2024 in Scotland

• First Minister
• Humza Yousaf (until 7 May 2024 )
• John Swinney (starting 8 May 2024)
• Secretary of State:
• Alister Jack (until 5 July 2024)
• Ian Murray (starting on 5 July 2024)

• 1 January – Police Scotland launch a murder investigation following the death of a 38-year-old man who was shot outside an Edinburgh pub shortly before midnight on New Year's Eve. A second man injured during the incident has been taken to hospital.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-67856748 |title=Man dies in shooting outside Granton pub before New Year bells |date=1 January 2024 |access-date=1 January 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}} The deceased man is subsequently named as Marc Webley.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-67871340 |title=Granton shooting: Murdered man Marc Webley told enemies 'come and get it' |date=3 January 2024 |access-date=3 January 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• 3 January – Police say they are "extremely concerned" for the safety of Laura Wilkie, a 43-year-old woman from Ayr, who has been missing since 18 December 2023.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-67877646 |title=Police 'extremely concerned' for missing Ayr woman |date=3 January 2024 |access-date=3 January 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• 4 January –
• Owners of American XL bully dogs in England and Wales are warned not to rehome them in Scotland as they become a banned breed under the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 in England and Wales.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-67885918 |title=Dog owners warned not to rehome banned XL bullies in Scotland |date=4 January 2024 |access-date=5 January 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• Police searching for Laura Wilkie find a body at Rozelle Park in Ayr, close to where she was last seen.{{Cite web|url=https://malaysia.news.yahoo.com/laura-wilkie-police-ayr-extremely-102900186.html |title=Laura Wilkie: Body found in search for missing woman who vanished in Ayr before Christmas |date=4 January 2024 |website=Yahoo News |access-date=20 January 2024}}
• 5 January – Fugitive Nicholas Rossi, wanted in the United States on rape charges, is extradited from Scotland.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-67896590 |title=US fugitive Nicholas Rossi extradited from Scotland |date=5 January 2024 |access-date=5 January 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• 6 January – A 32-year-old man and 25-year-old woman have been arrested and charged with murder over the death of Marc Webley on New Year's Eve, police have confirmed.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-67890747 |title=Marc Webley murder: Man and woman charged over shooting at Edinburgh pub |date=6 January 2024 |access-date=6 January 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• 8 January – Scottish Government papers reveal that a fragment of the Stone of Destiny gifted to Alex Salmond in 2008, and thought to be lost, is being held by the Scottish National Party at its headquarters.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-67911483 |title=Missing Stone of Destiny chip found in SNP cupboard |date=8 January 2024 |access-date=8 January 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• 9 January – BBC News reports that a ban on American XL bully dogs is likely in Scotland by the end of January.{{Cite web |first=Andrew |last=Kerr |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-67927591 |title=American XL bully ban in Scotland 'likely by end of month' |date=9 January 2024 |access-date=9 January 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• 10 January –
• First Minister Humza Yousaf confirms those in Scotland convicted because of the Post Office scandal will be cleared following a similar announcement at Westminster for England and Wales, and that he will work with the UK government to bring this about.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-67937805 |title=Post Office scandal victims in Scotland to be cleared |date=10 January 2024 |access-date=10 January 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• It is reported that David Page, the deputy chief officer at Police Scotland and the force's most senior member of civilian staff, has made a complaint against new Chief Constable Jo Farrell, doing so within weeks of her arrival.{{Cite web |first=David |last=Cowan |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-67935857 |title=Complaint lodged against new Police Scotland chief |date=10 January 2024 |access-date=10 January 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• 11 January –
• First Minister Humza Yousaf confirms that the Scottish Government will "in essence replicate" the law in England and Wales banning unlicensed ownership of American XL bully dogs.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-67948509 |title=Scotland to replicate ban on XL bully dogs – Yousaf |date=11 January 2024 |access-date=11 January 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• Plans are announced for West Town, a £2bn 7,000 home development on land near Edinburgh Airport.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-67944481 |title=£2bn town planned near Edinburgh Airport |date=11 January 2024 |access-date=11 January 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• 13 January – A 70-year-old woman is charged after a car ran into protesters at a pro-Palestine march in Edinburgh.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/jan/13/70-year-old-charged-after-car-runs-into-pro-palestine-demo-in-edinburgh |title=70-year-old charged after car runs into pro-Palestine demo in Edinburgh |first=Sammy |last=Gecsoyler |date=13 January 2024 |access-date=14 January 2024 |work=The Guardian}}
• 14 January – Ramsay El-Nakla, the brother-in-law of Humza Yousaf, has been charged by police in connection with drugs offences.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-67972980 |title=Humza Yousaf's brother-in-law charged with drug offences |date=14 January 2024 |access-date=14 January 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• 15 January –
• Robert O'Brien and Andrew Kelly are sentenced to life imprisonment with minimum terms of 22 and 18 years respectively for the 1996 murder of Caroline Glachan.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-67959641 |title=Caroline Glachan murder: Two men jailed for killing schoolgirl in 1996 |date=15 January 2024 |access-date=15 January 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• James Stockan announces he will step down from the post of leader of Orkney Islands Council, as well as relinquishing his council seat, after six years in the role.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-67983803 |title=Orkney Islands Council leader James Stockan to step down |date=15 January 2024 |access-date=15 January 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• 16 January –
• A yellow weather warning is in place for snow and ice for the whole of Scotland.{{Cite web |first=Steph |last=Brown |url=https://www.thenational.scot/news/24048611.scotland-weather-met-office-issues-yellow-snow-ice-warning/ |title=Met Office issues nationwide warning for snow and ice |date=14 January 2024 |website=The National |access-date=15 January 2024}}
• Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain, Scotland's most senior lawyer, apologises to victims of the Post Office scandal, saying they were let down by the justice system.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-67994116 |title=Top law officer apologises over Post Office scandal |date=16 January 2024 |access-date=16 January 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• Finance Secretary Shona Robison confirms that the Scottish Government is to cut at least 1,200 funded university places as they cannot afford to continue paying for additional places created during the COVID-19 pandemic.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-67993638 |title=Funded places for Scottish universities to be cut |date=16 January 2024 |access-date=16 January 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• 17 January – The UK government is seeking legal expenses from the Scottish Government over its challenge against the veto of the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-68009533 |title=UK government to seek gender case legal expenses from Scots ministers |date=17 January 2024 |access-date=17 January 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• 18 January –
• Community Safety Minister Siobhian Brown announces that Scotland will introduce legislation to ban the sale, breeding and abandonment of American XL bully dogs, replicating the law for England and Wales, at a date to be confirmed later.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-68021353 |title=Scottish government announces XL Bully dog 'ban' |date=18 January 2024 |access-date=18 January 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• Nuns Sister Sarah McDermott and Sister Eileen Igoe, and carer Margaret Hughes, who mistreated children at Smyllum Park, an orphanage in Lanark from 1969 until 1981 when it closed, are each sentenced to three years in prison.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-68020586 |title=Smyllum Park: Nuns and carer jailed for abusing orphanage children |date=18 January 2024 |access-date=18 January 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• Helen Goss, the mother of an eleven-year-old girl from Aberdeenshire with long COVID, launches legal action against NHS Grampian for what she says are the health board's "multiple failings" in the care and treatment of her daughter.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-68017038 |title=Long Covid: NHS legal action launched by family of girl |date=18 January 2024 |access-date=20 January 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• 21 January –
• Scotland's First Minister, Humza Yousaf, tells the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg he is willing to work with Sir Keir Starmer if he becomes prime minister after the next general election.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-68046866 |title=Yousaf offers talks with 'next prime minister' Starmer |date=21 January 2024 |access-date=21 January 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• ScotRail cancels all services from 7pm until after the following day's rush hour because of high winds caused by Storm Isha.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-68049896 |title=All ScotRail services suspended over 90mph Storm Isha winds |date=21 January 2024 |access-date=21 January 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• 22 January – ScotRail announces another suspension of train services from 7pm the following day ahead of the arrival of Storm Jocelyn.{{cite web |first=Caitlyn |last=Dewar |url=https://news.stv.tv/scotland/scotrail-services-to-be-halted-again-on-tuesday-as-scotland-set-to-be-hit-by-70mph-winds-by-storm-jocelyn |title=Storm Jocelyn forces train services to be suspended across Scotland |publisher=STV |work=STV News |date=22 January 2024 |access-date=22 January 2024}}
• 23 January – The Rail Accident Investigation Branch launches an investigation into a collision between a train and a fallen tree at 84 mph (135 kmh) at Broughty Ferry on the Dundee–Aberdeen line during Storm Gerrit in December 2023.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-68067242 |title=Investigation after train hit fallen tree at Broughty Ferry |date=23 January 2024 |access-date=23 January 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• 26 January – French Holocaust denier Vincent Reynouard, who spent two years on the run in Scotland before being apprehended by police in November 2022, loses his appeal against extradition to France, where he faces charges of inciting hatred and denying the occurrence of the Holocaust.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-68109156 |title=Holocaust denier to be extradited after losing legal battle |date=26 January 2024 |access-date=26 January 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• 28 January – The Met Office records a provisional peak temperature of 19.6 °C (67.3 °F) at Kinlochewe in the Scottish Highlands, setting a new record for January temperatures in the area.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-68119951 |title=Weather record for warmest January set in Scottish Highlands |date=28 January 2024 |access-date=28 January 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• 29 January –
• Edinburgh City Council implements a ban on pavement parking.{{Cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-67877916 |title=Edinburgh to enforce pavement parking ban from January 29 |date=3 January 2024 |access-date=3 January 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• Engineers begin four days of work to install netting above the railway at Ratho to prevent potential rockfall, causing disruption to Central Belt railway services while the work is carried out.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-68117192 |title=Rail disruption warning over rockfall works |date=28 January 2024 |access-date=28 January 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• Robert O'Brian and Andrew Kelly are to appeal against their sentences for the murder of Caroline Glachan.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-68131658 |title=Caroline Glachan murderers to appeal life sentences |date=29 January 2024 |access-date=29 January 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• 31 January – The Scottish Government confirms it will introduce a ban on the sale and exchange of American XL bully dogs from 23 February, while a licence to own one will be required from 31 July.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-68159892 |title=American XL bully ban dates confirmed for Scotland |date=31 January 2024 |access-date=31 January 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}

• 1 February –
• Scottish Water confirms that water bills will increase by 8.8% from April.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjqjw48n79qo |title=Scotland set for 8.8% increase in water bills |date=1 February 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=1 February 2024}}
• Honshu, a seven-year-old male Japanese macaque who escaped from the Highland Wildlife Park at Kincraig, is recaptured after five days on the run.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cv2vp80k3n8o |title=Monkey caught in Highland garden after five days on the loose |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |date=1 February 2024 |access-date=1 February 2024}}
• 3 February –
• A bus driver, subsequently named as Keith Rollinson, dies in hospital at Elgin following an assault at a bus station in the town the previous evening. A 15-year-old boy is subsequently arrested and charged with murder.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-68198470 |title=Bus driver who died after alleged assault in Elgin named |date=4 February 2024 |access-date=4 February 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• Transport Scotland has put forward proposals for road tunnels linking parts of the Western Isles, and linking Mull to the mainland.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw0rwjy2j5ro |title=Tunnels to Scottish islands in new Transport Scotland plan |date=3 February 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=3 February 2024}}
