Borderers are still in the dark about SNP plans to introduce a 'rural tax' on areas with new wind farms in Scotland.

Education Secretary John Swinney has been urged to scrap testing for five-year olds in their first year of school. This comes after teachers and parents sent in dozens of complaints about the tests.

A written question submitted by the Scottish Conservatives at the beginning of this year showed that NHS Borders has no Changing Place Toilets (CPTs) in its hospitals.

This week Shadow Social Security Secretary and South Scotland MSP, Michelle Ballantyne, spoke in the Scottish Parliament debate on the Social Enterprise World Forum 2018.

Last week The Tweed Foundation welcomed Michelle Ballantyne MSP to discuss the trust’s conservation efforts to protect wild salmon.

Michelle Ballantyne's column in this week's Border Telegraph.

Michelle Ballantyne MSP writes in The Peebleshire News every second week.

New analysis by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) highlights slower start up rates for businesses in rural Scotland compared to the country’s cities.  

The Shadow Minister for Social Security and South Scotland MSP, Michelle Ballantyne, has welcomed the UK Government’s decision to increase funding to provide support to disabled people with the greatest barriers to work.

This week figures from the NHS’s internal accounting division highlight a rise in waiting times for patients attending accident and emergency units at in NHS Borders.