Fife Council

Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy (Pic: Danyel VanReenen)

Councillors set to scrutinise NHS Fife’s huge projected £23m overspend

The project is based around the Dreel Burn in Anstruther (Pic: Submitted)

Unique funding for pilot project at Anstruther’s Dreel Burn is unveiled

How the new Templehall hub in Kirkcaldy could look (Pic: Submitted)

Fife Council gives green light for ambitious £15m community hub project

Fife House, Glenrothes (Image by Danyel Vanreenen)

Rent rise of between five and seven per cent likely for Fife Council tenants

Cllr Altany Craik, Fife Council Roads Spokesperson and John Mitchell, Head of Roads and Transportation Services with Roads Maintenance staff. (Pic: Fife Council)

Council reassures residents it's prepared to keep Kingdom moving this winter

Work has begun in Pittenweem to repair the sea wall damaged by Storm Babet. (Pic: Fife Council)

Work underway to reinstate Pittenweem's coastal protection

Keith Rennie, managing director for Scotch Whisky Investments and Barry Anderson, Business Operations Manager toast the opening of the new facility in Glenrothes. (Pic: Paul Chappells)

Scotch Whisky Investments toasts opening of its new £10m whisky facility

Drawings of the proposed social housing development at the former Fabtek Engineering Site, Lochgelly (pic: Fife Council planning papers)

Plans to transform derelict Lochgelly gap site lodged with council

The three appliances with (from left) David Kay, IFRA Chairman; Provost of Fife Jim Leishman and Gary Johnson, IFRA Secretary. (Pic: Andrew Beveridge)

Fire service charity sends three more vehicles to help crews in Argentina

The Woodside Hotel, Aberdour is set to be turned into flats and houses. (pic: Google Maps)

Plans to turn historic Fife hotel into flats and houses given the go ahead

The Cocoa Tree Cafe (pic: Google Maps)

Popular Fife chocolatier given go ahead for plans to open new production base

Ross Macauley of Macauley's Fruit and Veg Merchant in Burntisland is one of the local businesses supporting the Fife Gift Card. (pic: Fife Council)

Shoppers urged to shop local to win their dream Christmas

The Aldi store in Glenrothes is to be expanded now plans have been approved. (Pic: Google Maps)

Green light as plans approved to expand a Fife Aldi store

Businesses at the 'meet the buyer' event (Pic: Submitted)

Fife Business Week success with praise for ‘Meet The Buyer’ event

Zest Café owner Lisa Cathro has concerns.

Fife café owner’s doubts over Hunt’s ‘Back to Work’ scheme for sick and disabled

The Our Minds Matter backed programme is to help young people navigate their feelings. Picture – supplied

Ad Feature Funding offers free counselling service to LGBTQ+ community aged 12-18
A new, free, counselling service for Fife’s LGBTQ+ young people aged 12-18 is available now, for self-referral or via family, teachers or health and social carers.

Santa meets the panto stars at the 2022 Christmas lights switch on (Pic: Cath Ruane)

Date announced for Christmas lights switch-on in Kirkcaldy town centre

Left to right - John Mitchell (Head of Roads & Transportation Services), Councillor Altany Craik, Tony McRae (Fife Council's Service Manager for Passenger Transport), Gillian Smith (Fife Council Transportation Officer), David Frenz (Stagecoach Operations Director) and Sarah Elliott (Stagecoach Commercial Director).

Fife park & ride facility marks tenth anniversary with party and cake

The Leven Road (Bawbee) Bridge, which sits above the new Leven Station, will reopen to traffic from December 4.

Date set for reopening of Leven's Bawbee Bridge

Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy (Pic: submitted)

New telecom masts at Victoria Hospital to boost local houses and businesses

Young lives can be made miserable by bullies at school (Pic: TSPL)

Fife teen, 16, shapes policy on bullying after being victimised at school

Councillor Lea McLelland says locals were distressed when Ballingry Cemetery floods (Pics: Submitted)

New bid to tackle floods hitting Fife cemetery and residents’ homes

How school meals looked in the 1970-s (Pic: Evening Standard/Getty Images)

School dinners: memories of semolina, rubbery meat and rock hard potatoes

Swan and Memorial Court in Methil (Pic: Fife Council)

Fife to ‘learn lessons’ after cladding in tower blocks swapped a decade ago

The show went on for Burntisland Youth Theatre as it presented The Wizard of OZ - despite one of the leading players going down withy laryngitis.

