Turn the clock back six or seven decades and take a look at the traffic on Edinburgh’s roads in the 1950s and 1960s.

The largest arts festival on the planet is back. Every August, thousands of performers from around the world descend on Edinburgh’s cobbled streets. Pubs, libraries and even occasionally buses turn into pop-up theatres.

Jewish comedians Rachel Creeger and Philip Simon have spoken out after having their shows axed unexpectedly. Both were due to perform at the Whistlebinkies bar as part of this year’s Edinburgh Fringe, which runs from August 1 to 25.

Edinburgh Film Festival industry lineup includes Andrea Arnold, Nia DaCosta, Jeremy Thomas and Ken Loach, writing, access, co-production sessions

The Sixteen Films team, Ken Loach, Paul Laverty, and Rebecca O’Brien, will give a session on 20 August, while filmmaker Kevin Macdonald and his brother, producer Andrew Macdonald, will deliver the EIFF Keynote on 17 August. Scroll down for the full industry lineup.

People living in and around Hailesland Gardens in the Wester Hailes area of the city told Edinburgh Live about the incident which saw armed police swoop on their streets at around 3.40pm on Thursday,

Fire crews rushed to an Edinburgh city centre blaze at a block of tenement flats in the Old Town this morning.

This is the sixth in a series taking stock of where each of Johnson County’s high school athletic departments stand heading into the 2025-26 school year. We continue with a look at Edinburgh.

Edinburgh Fringe's annual funniest joke award has been scrapped for this year's comedy festival, organisers have confirmed (no joke). The award, launched in 2008 - providing many humorous headlines - is usually presented by the TV channel U&Dave [formerly Dave], which is owned by UKTV.

King’s 1965 schoolboy Duke of Edinburgh’s Award expedition recreated by students - Charles was 16 when he and four other Gordonstoun pupils spent four days trekking through the Cairngorms for their silver Duke of Edinburgh’s Awards.