The musical instrument and uniform, devised as instruments of war centuries ago, are today considered the epitome of cool. Jonathan Vigliotti reports: Every spring, when Scotland thaws and roars back ...

There's something about a warm summer evening that just makes a guy want to slip into his kilt, listen to a little bagpipe music and practice tossing haggis around a field. That wasn't quite the ...

PLEASANTON — It’s Labor Day Weekend and, as usual, the favorite color in Pleasanton is plaid. The 147th annual Scottish Highland Gathering and Games is back for the annual two-day blowout of cultural ...

A Scottish version of whiffle ball, perhaps, or maybe a light game of horseshoes. I learned many things at my very first Highland Games. There is good haggis and bad haggis, for example, and I won’t ...

FREMONT — Highland warriors and vikings invaded Ardenwood Historic farm Saturday, where kilts were the norm at the Tartan Day Scottish Fair. Richard Brown, who went by the alias Diarmid Campbell on ...

Are they Irish? Are they Scottish? Clad in red, white and blue tartan kilts and filling the air with sacred tunes from their ...

Members of the St. Andrews Society of Aiken came together Saturday night for their 17th annual Robert Burns Night Dinner. The dinner was held at Newberry Hall in downtown Aiken and celebrated the life ...

PLEASANTON — As the sun set over the Pleasanton hills Saturday, John Malcolm stood watch over his tri-tip and chicken in a sleeveless T-shirt and a kilt. Malcolm, an Antioch resident, was having some ...