• 4 February –
• The Scottish Information Commissioner, which oversees Scotland's freedom of information laws, launches a probe into the Scottish Government's use of informal messaging such as WhatsApp after "significant practice concerns" were raised by the UK COVID-19 Inquiry.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz9mv37l969o |title=Probe launched into Scottish government's informal messages |date=4 February 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=4 February 2024}}
• The Met Office issues a yellow warning for floods for western and northern Scotland as the country experiences heavy rainfall.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-68198324 |title=Flooding risk for Scotland as heavy rain expected |date=4 February 2024 |access-date=4 February 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• 6 February – Elena Whitham resigns from the post of Minister for Drugs and Alcohol Policy for health reasons.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-68217946 |title=Drugs minister Elena Whitham quits due to post-traumatic stress |date=6 February 2024 |access-date=6 February 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• 8 February –
• Michael Matheson resigns as Scotland's Health Secretary ahead of the publication of a report into £11,000 of data roaming charges accrued by his Parliamentary iPad. He is replaced by Neil Gray.{{Cite web |first=Angus |last=Cochrane |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-68242228 |title=Neil Gray replaces Michael Matheson as Scottish health secretary |date=8 February 2024 |access-date=8 February 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• The Scottish Government announces a rise in the minimum unit price for alcohol from 50p to 65p from April, subject to parliamentary approval.{{Cite web |first1=Katy |last1=Scott |first2=Angus |last2=Cochrane |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-68238846 |title=Minimum alcohol unit price in Scotland to rise to 65p |date=8 February 2024 |access-date=8 February 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• Edinburgh City Council says that 200 people have been fined since it introduced a ban on pavement parking on 29 January.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2xje4zrvvpo |title=Edinburgh drivers hit with 200 pavement parking fines in a week |date=8 February 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=8 February 2024}}
• 9 February – Donald Cameron, a Conservative list MSP for the Highlands and Islands, announces he is standing down from the Scottish Parliament to take up a seat in the House of Lords and a junior ministerial post in the Scottish Office.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-68258641 |title=Tory MSP Donald Cameron to take up House of Lords seat |date=9 February 2024 |access-date=9 February 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• 10 February – Police Scotland are investigating 22 deaths that occurred at the Fullarton Care Home in Irvine, North Ayrshire during the COVID-19 pandemic. The home was one of the worst affected during the early days of the pandemic.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3g0p08vgg3o |title=Police probe Covid deaths of Irvine care home residents |date=10 February 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=10 February 2024}}
• 12 February –
• Actor and writer Simon Fanshawe is named the new Rector of the University of Edinburgh, succeeding Debora Kayembe.{{Cite web |first=Craig |last=Williams |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-68272222 |title=Activist Simon Fanshawe named as University of Edinburgh rector |date=12 February 2024 |access-date=12 February 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• A man is arrested and charged over several acts of vandalism in Glasgow, including graffiti relating to the Gaza conflict daubed on the city's cenotaph.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c72grzx9wv4o |title=Man charged over vandalism of Glasgow cenotaph |date=12 February 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=12 February 2024}}
• 13 February – Former NHS worker Tracy Menhinick, who gave a young boy "industrial amounts" of the laxative lactulose, is found guilty of poisoning the child following a 19-day trial at the High Court in Aberdeen.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-68276710 |title=Former Aberdeen NHS worker guilty of poisoning young boy |date=13 February 2024 |access-date=13 February 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• 14 February – Jordan Mitchell, who spoke about his desire to commit mass murder in Falkirk during a hospital visit, and who said he had killed animals, is given an Order for Lifelong Restriction by the Court of Criminal Appeal.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-68250528 |title=Man who threatened mass murder in Falkirk given life sentence |date=14 February 2024 |access-date=14 February 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• 15 February – Glasgow City Council and North Lanarkshire Council vote to freeze council tax for the 2024–25 financial year.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c89n5vg1zx7o |title=Glasgow and North Lanarkshire vote to freeze council tax |date=15 February 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=15 February 2024}}
• 16 February –
• Former footballer Ciaran Dickson is sentenced to six years in prison by the High Court in Glasgow for the hit-and-run killing of Aidan Pilkington in September 2021, when he was more than three times over the drink drive limit.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-68316673 |title=Footballer Ciaran Dickson jailed for killing teenager in hit-and-run |date=16 February 2024 |access-date=16 February 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• Scotland is to scrap its Super 6 rugby series and reinstate a national "A team" as part of a comprehensive restructuring programme.{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/68314850 |title=Scottish Rugby scraps Super 6 club competition |access-date=16 February 2024 |work=BBC Sport |publisher=BBC}}
• 17 February –
• Delegates at the Scottish Labour Party conference pass a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.{{Cite web |first=Paul |last=Hastie |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-68325563 |title=Scottish Labour backs motion for 'immediate ceasefire' in Gaza |date=17 February 2024 |access-date=17 February 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• Two men are killed in a road traffic accident involving three cars on the B9077 in Maryculter, Aberdeenshire.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw8j2509l81o |title=Two men killed in three-car crash in Aberdeenshire |date=18 February 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=18 February 2024}}
• 20 February –
• Heather Woodbridge, aged 29, is appointed as leader of Orkney Islands Council, becoming Scotland's youngest council leader and the first woman to lead Orkney Islands Council.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-68278738 |title=Orkney appoints Scotland's youngest council leader |date=20 February 2024 |access-date=20 February 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• The BBC announces plans to reshape the BBC Scotland TV channel, including axing the hour-long news programme The Nine and replacing it with a 30-minute programme.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-68346649 |title=BBC Scotland to scrap news programme The Nine |date=20 February 2024 |access-date=20 February 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• 22 February – Argyll and Bute Council votes to raise its council tax by 10%, and rejects the Scottish Government's council tax freeze by doing so.{{Cite web |first=Megan |last=Bonar |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgx555lvv39o |title=Argyll and Bute votes to raise council tax by 10% |date=22 February 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=22 February 2024}}
• 23 February – The Scottish Government publishes draft legislation proposing a ban on the sale of disposable vapes in Scotland by 1 April 2025.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-68380853 |title=Single-use vapes could be banned in Scotland by April 2025 |date=23 February 2024 |access-date=24 February 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• 24 February – Police Scotland begins an investigation after burnt human remains are found near Motherwell Football Club.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-68391890 |title=Burned body found near football pitch in Motherwell |date=24 February 2024 |access-date=24 February 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• 25 February – The Scottish Government confirms that Economy Secretary Màiri McAllan, who is pregnant, will take maternity leave during the summer, becoming the second Scottish Government minister to do so.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-68396875 |title=Economy secretary to take maternity leave in summer |date=25 February 2024 |access-date=25 February 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• 26 February –
• Police say there are no suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of a man whose burnt body was found on a football pitch.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2j5jvm45kgo |title=No suspicious circumstances in Motherwell burning body death |date=26 February 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=26 February 2024}}
• First Minister Humza Yousaf describes council tax rises in Scotland as "unjustifiable".{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-68400696 |title=Scottish council tax rises are unjustifiable – Humza Yousaf |date=26 February 2024 |access-date=26 February 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• 27 February –
• MSPs vote 68–55 in favour of the 2024 Scottish budget, which includes a council tax freeze and 45% and 48% income tax rates for higher earners.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-68405657 |title=Scottish government budget passes final vote |date=27 February 2024 |access-date=27 February 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• Fergus Ewing loses his appeal against a week-long suspension from the SNP group at Holyrood in September 2023 after he criticised the party leadership.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-68418793 |title=Fergus Ewing loses appeal against SNP suspension |date=27 February 2024 |access-date=27 February 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• 28 February – Following a trial at the High Court in Glasgow, Iain Packer is found guilty of the April 2005 murder of Emma Caldwell, a sex worker whose body was found in woods five weeks after she disappeared from Glasgow. Packer, who is also convicted of 32 other offences against women, including rapes and sexual assaults, is sentenced to at least 36 years in prison, the second longest prison sentence to be handed out by a Scottish court.{{Cite web |first=Megan |last=Bonar |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-68304929 |title=Emma Caldwell's killer jailed for at least 36 years |date=28 February 2024 |access-date=28 February 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• 29 February –
• Aberdeen City Council is rehoming tenants in around 500 properties following the discovery of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-68435223 |title=Hundreds to be rehomed in Aberdeen over RAAC fears |date=29 February 2024 |access-date=29 February 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• Inverclyde Council announces an 8.2% raise in council tax, becoming the second local authority to go against the Scottish Government's wish for a council tax freeze.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-68441272 |title=Inverclyde is second council to defy tax freeze |date=29 February 2024 |access-date=29 February 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}

• 1 March – First Minister Humza Yousaf announces that his wife, Nadia El-Nakla, is expecting a baby in July, making him the first Scottish First Minister to become a parent while in office.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-68445796 |title=Humza Yousaf and wife expecting baby in July |date=1 March 2024 |access-date=2 March 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• 7 March –
• The Scottish Government announces an independent public inquiry into the police handling of the Emma Caldwell murder investigation.{{Cite web |first1=Katy |last1=Scott |first2=David |last2=Cowan |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-68504679 |title=Public inquiry into Emma Caldwell police failings |date=7 March 2024 |access-date=8 March 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• Police Scotland announces it will no longer investigate every low level crime following the success of a pilot project.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-68501949 |title=Police Scotland will not investigate every crime |date=7 March 2024 |access-date=8 March 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• 8 March – The creators of Wirdle, a Shetland dialect version of the Wordle game, announce the game's withdrawal following legal threats from The New York Times, owners of the original game.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c03rz74jy3zo |title=New York Times legal threat to Shetland Wordle |date=8 March 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=8 March 2024}}
• 9 March – A Daily Telegraph report alleging a conflict-of-interest involving First Minister Humza Yousaf after the Scottish Government donated £250,000 to the UN agency UNRWA, which supports Palestinian refugees, is rejected by Yousaf as an "outrageous smear" and a "far right conspiracy".{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0d2wnlek2o |title=Yousaf condemns 'outrageous smear' over Scottish government's Gaza funding |date=9 March 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=9 March 2024}}
• 10 March –
• The Duke of Edinburgh is awarded the Order of the Thistle by Charles III, Scotland's highest royal honour.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-68520949 |title=King Charles appoints Duke of Edinburgh to Scotland's Order of the Thistle |date=10 March 2024 |access-date=10 March 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• Creative Scotland launches an investigation into a decision to provide nearly £85,000 of public money for an arts project involving "hardcore" sex performances.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3gmvyxexlzo |title=Arts body to investigate £85k funding for 'hardcore' sex project |date=10 March 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=10 March 2024}}
