Catch up on the most popular stories on the BBC Scotland news website.
SUNDAY 23 DECEMBER
The body of the skipper of the Flying Phantom tug has been found by police divers searching the capsized vessel.
Leading Scottish literary figures have criticised a decision by the US Library of Congress to reclassify their work as a subsection of English literature.
Four men brutally attacked a 43-year-old man in a West Lothian car park, leaving him in a serious condition, police have confirmed.
SATURDAY 22 DECEMBER
The body of Robert Cameron, one of three sailors whose tugboat capsized in the River Clyde, has been found, police have confirmed.
Death row Scot Kenny Richey has been returned to jail in Ohio following a heart scare and will return to court in January.
Underwater search teams have found a second body inside a tug boat which capsized in the River Clyde on Wednesday.
FRIDAY 21 DECEMBER
A man has died and five people were taken to hospital after a fire broke out at a farmhouse in Cluny, near Cardenden, Fife.
A street in Earlston in the Scottish Borders is to be renamed - after residents complained about its Italian name.
Heart transplants at the Scottish National Heart Transplant Unit have been suspended "for several weeks" after a rise in patient deaths.
THURSDAY 20 DECEMBER
The search for three crew members feared dead after a tug capsized in heavy fog on the River Clyde has been called off for the night.
Death row Scot Kenny Richey has missed a court hearing that would have set him free from more than 20 years in prison after he fell ill.
First Minister Alex Salmond has attacked Lib Dem leader Nicol Stephen over his criticism of the handling of the Donald Trump golf application.
WEDNESDAY 19 DECEMBER
A Scottish man who has spent 20 years on death row in the US for the murder of a two-year-old girl is set to be freed after agreeing a plea bargain.
The most popular baby names in Scotland this year have been revealed by the Registrar General for Scotland .
A new cable stayed-style bridge is to be built across the Firth of Forth, just west of the existing suspension road crossing.
TUESDAY 18 DECEMBER
A baggage handler who helped tackle terror suspects at Glasgow Airport will be honoured with a special Queen's medal for bravery.
A newly-qualified RAF flight controller who saved the life of a pilot has been honoured with a bravery award.
A teenager who threw a live lamb onto a fire "for a laugh" to celebrate his birthday has avoided a custodial sentence.
MONDAY 17 DECEMBER
Former socialist MSP Tommy Sheridan has said he is "furious" over how his arrest on perjury charges was handled.
The bones of six bishops buried more than 600 years ago have been identified using new hi-tech methods.
Donald Trump has warned that "malicious and inaccurate" political attacks are threatening plans for his £1bn golf resort in Aberdeenshire.
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