More than 6,000 people signed a petition against the proposal before the Scottish Government granted approval for the scheme.

The River Nith is Scotland's seventh longest river. It rises in East Ayrshire, flowing largely through Dumfries and Galloway before entering the Solway Firth at Dumfries. The upper reaches of the ...

Shona Campbell alerted emergency services and told them that she had got into difficulty by the mouth of the River Nith near West Moss-Side Caravan Park, Annan, Dumfriesshire, on Monday.

Emergency services were called to the River Nith in the town at about 14:00 on Tuesday. The body of a woman pulled from the River Nith in Dumfries has been identified as 60-year-old Susan ...

Large areas of mudflats surround the estuaries of the River Nith and River Annan, with many areas vulnerable to quicksand. A pilot scheme is seeing if satellite imagery could help rescuers ...

A young girl and her mother have been rescued after falling down an embankment into the River Nith in Dumfries. The child had been cycling when she went off the path and rolled down the embankment ...

Boats raced their way up the River Nith to the heart of the town on one of the highest tides of the year. It was the fifth edition of the Nithraid event - a celebration which takes place on and ...