• 11 March – The driver of a double decker bus is arrested after the vehicle's roof is ripped off after crashing into a railway bridge in West Lothian. No passengers were aboard the bus at the time.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-68534379 |title=Double decker bus roof ripped off in Fauldhouse bridge crash |date=11 March 2024 |access-date=11 March 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• 12 March – Professor Jason Leitch announces he will leave his role as National Clinical Director at the end of April.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-68547686 |title=Jason Leitch to step down as national clinical director |date=12 March 2024 |access-date=12 March 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• 13 March – Five people are taken to hospital for treatment after a bus crashes into a high rise block of flats in Paisley, Glasgow.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-68556721 |title=Five taken to hospital after bus crashes into Paisley flats |date=13 March 2024 |access-date=13 March 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• 14 March –
• The Scottish Parliament Corporate Body finds Michael Matheson in breach of the Ministerial Code over his £11,000 iPad bill.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-68568313 |title=Michael Matheson breached code of conduct over iPad bill |date=14 March 2024 |access-date=14 March 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• Mountaineer Anna Wells becomes the first woman to reach the top of all of Scotland's 282 Munros in one winter season.{{Cite web |first=Steven |last=McKenzie |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckk726lkx7po |title=Inverness climber completes Scotland's Winter Munro Round |date=14 March 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=14 March 2024}}
• 15 March – Following trial and conviction at the High Court in Glasgow, double murderer Peter Duffy is sentenced to at least 30 years in prison for the murder of his wife, Emma Baillie, and brother, John-Paul Duffy, in separate incidents in Coatbridge in 2022.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2xvr8r2jgmo |title=Double murderer is warned he may never be released from prison |date=15 March 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=15 March 2024}}
• 17 March – HMP Kilmarnock becomes the first privately run prison in Scotland to pass into the ownership of the Scottish Prison Service after its contract with Serco comes to an end.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-68591690 |title=HMP Kilmarnock transfers into public ownership |date=17 March 2024 |access-date=17 March 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• 19 March – Scottish Prison Service director Allister Purdie gives evidence to the Scottish COVID-19 Inquiry, and apologises to the family of Callum Inglis, who died at Addiewell Prison during the pandemic, after his family learned of the death through word of mouth before they were told formally by prison authorities.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-68607460 |title=Prison service apology over inmate's Covid death |date=19 March 2024 |access-date=19 March 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• 21 March –
• The Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body confirms that members of Scottish Parliament staff will no longer be allowed to wear rainbow lanyards, or any other badge or jewellery associated with social issues, while at Holyrood.{{Cite web |first=David Wallace |last=Lockhart |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-68629616 |title=Scottish Parliament staff banned from wearing rainbow lanyard |date=21 March 2024 |access-date=21 March 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• The Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Bill passes its final vote in the Scottish Parliament. Among measures it introduces is a licensing scheme for land where grouse shooting takes place, and regulations for traps.{{Cite web |first=Calum |last=Watson |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-68619141 |title='Gamechanger' Scottish wildlife law passes final vote |date=21 March 2024 |access-date=21 March 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• 22 March –
• A report prepared by Stirling University calls for artificial 3G football pitches to be banned in Scotland because they contain potentially cancer causing chemicals.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crg69wrp9y8o |title=Report calls for ban on artificial 3G sports pitches in Scotland |date=22 March 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=22 March 2024}}
• Jasmin Paris from Midlothian becomes the first woman to complete the Barkley Marathons in the US state of Tennessee, doing so with one minute 39 seconds to spare of the 60-hour cut off.{{Cite web |first=Angie |last=Brown |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-68643341 |title=Jasmin Paris first woman to complete gruelling Barkley Marathons race |date=23 March 2024 |access-date=23 March 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• 27 March –
• Following a three-week hearing at Edinburgh Sheriff Court, former private school teacher John Brownlee, who worked at the Edinburgh Academy between 1967 and 1987, is found to have physically abused bos in his charge. He will not face trial though as he was earlier deemed to be medically unfit to do so.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-68679000 |title=Nicky Campbell 'wept' as judge said teacher was an abuser |date=27 March 2024 |access-date=27 March 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• A group calling itself INC Ransom threatens to publish data stolen from NHS Dumfries and Galloway.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3g5r9g45n4o |title=Hackers threaten to publish huge cache of NHS Scotland data |date=27 March 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=27 March 2024}}
• VisitScotland announces that its 25 information centres will close over the next two years.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-68675056 |title=VisitScotland to close all information centres by 2026 |date=27 March 2024 |access-date=27 March 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• 28 March – The Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill, a bill to legalise assisted dying in Scotland and drafted by Liberal Democrat MSP Liam McArthur, is introduced into the Scottish Parliament.{{Cite web |first=James |last=Cook |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-68674769 |title=Could assisted dying be coming to Scotland? |date=27 March 2024 |access-date=28 March 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}

• 1 April – The Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021, which creates a new crime of "stirring up hatred" relating to age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, transgender identity or being intersex, comes into force in Scotland.{{Cite web |first=James |last=Cook |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-68703684 |title=Scotland's new hate crime law comes into force |date=1 April 2024 |access-date=1 April 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• 2 April –
• The Scottish Government publishes a consultation on legislation to ban egg producers from housing chickens in cages in Scotland.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-68718569 |title=Scotland proposes UK's first ban on caging laying hens |date=2 April 2024 |access-date=2 April 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• Police Scotland says that comments challenging Scotland's new hate crime law made by the author J K Rowling are not being treated as a crime.{{Cite web |first1=Megan |last1=Bonar |first2=Katy |last2=Scott |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-68712471 |title=JK Rowling hate law posts not criminal, police say |date=2 April 2024 |access-date=2 April 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• 6 April – Changes to Income tax in Scotland come into force, with a new "Advanced" rate for those earning over £75,000.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce5e572rre4o |title=Scottish income tax changes come into force |date=6 April 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=6 April 2024}}
• 8 April –
• Ritlecitinib, provided under the brand name Litfulo and used to treat the most common forms of alopecia, is licensed for use by the NHS in Scotland.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ceke95993rlo |title=Alopecia drug approved for treatment in NHS in Scotland |date=8 April 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=9 April 2024}}
• Father and son Ian and Dean McLeod are sentenced to life imprisonment with minimum terms of 34 years for the 2022 murders of Derek Johnston and Desmond Rowlings with the use of a blowtorch at a flat in Edinburgh.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ced03gpjqg2o |title=Father and son blowtorch murderers jailed for life |date=8 April 2024 |website=BBC News |access-date=9 April 2024 |publisher=BBC}}
• 9 April – Former NHS worker Tracy Menhinick is sentenced to seven years in prison after poisoning a young boy with "industrial" amounts of laxative.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-68537940 |title=Former Aberdeen NHS worker jailed for poisoning young boy |date=9 April 2024 |access-date=9 April 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• 10 April – Police Scotland says it received 7,000 online reports of alleged hate crimes during the first week of new laws enacted by the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2x3ljydn67o |title=More than 7,000 hate crime reports in first week of new law |date=10 April 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=10 April 2024}}
• 11 April – Glasgow is named as a potential host of the 2026 Commonwealth Games following Victoria's July 2023 decision to withdraw as host because of rising costs.{{Cite web |first=Richard |last=Winton |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/commonwealth-games/68792008 |title=Commonwealth Games 2026: Scaled-down Glasgow event option for event |date=11 April 2024 |access-date=11 April 2024 |work=BBC Sport |publisher=BBC}}
• 14 April – First Minister Humza Yousaf condemns Iran's attack against Israel, describing it as an "extremely worrying development.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-68812837 |title=FM condemns attack on Israel and repeats ceasefire call |date=14 April 2024 |access-date=14 April 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• 15 April – Police Scotland make their first two arrests for alleged offences breaching the Hunting with Dogs (Scotland) Act 2023.{{Cite web |first=David |last=Knox |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3g5q07j9d9o |title=Arrests made under Scotland's new fox hunt laws |date=15 April 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=16 April 2024}}
• 17 April – MSPs vote to increase the minimum alcohol price by 30% from September, when alcoholic drinks will rise from 50p to 65p per unit, with the increase in line with inflation.{{Cite web |first=Georgina |last=Hayes |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgrjyqlqedpo |title=Minimum unit pricing: Scottish MSPs to increase price to 65p |date=16 April 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=17 April 2024}}
• 18 April –
• Peter Murrell, the former chief executive of the Scottish National Party (SNP) and husband of Nicola Sturgeon, is re-arrested by Police Scotland and charged in connection with the embezzlement of funds from the SNP.{{Cite web |first=Katy |last=Scott |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-68850088 |title=Peter Murrell charged with embezzlement in SNP finance probe |date=18 April 2024 |access-date=18 April 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}} Murrell also resigns his membership of the SNP.{{Cite web|url=https://www.thenational.scot/news/24263688.peter-murrell-resigns-snp-membership-following-embezzlement-charge/ |title=Peter Murrell resigns SNP membership following embezzlement charge |date=18 April 2024 |website=The National |access-date=18 April 2024}}
• The Scottish Government scraps its target of achieving Net Zero by 2030, as well as annual and interim targets for reducing greenhouse gases, and instead replaces them with a system measuring emissions every five years.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-68847434 |title=Scottish government scraps climate change targets |date=18 April 2024 |access-date=18 April 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• Following a review of gender services in England, NHS Scotland pauses the use of puberty blockers for children in Scotland, while Glasgow's Sandyford Clinic says 16- and 17-year-olds will need to wait until they are 18 to be prescribed the drugs.{{Cite news |first=Mary |last=McCool |date=18 April 2024 |title=Puberty blockers paused for children in Scotland |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-68844119 |access-date=18 April 2024 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}
• 19 April –
• At the High Court in Glasgow, Kristofer Johnstone is sentenced to ten years in prison after being convicted of the rape and abuse of two girls between 2003 and 2018.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6pyjd7pl12o |title=Man jailed for 10 years for rape of two girls |date=19 April 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=19 April 2024}}
• The Scottish Greens announce their intention to hold a vote on whether to stay in government with the Scottish National Party following the SNP's decision to scrap key climate targets.{{Cite web |first1=Megan |last1=Bonar |first2=James |last2=Cook |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cekl2v3124go |title=Scottish Greens to vote on SNP power-sharing agreement after climate target ditched |date=19 April 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=20 April 2024}}
• 20 April – BBC News reports that the SNP will form a minority government if the Scottish Greens vote to end their power-sharing agreement.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4n1458z6n8o |title=SNP to form minority government if Greens scrap power-sharing deal |date=20 April 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=20 April 2024}}
• 21 April – A 20-year-old man is charged after a car appeared to drive at pro-independence marchers in Glasgow the previous day.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c06035xlkvlo |title=Man charged after car 'driven at Scottish independence marchers' |date=21 April 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=21 April 2024}}
• 22 April –
• Donna Marie Brand, one of three people convicted of the 1996 murder of Caroline Glachan, is sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum of 17 years.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw4d7k1vello |title=Caroline Glachan murder: Woman jailed for killing schoolgirl |date=22 April 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=22 April 2024}}
• John-Paul McLaughlan is sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum of 17 years after admitting the murder of his partner, Stacey Warnock, who was stabbed multiple times following an argument at the couple's home in December 2022.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2x31v0058eo |title=Man jailed for 17 years for brutal murder of partner in Airdrie |date=22 April 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=22 April 2024}}
