed, in principle, to freeze council tax for another year.

WWF Scotland has accused the Scottish government of taking a "complacent" approach to "dangerous" levels of air pollution in Scottish cities, caused mostly by motorised traffic.

Professor Peter Higgs whose theory about the existence of an elusive particle – or boson – came in a moment of inspiration while walking in the Cairngorms in 1964, has been named the

The trams depot at Gogar has officially been handed over to Edinburgh City Council.