News items from BBC News | Scotland

Pupils at four schools in Glasgow are being given lessons in how to sleep.

An ultra distance runner is set for a "step into the unknown" by attempting to cover 1,000 miles in under 16 days.

Are we clever enough to decide who governs?

Steven McKenzie spies on a red kite roost

Health correspondent Eleanor Bradford on why diets could be doomed to fail

A review of speed limits on A and B roads in the Highlands is planned to help meet government safety targets.

Leading experts on Afghanistan are gathering in Scotland for a conference on the country's future.

A group of young Scots says a plan to charge a minimum price for alcohol will not solve the country's drink problems.

Cancer patients are losing out on benefit payments worth millions of pounds, according to a leading charity.

A Labour MP caught up in a reselection dispute is fighting claims from local party members she is not up to the job.

Would Swedish school system work in Scotland?

Police name a motorcyclist who was killed in a road crash almost a mile from his home in an Aberdeenshire village.

Rangers and Dundee United share six goals in an eventful Scottish Cup quarter-final.

Would you like to quiz the SNP Commons leader?

Rangers host Dundee United with a place in the Active Nation Scottish Cup semi-finals at stake.

The first stage of a planning process to build a coal plant with carbon capture technology in Ayrshire is to get under way.

Photographs from around Scotland sent in by readers

The stories making the headlines in Scotland's newspapers.

A London-based photographer is spending two months documenting Scottish hydro electric schemes.

Proposals for mandatory jail terms for knife carriers could cost more than £80m a year in Scotland, figures suggest.