• NHS Dumfries and Galloway apologises for any anxiety caused by a cyberattack, described as a "targeted and continued incursion", which occurred in March.{{Cite web |first=Giancarlo |last=Rinaldi |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckken5w6v2vo |title=NHS Dumfries and Galloway sorry for cyber attack anxiety |date=22 April 2024 |website=BBC News |access-date=22 April 2024 |publisher=BBC}}
• 23 April –
• Two people are taken to hospital after a light aircraft crashes at Monkton near Prestwick Airport.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-68884436 |title=Two airlifted to hospital after light aircraft crashes near Prestwick Airport |date=23 April 2024 |access-date=23 April 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• 2024 Scottish government crisis: Patrick Harvie says he will resign as co-leader of the Scottish Greens if the party votes to end its coalition agreement with the SNP.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqvn3jnj1z5o |title=Green co-leader will quit if party ends power-sharing deal |date=23 April 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=23 April 2024}}
• 25 April – 2024 Scottish government crisis: The Scottish National Party's coalition in the Scottish government with the Scottish Greens collapses as the SNP withdraws. The SNP announce their intention to continue as a minority government. The Scottish Conservatives call a no confidence vote in First Minister Humza Yousaf.{{Cite news |date=25 April 2024 |title=SNP's power-sharing deal with the Scottish Greens collapses |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-68895400 |access-date=25 April 2024 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}
• 26 April – 2024 Scottish government crisis: Humza Yousaf says he will not resign as first minister of Scotland despite facing a motion of no confidence in his government.{{Cite news |date=26 April 2024 |title=Humza Yousaf 'absolutely' not resigning ahead of no confidence vote |url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/24280789.yousaf-absolutely-not-resigning-ahead-no-confidence-vote/ |access-date=26 April 2024 |work=The Herald}}
• 28 April – 2024 Scottish government crisis: BBC News reports that Yousaf has ruled out an electoral pact between the SNP and Alba Party after Alex Salmond suggested the party would support him in a vote of no confidence in the Scottish Parliament.{{Cite web |first=James |last=Cook |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-68914409 |title=Humza Yousaf rules out pact with Alex Salmond's Alba party |date=27 April 2024 |access-date=28 April 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• 29 April – 2024 Scottish government crisis: Yousaf announces his resignation as both leader of the SNP and first minister of Scotland when his successor is chosen.{{Cite news |date=29 April 2024 |title=Humza Yousaf to quit as Scotland's first minister|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-68918151 |access-date=29 April 2024|work=BBC News}}
• 30 April – Officials at Holyrood confirm that Labour's motion of no confidence in the Scottish Government will be voted on by MSPs the next day.{{cite web |first=Craig |last=Meighan |url=https://news.stv.tv/politics/labour-no-confidence-vote-against-scottish-government-to-go-ahead |title=Labour no-confidence vote against Scottish Government to go ahead |publisher=STV |work=STV News |date=30 April 2024 |access-date=30 April 2024}}

• 1 May – MSPs vote 70–58 to defeat a motion of no confidence in the Scottish Government.{{Cite web|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/1/scottish-government-survives-confidence-vote-after-hamza-yusuf-quits |title=Scottish government survives confidence vote |website=Al Jazeera |date=1 May 2024 |access-date=1 May 2024}}
• 2 May – John Swinney is set to become the next SNP leader and first minister after Kate Forbes confirms she will not seek the party's leadership.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c88zvgl9y9go|title=Swinney looks set to be first minister as Forbes backs him|work=BBC News|date=2 May 2024|access-date=2 May 2024}}
• 5 May – John Swinney warns that any bid to challenge his election as leader would delay rebuilding the party amid reports party activist Graeme McCormick is set to put his name forward.{{Cite web |first=Jonathan |last=Geddes |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cxx8644y98wo |title=John Swinney warns of SNP rebuild delay if leader bid challenged |date=5 May 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=5 May 2024}} He subsequently announces he will not launch a challenge and endorses Swinney.{{Cite web|url=https://news.sky.com/story/snp-leadership-challenger-graeme-mccormick-pulls-out-of-race-13130302 |title=Graeme McCormick pulls out of SNP leadership race paving way for John Swinney |website=Sky News |date=5 May 2024 |access-date=5 May 2024}}
• 6 May – John Swinney is confirmed as Leader of the Scottish National Party after being unopposed in the leadership election, and begins his second tenure in the post.{{Cite web |first=Angus |last=Cochrane |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c72pk2qpqevo |title=John Swinney wins SNP leadership unopposed |date=6 May 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=6 May 2024}}
• 7 May – John Swinney wins the backing of the Scottish Parliament to become Scotland's seventh First Minister, and will be sworn into office the next day.{{Cite web |first=Angus |last=Cochrane |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0de2ke9vjdo |title=John Swinney wins nomination to be Scotland's first minister |date=7 May 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=7 May 2024}}
• 8 May –
• John Swinney is sworn in as Scotland's seventh first minister at a ceremony at the Court of Session in Edinburgh.{{cite web |first1=James |last1=Cook |first2=Mary |last2=McCool |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-68973772 |title=John Swinney sworn in as Scotland's first minister |publisher=BBC |work=BBC News |date=8 May 2024 |access-date=8 May 2024}}
• Swinney appoints Kate Forbes as Scotland's Deputy First Minister.{{Cite web |first=Jenness |last=Mitchell |url=https://news.sky.com/story/kate-forbes-appointed-deputy-first-minister-of-scotland-13131497 |title=Scottish First Minister John Swinney unveils cabinet as Kate Forbes becomes deputy |website=Sky News |date=8 May 2024 |access-date=8 May 2024}}
• Plans to redevelop Glasgow's Met Tower as a digital technology hub are cancelled, with the company behind the redevelopment citing "significant changes" to economic conditions and the construction market.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz9lqv270w2o |title=People Make Glasgow building project is cancelled |date=8 May 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=8 May 2024}}
• 9 May – Swinney confirms to the BBC that the SNP's strategy of using the next general election as a mandate for a second referendum on Scottish independence remains.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c14kykvgle1o |title=Swinney says no change in SNP independence referendum strategy |date=9 May 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=9 May 2024}}
• 10 May –
• Food Standards Scotland confirms a case of BSE has been found on a farm in Ayrshire, but says there is no risk to the public as the animal did not enter the food chain.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw4dqnj1pjko |title=BSE: 'Mad cow disease' case found on farm in Scotland |date=10 May 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=10 May 2024}}
• The Scottish Government reaffirms its wish to see the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill enacted.{{Cite web |first=David Wallace |last=Lockhart |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c97zv90d77do |title=Scottish government remains committed to gender reform bill |date=10 May 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=10 May 2024}}
• 11 May – Scotland's warmest day of the year so far is recorded by the Met Office, with a temperature of 25.7 °C at Cassley.{{Cite web |first=Jacob |last=Panons |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3glq9z2pd2o |title=UK records hottest day of the year so far |date=11 May 2024 |access-date=11 May 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• 13 May – At the High Court in Kilmarnock, Uber driver Kunathilinghan Mohanthas is sentenced to seven years in prison for killing Christopher Hanton, who he left for dead in Glasgow city centre after ordering him out of his car and knocking him over as he performed a three-point turn in August 2023.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crgyy635ezlo |title=Glasgow Uber driver jailed for killing man he ordered out of car |date=13 May 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=13 May 2024}}
• 14 May – MSPs unanimously approve the Housing Cladding Remediation Bill with 116 votes in favour of the legislation that seeks to address problems with cladding on buildings and avoid a similar incident to the Grenfell Tower fire in Scotland.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c80zznw8zg9o |title=Scottish ministers given new powers to tackle cladding |date=14 May 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=14 May 2024}}
• 15 May –
• The Scottish Government declares a national housing emergency during a parliamentary debate at Holyrood, citing UK government budget cuts and austerity as the reasons for a shortage in housing.{{Cite web |first=David Wallace |last=Lockhart |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4n11j180lzo |title=Scottish government declares national housing emergency |date=15 May 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=15 May 2024}}
• Justice Secretary Angela Constance confirms that the Scottish Government are to seek powers to facilitate the early release of prisoners in order to prevent overcrowding in prisons. The rules would only apply to those serving under four years and would not apply to those convicted of sexual or domestic violence related offences.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c72p258g99jo |title=Scottish prisoners to be released early to ease overcrowding |date=15 May 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=16 May 2024}}
• 18 May – Four police officers are injured and 19 arrests made in Glasgow city centre as fans celebrate after Celtic win the Premiership.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3ggk77ggvzo |title=Football celebration damage 'unacceptable' – council |date=19 May 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=19 May 2024}}
• 21 May –
• Scottish culture secretary Angus Robertson calls for an urgent meeting with Creative Scotland after an arts project involving real sex was given over £100,000 in government funding.{{Cite web |date=21 May 2024 |title=Culture secretary demands answers on explicit art show |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ceqq04v75p9o |access-date=21 May 2024 |website=BBC News |language=en-GB}}
• Aberdeen sheriff Jack Brown is to be removed from office over sexual harassment allegations after a tribunal finds he has committed "serious improper conduct" towards two women.{{Cite web |first=Graeme |last=Ogston |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn00ynxp2ero |title=Sheriff accused of sexual harassment removed from office |date=21 May 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=21 May 2024}}
• 23 May –
• Police Scotland announces that it has submitted a "standard prosecution report" concerning its investigation into SNP finances to the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn00rlnd2ygo |title=Police submit SNP finances report to prosecutors |date=23 May 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=23 May 2024}}
• First Minister John Swinney announces he will not accept a parliamentary committee ruling to exclude Michael Matheson from Holyrood for 27 days over his £11,000 iPad charges bill, claiming the decision is "prejudiced" due to the involvement of a Conservative MSP who previously made comments about Matheson.{{Cite web |first=Angus |last=Cochrane |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c999r0r0g72o |title=Swinney will not support Matheson ban over £11,000 iPad bill |date=23 May 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=23 May 2024}}
• 25 May –
• The Faculty of Advocates finds Andrew Smith KC guilty of serious misconduct over "serious and reprehensible" actions relating to a legal case involving a dating app business in which he had a "close personal involvement".{{Cite web |first=Mark |last=Daly |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqqqdr5kndeo |title=Top Scottish KC Andrew Smith found guilty of professional misconduct |date=25 May 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=25 May 2024}}
• Celtic defeat Rangers 1–0 to win the 2024 Scottish Cup final.{{Cite web |first=Thomas |last=Duncan |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/live/c6pp95v719jt |title=Celtic v Rangers: Watch Old Firm Scottish Cup final at Hampden |website=BBC Sport |publisher=BBC |date=25 May 2024 |access-date=25 May 2024}}
• 29 May –
• MSPs vote 64–0 to exclude former Health Secretary Michael Matheson from the Scottish Parliament for 27 sitting days, and to suspend his salary for 54 days, after he breached expenses rules by accululating an £11,000 bill on his parliamentary iPad. The governing SNP abstains from voting, and calls for a review of the complaints procedure, suggesting it could be open to bias.{{Cite web |first=Angus |last=Cochrane |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp00ved057jo |title=Michael Matheson given record Holyrood ban over iPad scandal |date=29 May 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=29 May 2024}}
• Dundee becomes the second city in Scotland to introduce a low emission zone.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckvv8qzw0w3o |title=Low Emission Zone: Dundee becomes second city to enforce LEZ |date=29 May 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=29 May 2024}}
• 30 May – Police searching for a father and son missing after hillwalking in Glen Coe confirm they have found two bodies.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c288w90x2kyo |title=Bodies found in search for missing father and son |website=BBC News |date=30 May 2024 |access-date=30 May 2024}}
• 31 May – Scotland's UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifier match against Israel is delayed after a protestor padlocks himself to the goalposts at Hampden Park.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0jjg284x83o |title=Protester chains himself to goalposts at Scotland v Israel Euro qualifier |date=31 May 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=31 May 2024}} A 24-year-old man is subsequently charged over the incident.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5117ep9ee5o |title=Man charged after protest at Scotland v Israel match |date=1 June 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=1 June 2024}}