Fife youth theatre group closes after almost 50 years after series of setbacks

The planning application has been lodged by the car dealer with Fife Council (Pic: Google Maps)

Kirkcaldy car dealer unveils plans for new valeting workshop

The retrospective planning applications relate to properties in Dunnikier Road, Kirkcaldy (Pic: Submitted)

Landlord bids for two houses of multiple occupation in Kirkcaldy street
Plans to convert properties in Kirkcaldy into houses of multiple occupation have been lodged with Fife Council.

Conversion plans have been re-submitted to Fife Council (Pic: Submitted)

Developer’s new bid to turn empty space in Kirkcaldy High Street into flat

Fife Council has received a bronze accreditation for its work on to advance gender equality and prevent violence against women. (Pic: Submitted)

Fife Council praised for gender equality work with bronze accreditation

The care village plan goes ahead despite rising costs (Pic: submitted)

Care village costs soar by £4m but Fife councillors welcome pledge to push on

A former care home in Lochgelly will be turned into a five bedroom house. (Pic: Google Maps)

Care home in Fife town to become family home

The beer garden is planned at the Ship Tavern, Anstruther (Pic: Google Maps)

Fife pub unveils plans for new beer garden

The retaining wall is to demolished and replaced (Pic: Submitted)

Dangerous wall on Fife road to be demolished and replaced

Fire scenes courtesy of of Fife Jammer Locations. Aftermath photo by Fife Free Press

Lochgelly fire: unsafe flats to be demolished after devastating blaze

School bullying came under the microscope at this week's meeting (Pic: JPI)

New anti-bullying policy as one family left region after ‘horrifying’ experience

Rothesay House in Glenrothes (Pic: Neil Doig/Fife Free Press)

Fife Council to spend £1.4m demolishing 40-year old empty office block

Members of the public can have their say on plans to restore a section of one of central Fife’s most important watercourses (Pic: Fife Council)

Plans unveiled to restore 6km stretch of historically important burn in Fife

Pitteuchar East Primary School (Pic: Google Maps)

Inspectors publish report after visit to Fife primary school

Fife Council's write off figure is well within acceptable limits. (Pix: Pixabay)

Fife writes off over £5m of bad debt – almost half of it in Council Tax

Den Burn Bridge (Pic Submitted)

Plans to replace bridge in Fife town swamped by flooding three years ago

Rothesay House in Glenrothes (Pic: Neil Doig/Fife Free Press)

40-year old empty Fife Council office block set for demolition

The fire scene, and the aftermath (Pics: Fife Jammer Locations/Fife Free Press)

Lochgelly fire: two face charges of attempted murder and wilful fire raising

Scotland's amputees team, in action (Pic: Daniel Morup Pedersen)

Fife hosts biggest international para-football tournament – and entry is free

The fire took hold in the top floor of the flats (Pic: Fife Jammer Locations)

Lochgelly fire: two arrested in probe into major blaze at flats

A plan of how the colliery site in Comrie could be transformed (Pic: Submitted)

Major plans for Fife colliery site include leisure, tourism, housing and retail

Ravenscraig Walled Garden (Pic: Google Maps)

Renovation plans unveiled for buildings in thriving Fife nursery garden

Organised fireworks displays and bonfires are due to take place across Fife. Pic: Michael Gillen.

Fireworks and Bonfire Night events in Fife for 2023

Plans are being unveiled to improve Leven's Promenade (Pic: Fife Council

Plans and options unveiled for major revamp of Leven Promenade

Council Leader David Ross has recorded a Leader's Update which is available on YouTube. (Pic: Fife Council)

Fife's Labour administration gives progress report after a year at the helm

Aberdour Road, Dunfermline looking towards Hospital Hill (Google Maps)

Fife Council: Cycle lane could be approved despite community objections

Charlie and Sheila Oliver were presented with flowers by Councillor Kathleen Leslie and Deputy Lieutenant Clare Mitchell (Pic: Andrew Beveridge)

Kirkcaldy couple celebrate diamond wedding anniversary

Fife Council leader David Ross said he was "blindsided" by the First Minister's council tax freeze announcement.

Council tax freeze is a ‘desperate bid to buy votes’ says Fife Council leader

The land at Fulmar Way has been unused for 20 years and is allocated for housing in the FIFEplan.

Four times unsuccessful housing plan for Dalgety Bay to go ahead after appeal

Routine safety inspections are to be carried out at Strathmiglo Cemetery. (Pic: Fife Council)

Safety inspections to be carried out on headstones in Strathmiglo Cemetery

Roadworks are being carried out on the A909 Cowdenbeath Road in Burntisland from October 16 to November 24, 2023.

Motorists advised of roadworks and closure on A909 Cowdenbeath Road, Burntisland