The state of the High Street last weekend has been compared to the fallout from a natural disaster, the town’s provost has claimed....
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The state of the town’s two cemeteries were this week branded “unacceptable”....
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At long last, the big weekend is finally here. Not since 2019 have Teries been able to savour their Common-Riding in the time-honoured way, so it’s going to be a memorable occasion this year, being able to mark their ancient customs and traditions as has been done over centuries past....
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Scottish Borders Council was this week urged to come up with a permanent safety solution as fears over the possibility of youngsters losing their lives among the town’s derelict buildings heightened....
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It is “vitally important” people take part in the three-month public consultation for a new high school, Provost Watson McAteer emphasised this week....
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The Commonwealth War Graves Commission is seeking blood relatives of a Hawick soldier who died of his wounds following the KOSB’s disastrous charge of the Turkish trenches on July 12, 1915, in Gallipoli in the First World War....
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There are growing concerns that an increase in traffic and speeding motorists in Princes Street due to flood scheme work elsewhere in the town could result in a serious accident....
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Local councillors Stuart Marshall and Watson McAteer this week assured Teries that their ability to stick up for the town would not be handicapped by them joining the new Scottish Borders Council administration following elections on May 5....
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Plans for a new £2million footbridge at Lower Mansfield could be approved in “September/October”, community councillors were told at their monthly meeting in the lesser town hall....
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A contract to build a business centre on the former Almstrongs store site has been agreed, The Hawick Paper understands....
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After Diane Nichol was savagely killed by her partner at his home in Trevelyan Terrace, her sister, Gail Atkinson, swore she would do all she could to make people more aware of domestic abuse....
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Local woman Kate Mactaggart is set to tackle the longest and toughest horse race in the world, having been selected from thousands of applicants to ride in the gruelling 1,000km Mongol Derby....
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The new Victoria footbridge will open by “late July”, it was announced this week by the town’s flood protection scheme director....
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Popular locally-penned children’s book Meggy and Her Fluffy Friends received a royal reading last week....
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A large crowd of more than 200 Teries, young and old, gathered in Beaconsfield Terrace on Wednesday night as Greig Middlemass took up the reins as this year’s Cornet....
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Landscaping work on the Dovemount roundabout was completed earlier this week – much to Teries’ approval....
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