• 1 June – Aberdeen and Edinburgh become the latest Scottish cities to introduce low emission zones.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4nn2ewrxggo |title=Aberdeen and Edinburgh become latest Scottish LEZ cities |date=31 May 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=1 June 2024}}
• 2 June – A memorial service is held at Southend Parish Church to mark the 30th anniversary of the 1994 RAF Chinook disaster in which 29 passengers and crew were killed.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqqq0x69gego |title=Service held to mark 30 years since RAF Chinook disaster |date=2 June 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=2 June 2024}}
• 3 June – The first 2024 general election leaders debate takes place in Scotland, with the leaders of Scotland's four main political parties taking part in a debate on STV.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0ddlkp9g9do |title=Party leaders clash over North Sea industry in election debate |date=3 June 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=4 June 2024}}
• 5 June – Alba Party leader Alex Salmond confirms he will not stand in the general election, but instead plans to stand in the 2026 Scottish Parliament election in Banff and Buchan.{{Cite web |first=Alex |last=Scott |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crgg5x1nlw8o|title=Alex Salmond will not stand in general election |date=5 June 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=5 June 2024}}
• 7 June – At the High Court in Edinburgh, council worker Michael Paterson admits to embezzling more than £1m from Aberdeen City Council while employed as a council tax and recovery team leader between 2006 and 2023.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8vve153910o |title=Aberdeen Council employee embezzled more than £1m over 17 years |date=7 June 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=7 June 2024}}
• 9 June – The Sunday Mail reports allegations that Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross used Westminster expenses to travel in his role as a football linesman.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckvvzv4pvj1o |title=Ross travel expenses allegations 'significant' – Swinney |date=9 June 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=9 June 2024}}
• 10 June – Douglas Ross announces his resignation as leader of the Scottish Conservatives, triggering a leadership election. Ross says he will also resign from Holyrood if he is re-elected to Westminster.{{Cite web |first1=Mary |last1=McCool |first2=David Wallace |last2=Lockhart |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ceddenl8xz4o |title=Douglas Ross to resign as leader of Scottish Conservatives |date=10 June 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=10 June 2024}}
• 11 June –
• BBC Scotland airs an election debate featuring the leaders of Scotland's five main political parties: John Swinney (SNP), Douglas Ross (Scottish Conservatives), Anas Sarwar (Scottish Labour), Alex Cole-Hamilton (Scottish Liberal Democrats) and Lorna Slater (Scottish Greens).{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmmm8nz1l2yo |title=Who are the leaders of Scotland's political parties? |date=11 June 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=11 June 2024}}
• Robin Harper, a former leader of the Scottish Greens, joins Scottish Labour, citing his former party's failure on the environment for his decision.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cyxx9x773nlo |title=Former Scottish Greens leader Robin Harper joins Labour |date=11 June 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=11 June 2024}}
• 12 June –
• MSPs vote for the early release of 500 prisoners in order to ease overcrowding in the Scottish Prison Service.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd110pznng5o |title=Early release prisoners to ease overcrowding backed by MSPs |date=12 June 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=12 June 2024}}
• Edinburgh City Council approves plans by AEG to build an 8,500 capacity stadium at Edinburgh Park.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cglle38ldm5o |title=Plans for 8,500-capacity Edinburgh Park arena backed by council |date=12 June 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=12 June 2024}}
• 13 June – Stagecoach Group announces plaans to cut services in north Scotland as it launches a review of its operations.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw44jg54pn0o |title=Stagecoach to cut bus services amid north Scotland review |date=13 June 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=13 June 2024}}
• 14 June –
• Five Scotland fans are taken to hospital after their hire car crashed as they left an airport in Germany driving on the wrong side of the road.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1wwq1v3854o |title=Five Scotland fans in hospital after car crash in Germany |date=14 June 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=14 June 2024}}
• The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority clears Douglas Ross of misusing his travel expenses following an investigation.{{Cite web |first=Georgia |last=Roberts |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clee60wnd5qo |title=Douglas Ross cleared of travel expenses misuse by watchdog |date=14 June 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=14 June 2024}}
• The 2024 Birthday Honours are published. Among Scots to be recognised are former Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who becomes a Companion of Honour, and footballers Graeme Souness (CBE) and Ally McCoist (MBE).{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgll06r47dvo |title=Ex-PM Gordon Brown and football legend Graeme Souness in King's Honours list |date=14 June 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=15 June 2024}}
• 16 June – Aberdeen City Council cancels the 2024 Highland Games shortly before it is due to commence following "heavier than forecast" rain.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0ww2023z3lo |title=Aberdeen Highland Games cancelled by council after heavy rain |date=16 June 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=16 June 2024}}
• 17 June – NHS Dumfries and Galloway warns residents living in the area to assume some of their data has been published online after its database was hacked.{{Cite web |first=Katie |last=Hunter |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn00q132942o |title=NHS hack warning issued to everyone in Dumfries and Galloway |date=17 June 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=17 June 2024}}
• 18 June – Scottish Labour launches its general election manifesto.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw00lg9xdxdo |title=Scottish Labour launches 'manifesto for change' |date=18 June 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=18 June 2024}}
• 19 June –
• The Scottish National Party launches its election manifesto, with plans to "end Westminster cuts" and increase investment in the NHS.{{cite web|url=https://www.itv.com/news/2024-06-19/snp-pledge-to-end-westminster-cuts-and-boost-nhs-investment-in-manifesto |title=SNP issue warning to voters swaying to Labour and promise end to 'Westminster cuts' |publisher=ITV |work=ITV News |date=19 June 2024 |access-date=19 June 2024}} The party would also view winning a majority of Scotland's seats at Westminster as a mandate to begin independence negotiations.{{Cite web |first=Megan |last=Bonar |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c511w93ye7po |title=Majority would trigger independence talks – SNP manifesto |date=19 June 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=20 June 2024}}
• Labour suspends Andy Brown, its candidate for Aberdeenshire North and Moray East after he was found to have shared pro-Russian posts online.{{Cite web |first=Harry |last=Farley |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0vvjzw5ejno |title=General election 2024: Labour suspends candidate over 'pro-Russian' post |date=19 June 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=19 June 2024}}
• The Scottish Family Party launches its election manifesto, chiefly promoting family values.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cerrmndgnv9o |title=Scottish Family Party: manifesto promotes marriage |date=19 June 2024 |website=BBC News |access-date=19 June 2024}}
• 20 June –
• Scottish Parliament authorities have launched an investigation into the potential misuse of expenses to buy postage stamps by members of the SNP in order to send letters to voters.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg334q4z0npo |title=SNP investigated over 'misuse' of election postage stamps |date=20 June 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |first=David Wallace |last=Lockhart |access-date=20 June 2024}}
• The GMB announces a series of strikes for staff at Whyte & Mackay beginning on 24 June after staff at the whisky distillery rejected the company's latest pay offer.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz55zyyrdg2o |title=Whyte & Mackay whisky distillery staff to strike in pay dispute |date=20 June 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=20 June 2024}}
• Police remove a group of 26 men from an EasyJet flight at Glasgow Airport over disruptive behaviour.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cl77ry19jg5o |title=Police remove 26 men from Glasgow flight for disruptive behaviour |date=21 June 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=22 June 2024}}
• 23 June – Scotland exit Euro 2024 at the group stage after losing 1–0 to Hungary.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/article/2024/jun/23/scotland-hungary-euro-2024-match-report |title=Scotland heartbreak as Hungary's 100th-minute winner knocks them out of Euro 2024 |first=Ewan |last=Murray |date=23 June 2024 |access-date=23 June 2024 |work=The Guardian}}
• 24 June –
• Scottish wildcat kittens have been born in the Cairngorms National Park, in a "major milestone" for the conservation of the Critically Endangered species.{{Cite news |last1=Brooks |first1=Libby |date=24 June 2024 |title=Wildcat kittens born outside captivity in Cairngorms a 'major milestone' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/24/wildcat-kittens-birth-cairngorms-national-park |access-date=24 June 2024 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}
• The Scottish Conservatives launch their election manifesto, which includes plans to improve teachers' pay, cut the backlog of NHS waiting lists, and to beat the SNP.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5111we6k8xo |title=Scottish Conservative manifesto: Key policies analysed |date=24 June 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=24 June 2024}}
• 25 June – The body of missing grandmother Hazel Nairn is identified after she went missing in floods at the River Don, near Monymusk, in November 2022.{{Cite web |date=25 June 2024 |title=Hazel Nairn: Body identified after 18-month search for grandmother |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjjjwl4y9ypo |access-date=25 June 2024 |website=BBC News |language=en-GB}} Her remains were discovered near Kemnay on 7 May.{{Cite news |date=7 May 2024 |title=Hazel Nairn: Body found in search for woman swept into river |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-68970441 |access-date=25 June 2024 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}
• 26 June –
• It is announced that the results of the 2022 Scottish Census will contain a breakdown of the country's LGBTQ community for the first time.{{Cite web |first=Susie |last=Forrest |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgllkzjpl59o |title=Scotland's LGBT community counted for the first time |date=26 June 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=26 June 2024}} The date, published the next day, shows that almost 184,000 people in Scotland identify as LGBT.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgllkzjpl59o |title=Scotland's LGBT community counted for the first time |date=26 June 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=27 June 2024}}
• Officials confirm that the first batch of prisoners to be released early from prison in order to free up prison spaces have been freed.{{Cite web |first=Megan |last=Bonar |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6pp2r473ejo |title=Scottish prisoners released from jail early to ease overcrowding |date=26 June 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=26 June 2024}}
• 28 June –
• Edinburgh City Council establishes an emergency polling booth at City Chambers after a number of people across Scotland reported not receiving their postal votes. The emergency polling booth, which allows those who did not receive a postal vote to cast their vote in person, will operate until 30 June. Fife Council also announces an emergency polling booth at Fife House, Glenrothes that will be open on 29 June.{{Cite web |first=Paul |last=O'Hare |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8vdpvqe24jo |title=Councils open emergency voting booths after postal ballot delays |date=28 June 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=28 June 2024}}
• The final two second generation Glasgow Subway trains are taken out of service following the rollout of new third generation vehicles.{{Cite web |first=Jamie |last=Russell |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crgedre0qexo |title=Glasgow says goodbye to old subway trains |date=28 June 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=28 June 2024}}
• 29 June – East Lothian Council becomes the third local authority to establish an emergency facility for people who have not received their postal votes.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx02knj0l7xo |title=East Lothian Council latest to set up emergency postal vote centre |date=29 June 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=29 June 2024}}

• 1 July –
• Balmoral Castle opens to the public for tours for the first time, with daily tours running until 4 August.{{Cite web |first=Louise |last=Hosie |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cv2gd3revw9o |title=Balmoral Castle: the first look inside the royal rooms |date=29 June 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=30 June 2024}}
• Steve Carson is to step down as Head of Multi-Platform Commissioning at BBC Scotland in September, in order to take up a senior role at Irish broadcaster RTÉ.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cxe2l34p3j6o |title=Steve Carson to step down as head of BBC Scotland |date=1 July 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=1 July 2024}}
• 2 July – After rejecting a pay offer in May, waste and recycling staff belonging to Unite in half of Scotland's councils vote to strike.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cye09k856ndo |title=Half of Scotland's councils set for bin strikes |date=2 July 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=2 July 2024}}
• 3 July –
• Queen Camilla and Prince Edward are formally appointed to the Order of the Thistle at a ceremony in Edinburgh.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cv2g70gxz28o |title=Royals attend Thistle service as Queen joins order of chivalry |date=3 July 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=3 July 2024}}
