NHS Tayside has been forced to outsource biopsy work to England due to an inability to recruit and retain sufficient numbers of staff, it has been revealed.
Breast cancer patients in Tayside are facing a longer wait for answers after it emerged an overdue independent review into their care is still weeks away from being published.
The message is getting through to Tayside and Fife businesses "illegality is only a shortcut to major fines”.
Funding to Alcohol and Drug Partnerships (ADPs) in Tayside has been slashed by more than 22% since 2015, despite ministers acknowledging the region now faces a drug deaths "emergency".
Suggestions made by SNP politicians that a referendum could be avoided for Scotland to gain independence have been derided as a "conference carrot" for hardliners.
Dundee City Council has been urged to step in after an influential cultural position was allowed to lapse.
Local moves are afoot to deliver home-based crisis mental health care in Angus.
MSPs have been urged to act against a "skills drought" in Dundee after residents were shut out of top-level government retraining funding.
City council leader John Alexander has been accused of telling other authorities to "do as I say, not as I do" after he hailed new workplace parking levy powers - then ruled out using them in Dundee.
An MSP has claimed Dundee residents are being shortchanged on rising revenues brought in through city business rates after the local council was forced to cut nearly £9 million from its budget.