No date has yet been forecast for a Scottish Government decision on a new fast-food outlet and relocated retail store in Commercial Road....
A fund-raising trek to the summit of Mount Toubkal, North Africa’s highest peak, is the aim of two local ladies....
There will be no merger of the two Masonic lodges in Hawick, for the time being. As revealed in The Hawick Paper last month, members of Lodge 424 in Union Street and Lodge 111 in Commercial Road were to be asked for their opinions about a possible amalgamation....
A record number of 196 children attended last Friday’s Borders Blue Zone initiative, which has attracted warm praise from parents....
Long-standing road-safety concerns at the Dunk corner are to be taken “right to the top”, it was agreed at Monday night’s community council meeting....
“All the kids worked really hard, I am very proud of them” was how ACT 1 Youth Theatre director Deborah Lyons summed up the group’s third annual Burns supper in the Catholic church hall last Tuesday night....
The STEM Hub, a resource to local businesses in the construction and renewables sector, will have its launch at the Borders College Hawick Campus on Wednesday at 8.30am....
Following the launch last month of Once Upon a Time in Hawick – a year-long project exploring the identities, industries and stories of Hawick – the newly revamped Alchemy Film & Arts is building a case for Hawick to be Scotland’s ‘film town’....
Controversial plans to axe 11 small playparks in and around Hawick will result in an “increase in serious road safety accidents”....
The Proclaimers sang about walking 500 miles but Hawick’s very own marathon man Mark Young has just completed running an incredible 500 miles in aid of a local charity....
The outcry over Scottish Borders Council’s decision to let Hawick’s CCTV network fall to rack and ruin is growing louder, with local ward councillor Watson McAteer this week asking Justice Minister Humza Yousaf to intervene....
Local ward councillor Stuart Marshall is raising the alarm about fire risks in Burnfoot after receiving more complaints....
The Vertish Hill is the latest area of Hawick to be suffering the scourge of dog fouling....
Well-known local man Gary Douglas – a proud husband, dad and papa – passed away suddenly on Sunday. He was 54....
Tributes have been paid to retired Hawick Fire Station manager Ian Young, who passed away at Borders General Hospital earlier this week with his family by his side....
Teviot Day Care campaigners have slammed Scottish Borders Council for failing to inform them of a Locality Working Group meeting. Sean Elliot, of TDC Support Group, met with the council’s chief officer of health and social care just a fortnight earlier, when it was suggested the group should participate....