• Moray Council is ordered to pay £346,000 in compensation to a foster family who were wrongly accused of "sexual impropriety" involving children they fostered during the 2010s.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9e90zn7dnxo |title=Foster family awarded £346,000 over false sex claims |date=3 July 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=3 July 2024}}
• 5 July –
• 2024 United Kingdom general election in Scotland:
• The SNP suffers heavy losses, going from 48 seats to just nine.{{Cite web |first1=Angus |last1=Cochrane |first2=Mary |last2=McCool |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw4yxzz43m4o |title=SNP loses 'damaging' 38 seats so far as final result delayed |date=5 July 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=5 July 2024}}
• With 56 of the 57 seats contested in Scotland declared, Labour win 37, the SNP win nine, while the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats each win five.{{Cite web |first=Philip |last=Slim |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpv3ydex017o |title=Scotland's 2024 General Election in numbers |date=5 July 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=8 July 2024}}
• Starmer ministry: The incoming Labour prime minister Keir Starmer appoints Ian Murray as Secretary of State for Scotland.{{Cite web|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/ian-murray-has-been-appointed-secretary-of-state-for-scotland |title=Ian Murray has been appointed Secretary of State for Scotland |website=GOV.UK |access-date=8 July 2024}}
• 6 June –
• 2024 United Kingdom general election in Scotland: Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire becomes the final constituency to declare its election results, and sees the number of Liberal Democrat MPs rise to 6 in Scotland after they defeat the SNP to win the seat.{{Cite web |first=Megan |last=Bonar |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqe6y0jvmrdo |title=Liberal Democrats win Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire, the final election result |date=6 July 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=8 July 2024}}
• The number of COVID-19 hospital cases in Scotland have surpassed the previous winter's peak, data shows, with 448 people in hospital with the disease in the week ending 30 June, an increase on the previous week, and above the winter peak of 388.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp68ln0ey81o |title=Covid hospital admissions in Scotland exceed last winter |date=5 July 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=8 July 2024}}
• A team looking into how the Cass Review could apply to Scotland's health services for children and young adults recommends the Scottish Government pause the use of puberty blockers until further research into them is conducted.{{Cite web |first=Jonathan |last=Geddes |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx02gkzz0z7o |title=Scottish government advised to halt puberty blockers |date=5 July 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=8 July 2024}}
• 7 July – Keir Starmer makes his first visit to Scotland as prime minister, for a meeting with First Minister John Swinney.{{Cite web |first=Barbara |last=Tasch |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd10ene4n5rt |title=Starmer heading to Scotland, as Jenrick says Tories failed to deliver |date=7 July 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=7 July 2024}}
• 9 July –
• In an open letter to SNP members following the party's defeat in Scotland, former deputy leader Jim Sillars has described John Swinney's leadership as "a busted flush" and Nicola Sturgeon as "Stalin's wee sister".{{Cite web |first=Lynsey |last=Bews |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cevwdy7llrlo |title=What does 'excoriating attack' on SNP mean for John Swinney? |date=9 July 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=9 July 2024}}
• Brian Boyd, the Provost of Angus, resigns after berating a female councillor to the point of tears at an open council meeting.{{Cite web |first=Graeme |last=Ogston |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c729eez0y9xo |title='Bully' provost quits after berating Angus councillor to tears |date=9 July 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=9 July 2024}}
• 11 July –
• The SNP confirms it will have to make the majority of its Westminster staff redundant after Parliament reduces its "Short Money" – the annual amount paid to opposition parties – by £1m.{{Cite web |first=Joe |last=Pike |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cl4y82em7e6o |title=SNP faces £1m Westminster funding cut |date=11 July 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=11 July 2024}}
• Data from Public Health Scotland indicates there were 49 COVID-related deaths in the week ending 1 July, with numbers having increased on previous weeks, while data obtained by BBC News indicates that as many as 260,000 people in at risk groups had not received a booster vaccine during the Spring 2024 programme when it ended on 30 June.{{Cite web |first=Aimee |last=Stanton |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c720rww63lko |title=Scottish Covid deaths rise as booster vaccine take-up falls |date=11 July 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=11 July 2024}}
• The Court of Criminal Appeal reduces the sentence of teenager Daniel Haig, sentenced to life imprisonment for the 2021 murder of Justin McLaughlin, himself a teenager. Haig will now be required to serve 13 rather than 16 years before becoming eligible to be considered for parole following an appeal against the original sentence handed out in August 2023.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0w4dv3595no |title=Teenager who murdered boy has jail term shortened |date=11 July 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=11 July 2024}}
• A pod of 77 whales dies after washing ashore on a beach in Orkney in what is believed to be the largest incident of its kind for several decades.{{Cite web |first1=Megan |last1=Bonar |first2=Rob |last2=Flett |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3g6xzrxy35o |title=77 whales dead after 'biggest mass stranding in decades' in Orkney |date=11 July 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=11 July 2024}}
• 12–16 July – 2024 World Orienteering Championships at Edinburgh{{Cite web |title=World Orienteering Championships 2024 Edinburgh |url=https://www.woc2024.org/ |access-date=27 November 2023 |website=WOC 2024}}
• 13 July – Staff at Five Sisters Zoo confirm the death of Yampil, a black Asiatic bear who was rehomed from an abandoned zoo in Ukraine in January.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c728zyw0x47o |title=Bear rescued from Ukraine dies in West Lothian zoo |date=13 July 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=14 July 2024}}
• 15 July – Figures show Edinburgh City Council issued over 6,000 low emission zone fines since the city's low emission zone was introduced.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp38j380d33o |title=Edinburgh issues over 6,000 Low Emission Zone fines in a month |date=15 July 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=15 July 2024}}
• 17 July – Members of Unison at 14 Scottish council areas, including Glasgow, Perth and Kinross and Dumfries and Galloway, vote to take industrial action after describing a pay offer from COSLA as "inadequate".{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqv5ql72p89o |title=Bin strikes to hit most councils after third union vote |date=17 July 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=17 July 2024}}
• 19 July – Unison rejects the latest offer from Cosla aimed at preventing strikes by refuse collectors, which was worth 3.2%.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0jq4n41382o |title=Union rejects council pay offer aimed at avoiding bin strikes |date=19 July 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=19 July 2024}}
• 21 July – Data from Public Health Scotland for the week ending 14 July indicates there were 1,130 cases of COVID-19 in Scotland, but the health body believes cases may have peaked.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cydv9jpe17po |title=Rise in summer cases of Covid 'may have peaked' in Scotland |date=21 July 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=21 July 2024}}
• 22 July –
• Following the death of 17-year-old Jonathan Beadle at Polmont Young Offenders Institution on Saturday 13 July, the Scottish Government announces that nobody under the age of 18 will be kept in prison in Scotland from the week beginning 2 September.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4ngxdqp051o |title=End date set for under-18s being sent to jail |date=22 July 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=22 July 2024}}
• Unite and the GMB follow Unison in rejecting the latest pay offer for refuse workers from Cosla.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn09e5pdg4vo |title=Unions reject deal to avert waste worker strikes |date=21 July 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=22 July 2024}}
• 23 July – The family of Allan Marshall, who died after being restrained by 17 prison officers at HMP Edinburgh in 2015, are to sue the Scottish Government under human rights legislation in what is believed to be the first case of its kind.{{Cite web |first=Lucy |last=Adams |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crgk1llpmmno |title=Family to sue prison service over death of inmate |date=23 July 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=23 July 2024}}
• 24 July – Researchers from the Scottish Association for Marine Science report evidence of dark oxygen being produced from metals on the seafloor. It was previously assumed that almost all the free oxygen (O2) on Earth was created through photosynthesis, which requires sunlight.{{Cite web |date=July 24, 2024 |title=Scientists may have discovered 'dark oxygen' being created without photosynthesis |website=NPR |url=https://www.npr.org/2024/07/24/nx-s1-5049587/scientists-dark-oxygen-without-photosynthesis }}
• 26 July –
• Three men are killed in a car crash on a road near Dunmore; a woman also involved in the incident is being treated in hospital.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd16e8dxexlo |title=Three men killed in single car crash in Falkirk |date=27 July 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=27 July 2024}}
• The Flow Country of Caithness and Sutherland is named as a World Heritage Site.{{Cite web |first=Justin |last=Rowlatt |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cv2gz1p2v12o |title=Scotland's Flow Country wins Unesco world heritage listing |date=26 July 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=26 July 2024}}
• 30 July – Unison confirms that refuse workers in 14 Scottish council areas will strike from 14 to 22 August.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cv2gyj8z04mo |title=Union confirms dates for bin strikes across Scotland |date=30 July 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=30 July 2024}}
• 31 July – The Unite and GMB unions announce eight days of strike action for refuse workers beginning on 14 August, which will include those working for Edinburgh City Council and occur during the Edinburgh Festival.{{Cite web |first=Angus |last=Cochrane |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cprqg944w02o |title=Bin collectors confirm Edinburgh Festival strikes |date=31 July 2024 |website=BBC News |access-date=31 July 2024}}

• 1 August – Stella Maris, the Rector of the University of St Andrews, is removed from the university's governing body over a letter she sent to students shortly after taking office in which she called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and referred to "genocidal attacks" made by the Israeli government.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cye0rj48kg5o |title=St Andrews rector removed from role after Gaza 'genocide' email |date=1 August 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=1 August 2024}} She will remain as Rector until October 2026, when her term ends.{{Cite web|url=https://www.thesaint.scot/post/breaking-news-rector-stella-maris-discharged-by-university-court |title=Rector Stella Maris Discharged by University Court |first=David |last=Buchan |date=1 August 2024 |website=The Saint |access-date=2 August 2024}}
• 4 August – A yellow weather warning is issued for heavy rain and strong winds in parts of Scotland, which is active until 9pm the following day.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4nggzy99qqo |title=Yellow weather warning issued for heavy rain in parts of Scotland |date=4 August 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=4 August 2024}}
• 6 August – Fiona Robertson, the chief executive of the Scottish Qualifications Authority, apologises after around 7,000 students who took their Higher examinations received blank emails instead of their results. The results were later sent by text message.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y884n5zrro |title=Thousands of anxious pupils got blank results email |date=6 August 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=6 August 2024}}
• 8 August – Cosla puts forward a new offer of a 3.6% increase for all grades of refuse workers in a bid to prevent strikes in 26 of Scotland's 32 council areas. The offer would represent a rise of £1,292 for the lowest paid, equivalent to a 5.63% increase.{{Cite web |first=Jamie |last=McIvor |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0qezqzzzpyo |title=New pay offer tabled in hope of avoiding bin strikes |date=8 August 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=10 August 2024}}
• 8–12 August – The 82nd World Science Fiction Convention takes place in Glasgow.{{cite news|url=https://www.worldcon.org/2022/09/04/glasgow-wins-2024-site-selection/ |title=Glasgow Wins 2024 Site Selection |access-date= 27 November 2023 |website=Worldcon |date=4 September 2022}}
• 9 August – 2024 United Kingdom riots: Police Scotland announces it is sending 120 of their officers to Belfast to help deal with ongoing riots in the city.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgxwv50nq3o |title=Police Scotland to send 120 officers to Belfast after disorder |date=9 August 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=10 August 2024}}
• 12 August – Unison, Unite and the GMB suspend planned strikes by refuse collectors following a new offer from Cosla.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly8nkj5449o |title=Unions call off bin worker strike after new pay offer |date=12 August 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=12 August 2024}}
• 13 August – Scotland's gender service for young people, based in Glasgow, announces it will stop accepting self-referrals.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c86l3zvw7qwo |title=Scottish gender service for young people to stop accepting self-referrals |date=13 August 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=13 August 2024}}
• 14 August –
