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Aberdeen City Council today launched its Budget Consultation 2025/26 – aimed at understanding how potential savings options might affect residents.
Due to rising demand and costs, the Council must address a funding shortfall of £34 million in 2025/26 and £54m over the next three years.…
Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums (AAGM) review of the year 2023-24 highlights the organisation’s impact on the wellbeing of the people of Aberdeen, the city’s cultural and…
City residents are being asked to nominate an exceptional council employee or team to be crowned the People’s Champion 2024.
The Star Awards are Aberdeen City Council’s annual staff recognition awards, which includes the People’s Champion, the only award category that is nominated and…
The next stage for a potential visitor levy scheme in Aberdeen which would raise revenue to be used for improvements for the tourism sector in the city is to be developed.
Aberdeen City Council’s Finance and Resources Committee today approved the move which will see the scheme to charge a…
Four projects including a creative makers programme for the Tall Ships event and an upskilling project have received funding after approval at committee today.
The projects, which are all being carried out via the City Council and were agreed by the Finance and Resources Committee, have…
A pilot project which will strengthen the resilience of local businesses in Aberdeen city centre through an autumn events programme including the development of a business toolkit has been agreed.
The £100,000 for the Vibrant & Sustainable City Centre Pilot which will …
Significant updates on two major city centre improvement projects – a new urban park and streetscape works to the Castlegate – have been agreed today by Aberdeen City Council.
Detailed and technical design along with the negotiation and execution of contracts for delivery of the…
An exciting programme of events including ticketed music concerts with nationally and internationally recognised headline acts is to take place as part of the Tall Ships festival in Aberdeen next year.
A large outdoor event space adjacent to the harbour’s quaysides including a stage…
SQA exam results released today (Tuesday 6 August) revealed that a total of 22,644 presentations were made across Aberdeen City schools in 2024.
The results showed that not only were more pupils presented for SQA Awards (National 5, Higher and Advanced…
Aberdeen’s beautiful parks and green spaces ‘rose’ to the occasion today when judges from the prestigious Beautiful Scotland competition toured around the city as part of their deliberations.
The visit was started by judges Liz Stewart and Gregor McGillivray at the community…
Residents in Aberdeen are today (Thursday 1 August) being invited to stand and represent their communities in forthcoming Community Council elections.
The city-wide elections which take place every three years will this year be held on 3 October.
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Unions representing members within waste and recycling; and environmental services are planning to take industrial action in a national dispute over pay, which is likely to affect operations at a number of local authorities across Scotland in the coming weeks.
Unions Unite and…