• The annual Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland report shows a public spending deficit of £22.7bn for Scotland during 2023, an increase of £3.6bn from the previous year.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cze5d1gl62yo |title=Gers figures: Public spending deficit rises as oil revenues fall |date=14 August 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=14 August 2024}}
• The Scottish Government confirms it will follow the UK government by scrapping universal winter fuel payments for pensioners, with the benefit to be means tested.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz9wnyp42kwo |title=Scotland scraps universal winter fuel payments for pensioners |date=14 August 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=14 August 2024}}
• Staff working on Edinburgh's tram network vote to take strike action over a lack of toilet breaks.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0214ewwvpo |title=Edinburgh Trams staff back strike action over lack of toilet breaks |date=14 August 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=14 August 2024}}
• 15 August – A shipwreck, believed to be that of HMS Hawke, which was sunk by a torpedo during World War I, has been found off the Aberdeenshire coast.{{Cite web |first=Ben |last=Philip |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9qg4z1149eo |title=Lost wreck of WW1 ship HMS Hawke found in 'remarkable' condition |date=15 August 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=15 August 2024}}
• 16 August –
• 2024 Scottish Conservatives leadership election:
• Four of the six candidates running for the position of Scottish Conservative leader call for the race to be paused after claims about Douglas Ross's behaviour as leader.{{Cite web |last=Meighan |first=Craig |date=2024-08-16 |title=Calls to pause Tory leadership race amid 'disturbing claims' over Ross conduct |url=https://news.stv.tv/politics/scottish-tory-leadership-contest-thrown-into-turmoil-as-disturbing-claims-made-against-douglas-ross |access-date=2024-08-16 |website=STV News |language=en-GB}}{{Cite web |last=Steerpike |date=2024-08-16 |title=Scottish Tory leadership candidates call for race to halt |url=https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/scottish-tory-leadership-candidates-call-for-race-to-halt/ |access-date=2024-08-16 |website=The Spectator |language=en-GB}} The claims concern a report that in July 2023 Ross had asked for the leader of Moray council, Kathleen Robertson, to stand down as the prospective parliamentary candidate for Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey.{{Cite web |date=2024-08-16 |title=Scottish Tory leadership race in chaos as candidates demand answers over Ross conduct |url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/24523094.scottish-tory-leadership-candidates-call-contest-paused/?ref=rss |access-date=2024-08-16 |website=The Herald |language=en}}
• Meghan Gallacher resigns as the party's deputy leader, citing a "potential risk to the reputation of our party and the leadership contest" after reports that Ross had previously suggested Russell Findlay should succeed him.{{Cite web |date=2024-08-16 |title=Scottish Tory leadership candidates question fairness of vote |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crlrde3rx08o |access-date=2024-08-16 |website=BBC News |language=en-GB}}
• Developers working on HM Prison Highland in Inverness have uncovered a prehistoric settlement believed to be around 2,000 years old.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gd49ygn9qo |title=Prehistoric houses found at site of new Inverness prison |date=16 August 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=16 August 2024}}
• 17 August – SNP MSP John Mason is stripped of the party whip after a Twitter post in which he said that Israel's actions in Gaza did not amount to "genocide", something a party spokesperson describes as "completely unacceptable".{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg791g2z8zyo |title=John Mason stripped of SNP party whip over 'unacceptable' Gaza posts |date=17 August 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=17 August 2024}}
• 19 August –
• A rocket being developed by Rocket Factory Augsburg, a German company hoping to launch the UK's first space flight, explodes during a launch test at the Shetland Space Centre.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy54wqzz0kvo |title=Rocket engine explodes during test at Shetland spaceport |date=19 August 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=19 August 2024}}
• The Scottish Government announces it will hold no further talks with Israeli ambassadors until there is "real progress" in resolving the Gaza conflict.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5ydg5lqgwxo |title=Scottish government suspends meetings with Israel |date=19 August 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=19 August 2024}}
• Christina McKelvie, the Scottish Government's Minister for Drugs and Alcohol Policy, announces she will step back from the role while receiving treatment for secondary breast cancer. Her duties will be assumed by fellow ministers Neil Gray and Jenni Minto.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c79wqle1xqno |title=Christina McKelvie steps back from government during cancer treatment |date=19 August 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=19 August 2024}}
• 20 August –
• Data released by National Records of Scotland shows a 12% increase in the number of drug related deaths in Scotland during 2023, with 1,172 deaths that year, an increase of 121 from 2022.{{Cite web |first1=Jonathan |last1=Geddes |first2=James |last2=Cook |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y5ll3ler7o |title=Scotland's drug deaths still worst in Europe after 12% rise |date=20 August 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=20 August 2024}}
• Transport Scotland announces that its pilot scheme of subsidising peak-time ScotRail fairs will end in September, having not achieved the goal of encouraging more people to travel by train rather than by road.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvge98qj0e5o |title=Peak-time ScotRail fare scheme scrapped over passenger numbers |date=20 August 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=20 August 2024}}
• 21 August – Aberdeen City Council announces that several hundred properties in Aberdeen affected by Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete are to be demolished and rebuilt at a cost of £150m.{{Cite web |first1=Ken |last1=Banks |first2=Phil |last2=McDonald |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgm7wmvky4ro |title=Hundreds of Aberdeen RAAC homes to be demolished and rebuilt |date=21 August 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=21 August 2024}}
• 22 August –
• Edinburgh City Council votes to introduce a tourist tax that it hopes will raise around £50m a year.{{Cite web |first=James |last=Delaney |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7v5l29q2dvo |title=Edinburgh Council backs introduction of new 'tourist tax' |date=22 August 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=22 August 2024}}
• Highland Council announces that Inverness's Hogmanay celebration will not take place in 2024–25 due to capacity and rising costs.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm23v20pye9o |title=Inverness' 2024 Red Hot Highland Fling Hogmanay party cancelled |date=22 August 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=22 August 2024}}
• 23 August – Edinburgh City Council votes to introduce a temporary fireworks ban around Bonfire Night in the city's Niddrie, Balerno, Seafield and Calton Hill districts, becoming the first Scottish council to implement such a ban.{{Cite web |first=Angie |last=Brown |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c623l0qgepvo |title=Edinburgh first Scottish council to pass fireworks ban |date=23 August 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=25 August 2024}}
• 25 August – BBC Scotland News reports that Scotland's local authorities are to divert money used to restore nature projects to pay for wage increases.{{Cite web |first=Kevin |last=Keane |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy7p2y1p1eo |title=Money to restore nature to be used to fund wage settlements |date=25 August 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=25 August 2024}}
• 26 August –
• ASLEF suspends planned strike action for ScotRail drivers following a new pay offer, and will ballot its members on the offer.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czjy04dwlkeo |title=Train driver strikes on hold after new ScotRail pay offer |date=26 August 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=26 August 2024}}
• The Scottish Government confirms it will suspend the Connecting Scotland programme which provides iPads and laptops to people who are "digitally excluded" in order to pay for council pay rises.{{Cite web |first=Lynsey |last=Bews |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqxjqggnewro |title=Free iPad scheme suspended to fund Scottish council pay deals |date=26 August 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=26 August 2024}}
• 28 August – Justice Secretary Angela Constance confirms that around 470 prisoners have been released under emergency provisions to release prisoners early from their sentences.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gq4ege492o |title=Scottish early prison release scheme involved 477 inmates |date=28 August 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=28 August 2024}}
• 30 August –
• Cheyenne Naeb, an American philosophy student at the University of Dundee, who pushed a female member of railway staff in front of a stationary train at Glasgow Queen Street railway station in February 2023 after missing his train, is sentenced to 20 months in prison at Glasgow Sheriff Court.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0493y7kpkno |title=American student who pushed woman onto rail track jailed |date=30 August 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=30 August 2024}}
• During a closed-door session at the SNP Party Conference, leader John Swinney tells delegates the party's losses at the election occurred because it spent too much time focusing on the "process of independence". The comments are recorded and leaked to The Times, which publishes them the following day.{{Cite web |first1=Andrew |last1=Kerr |first2=Claire |last2=Diamond |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c89w5y4w3xxo |title=SNP spent too long focused on independence process – Swinney |date=31 August 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=31 August 2024}}

• 1 September – John Swinney gives his keynote speech to the SNP Annual Conference, saying that he will put the "people's priorities" at the heard of the Scottish Government, and that he will work to convince voters that Scottish independence is the "route" to delivering a fairer and stronger country.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj9l4wj7vz1o |title=SNP will deliver 'people's priorities', John Swinney tells conference |date=1 September 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=1 September 2024}}
• 2 September – The Scottish Government confirms that all young offenders under the age of 18 have been removed from Scotland's young offenders' institutions and transferred to more child-friendly accommodation.{{Cite web |first1=Catriona |last1=Renton |first2=Megan |last2=Bonar |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c78ljg04818o |title=All children removed from young offenders institutions in Scotland |date=2 September 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=2 September 2024}}
• 3 September –
• In a statement to the Scottish Parliament, Finance Secretary Shona Robison outlines £500m of spending cuts. She argues the cuts are needed because of an additional £800m in financial costs brought about by public sector pay deals, austerity from Westminster, inflation, the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.{{Cite web |first=Angus |last=Cochrane |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2y1e4jpz3o |title=Scottish government confirms £500m in cuts ahead of budget |date=3 September 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=3 September 2024}}
• BBC News reports that the headquarters of GB Energy, the new government-backed energy company, will be in Aberdeen.{{Cite web |first1=James |last1=Delaney |first2=David |last2=Porter |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7v5y6gnjeyo |title=GB Energy to be headquartered in Aberdeen |date=3 September 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=3 September 2024}}
• Members of the Unison trade union working for councils in Scotland reject an annual pay increase offer worth 3.6%, equivalent to at least £1,292.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn9lp9zrne4o |title=Unison members reject latest council pay offer |date=3 September 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=3 September 2024}}
• 4 September – The Scottish Government abandons an unfulfilled commitment to expand free school meals to all primary school pupils.{{Cite web |first1=Angus |last1=Cochrane |first2=James |last2=Cook |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg54zv32gyo |title=Scottish ministers ditch universal free school meal pledge |date=4 September 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=4 September 2024}}
• 5 September – Scottish rugby player Scott Hastings confirms his wife, Jenny Hastings, has been reported missing after disappearing at a location used for wild swimming in the Firth of Forth on 3 September.{{Cite web |first1=Katy |last1=Scott |first2=Craig |last2=Williams |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ceq5ej0dex3o |title=Hastings' family 'heartbroken' as wife Jenny confirmed missing |date=5 September 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=5 September 2024}}
• 6 September –
• The Daily Record reports that Police Scotland are to begin sending out a "custody user experience survey" via text message to anyone who spends a night in a police cell in Scotland.{{Cite web |first=Catherine |last=Lyst |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clynxe7g3rno |title=Prisoners to be asked to rate experience in police cells |date=6 September 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=6 September 2024}}
• Scottish climber Lorraine McCall becomes the first woman to climb all 231 Grahams in Scotland during a single journey.{{Cite web |first=Steven |last=McKenzie |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c15g12jed2jo |title=Woman is first to climb all of Scotland's Grahams in one trip |date=6 September 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=6 September 2024}}
• 7 September –
• Police searching for Jenny Hastings, missing since 3 September, find a body at Hound Point in South Queensferry.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8xlk1wppkxo |title=Jenny Hastings: Body found in search for wife of rugby star |date=7 September 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=7 September 2024}}
• Several thousand anti-racism protestors, and a smaller number of anti-immigration protestors, march through Glasgow, which is the scene of violent clashes between the two groups.{{Cite web |first1=David |last1=Cowan |first2=James |last2=Cheyne |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20r7wzke97o |title=Scuffles as thousands attend rival demonstrations in Glasgow |date=7 September 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=7 September 2024}}
• 9 September –
• It is reported that a woman received a six-figure out-of-court settlement from Lanarkshire Council in 2023 after her adoption of a two-year-old child broke down when she was not made aware the boy had an underlying medical condition.{{Cite web |first=Suzanne |last=Allan |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c623we048yzo |title=Woman wins payout after adoption broke down |date=9 September 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=9 September 2024}}
• Data from the Scottish Prison Service shows that 188 prisoners, more than a third of the 477 released early over the summer as an emergency measure to free up prison spaces, were convicted of non-sexual violent crimes.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd0594gx71xo |title=More than a third of early prison releases were violent offenders |date=9 September 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=9 September 2024}}
• 10 September – The body of a female fox is discovered near Balfour Hospital in Kirkwall, Orkney, even though Orkney has no known fox population.{{Cite web |first=Morven |last=Mckinnon |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgq2x0290zzo |title=Dead fox found in Orkney which has no known fox population |date=10 September 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=10 September 2024}}
• 11 September –
• Figures released by the Scottish Prison Service indicate that the prison population is now higher than when its emergency release scheme began, with 8,241 people in prison in Scotland compared to 8,232 before the scheme began.{{Cite web |first=Phil |last=Sim |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c80e8n8pgv4o |title=Scotland's prison population higher after early release scheme |date=11 September 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=11 September 2024}}
• The Scottish Government loses a non-binding vote calling for the rollout of free school meals to all primary school pupils, with MSPs voting 64–2 for the motion.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg5vxe3v5eo |title=Scottish government defeated in free school meals vote |date=10 September 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=11 September 2024}}
• 13 September – Former nurse Adele Rennie is sentenced to two years and four months in prison and placed on the sex offenders' register for ten years after pleading guilty to stalking a woman online, while posing as a man, after the dating app Tinder matched them.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyjy904595o |title=Ex-nurse who posed as man to stalk Tinder match jailed |date=13 September 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=13 September 2024}}
• 15 September – The A83 road in Argyll is reopened with a slight diversion after heavy rain caused a 500 tonne landslide.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g00xreedno |title=Rest and Be Thankful road closed after 500 tonne landslide |date=15 September 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=15 September 2024}}
• 17 September – Glasgow is formally selected as the host city of the Commonwealth Games in 2026.{{Cite web |first1=Chris |last1=McLaughlin |first2=Megan |last2=Bonar |date=2024-09-17 |title=Scotland agrees to host Commonwealth Games in 2026 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce8ddeeklxko |access-date=2024-09-17 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |language=en-GB}}
• 18 September – Scotland experiences its warmest September day since 2019, with temperatures reaching 25 °C.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn031jjygjko |title=Scottish temperatures top 25C on warmest September day |date=18 September 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=18 September 2024}}
• 19 September –
• The Scottish Government temporarily pauses a ban on wood burning stoves in new properties and property conversions following a review of the legislation.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c79n1vdv553o |title=Ministers pause ban on wood burning stoves |date=19 September 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=19 September 2024}}
• Greenock Morton F.C. dismisses player Jay Emmanuel-Thomas after he appeared in court accused of attempting to orchestrate the smuggling of drugs into the UK.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce81e2zq0jjo |title=Footballer Jay Emmanuel-Thomas sacked after £600,000 cannabis smuggling charge |date=19 September 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=19 September 2024}}
• 20 September – A woman juror who used the Right Move app to research the floorplan of a house similar to one that was the scene of a rape during a trial is fined for contempt of court.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly34l9285yo |title=Juror fined for looking up floorplan during rape trial |date=20 September 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=20 September 2024}}
• 24 September –
• Official figures show the number of households living in temporary accommodation has reached a record high, with 16,300 households in the system as of March 2024, the highest since records began in 2002.{{Cite web |first=Chris |last=Clements |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0ejvewjg5o |title=Homeless people living in temporary accommodation in Scotland hits record high |date=24 September 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=24 September 2024}}
• Legislation comes into force preventing anti-abortion protests within 200 m (656 ft) of clinics where the procedure is carried out.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c98y1ryd6d3o |title=Abortion protests near clinics banned as buffer zones law goes live |date=24 September 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=24 September 2024}}
• 25 September –
• ScotRail train drivers belonging to ASLEF have voted to accept a 4.5% pay rise backdated to April, ending their dispute.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1wndrg58gyo |title=ScotRail drivers accept deal to end long-running pay dispute |date=25 September 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=25 September 2024}}
• Scottish comedian Janey Godley reveals she is receiving end-of-life care following the spread of her cancer.{{Cite web |first=Calumm |last=Watson |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd7xv79dp0jo |title=Comedian Janey Godley receiving end-of-life care |date=25 September 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=25 September 2024}}
• 27 September –
• 2024 Scottish Conservatives leadership election: Russell Findlay is elected as the new leader of the Scottish Conservatives, succeeding Douglas Ross.{{Cite web |first=Craig |last=Williams |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg4qv64qk92o |title=Russell Findlay elected as new Scottish Conservative leader |date=27 September 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=27 September 2024}}
• The scheme that scrapped peak time train fares in Scotland ends after almost a year.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9vpgzv4x34o |title=Final day of cheaper rail fare scheme after almost a year |date=27 September 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=27 September 2024}}
• 28 September –
• Charles III marks the 25th anniversary of the establishment of the Scottish Parliament at an event in Edinburgh.{{Cite web |first=Jonathan |last=Geddes |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce81zlj4y2go |title=King speaks at Holyrood for Scottish Parliament's 25th anniversary |date=28 September 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=28 September 2024}}
• Rachael Hamilton is appointed deputy leader of the Scottish Conservatives.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx20jk01krpo |title=Rachael Hamilton appointed Scottish Tory deputy leader |date=28 September 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=28 September 2024}}
• 30 September – The minimum unit price of alcohol increases by 30% from 50p per unit to 65p per unit.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg2d2kdgzeo |title=Minimum price of alcohol in Scotland rises by 30% |date=30 September 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=30 September 2024}}

• 1 October – HM Coastguard's Search and Rescue unit suspends landings at most of Scotland's hospital helipads amod safety concerns.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0jwq76p4lpo |title=Coastguard suspends landings at 23 Scottish hospital sites |date=1 October 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=1 October 2024}}
• 2 October –
• Scottish gangland boss Jamie "Iceman" Stevenson is sentenced to 20 years in prison after admitting to orchestrating a plot to smuggle £100m worth of cocaine from South America in boxes of bananas.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9wkd187505o |title=Jamie Stevenson jailed for £100m plot to smuggle cocaine in banana boxes |date=2 October 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=2 October 2024}}
• Data from the Scottish Government has indicated that 57 of the 477 prisoners released early to ease prison overcrowding were back in custody before the date of their original release, including 12 who were back in prison within ten days.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy805609608o |title=More than one in 10 early release prisoners back in jail |date=2 October 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=2 October 2024}}
• 4 October – Data from Police Scotland indicates that instances of recorded hate crime have increased by 63% since the Hate Crime and Public Order Act became law in April.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c70w98pd128o |title=Hate crimes recorded in Scotland soar by 63% |date=4 October 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=4 October 2024}}
• 5 October – Four people are treated in hospital after being struck by a taxi in central Glasgow.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8el9ny195lo |title=Four people in hospital after taxi hits pedestrians in Glasgow |date=5 October 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=6 October 2024}}
• 6 October – A man is killed and three other people taken to hospital following an explosion at a block of flats in Alloa, Clackmannanshire.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr753n3y141o |title=Days of disruption expected after fatal flat explosion |date=7 October 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=7 October 2024}}
• 8 October – MSPs back a nonbinding SNP motion by 99 votes to 14 calling on the UK government to reconsider their policy on winter fuel payments.{{Cite web |first=Angus |last=Cochrane |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn8y7ve1k02o |title=Rebel Labour MSPs back SNP in winter fuel payment vote |date=8 October 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=8 October 2024}}
• 9 October –
• Transport Secretary Fiona Hyslop announces that the public will be consulted on reducing speed limits in Scotland following an increase in the number of deaths on the roads.{{Cite web |first=Angus |last=Cochrane |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwye8yn7z2lo |title=Ministers to ask public about reducing speed limits on roads |date=9 October 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=9 October 2024}}
• The Crown Office announces it has dropped charges of human trafficking against businesswoman Ann Gloag.{{Cite web |first=Jonathan |last=Geddes |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdd4qy34m2yo |title=Human trafficking charges against Stagecoach tycoon are dropped |date=9 October 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=9 October 2024}}
• 10 October – The Scottish Government shelves plans for the early release of long term prisoners following concerns raised by victims groups, but will reduce the automatic early release for short term prisoners from the point of 50% completion of their sentence to 40%.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9dy4ng30w9o |title=Ministers drop plan for early release of long-term prisoners |date=10 October 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=10 October 2024}}
• 11 October – It is reported that Education Secretary Jenny Gilruth has withheld £145.5m in funding to all councils because of a disagreement over cuts to the number of teachers.{{Cite web |first=Lucy |last=Adams |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0jw6yp0434o |title=Gilruth keeps £145m from councils over teacher numbers row |date=10 October 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=11 October 2024}}
• 12 October – Alex Salmond, former first minister of Scotland, dies aged 69 in North Macedonia.{{cite news |date=12 October 2024 |title=Former first minister of Scotland Alex Salmond dies aged 69 |url=https://news.stv.tv/scotland/former-first-minister-of-scotland-alex-salmond-dies-aged-69 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20241012164822/https://news.stv.tv/scotland/former-first-minister-of-scotland-alex-salmond-dies-aged-69 |archive-date=12 October 2024 |url-status=live |first1=Gianni |last1=Marini |first2=Kevin |last2=Scott |first3=Peter |last3=Cassidy |access-date=12 October 2024 |work=STV News}}
• 13 October –
• Flags are lowered to half-mast at the Scottish Parliament following the death of former First Minister Alex Salmond the previous day.{{Cite web|url=https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/flags-at-half-mast-and-floral-tributes-at-scottish-parliament-following-alex-salmonds-death-4821795 |title=Flags at half mast and floral tributes at Scottish Parliament following Alex Salmond's death |date=13 October 2024 |publisher=The Scotsman |access-date=13 October 2024}}
• MSP John Mason is expelled from the SNP after posting on Twitter that there was "no genocide" in Gaza.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgn8yengm0o |title=John Mason expelled from SNP over 'unacceptable' Gaza posts |date=13 October 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=13 October 2024}}
• 14 October –
• The Scottish Government confirms that ferry fares in Scotland will increase by 10% from 1 January 2025.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly40y40pq9o |title=Ferry fares in Scotland to increase by 10% next year |date=14 October 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=14 October 2024}}
• Glasgow City Council unveils plans to make improvements to the city centre, with the changes scheduled to begin in 2025.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjd5pxkde59o |title=Timetable for transformation of Glasgow city centre unveiled |date=14 October 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=14 October 2024}}
• 16 October – Following trial and conviction at the High Court in Edinburgh, Jamie Boulton is sentenced to life imprisonment with at least 18 years in custody for the stabbing murder of Gary O'Neill at a flat in Leith in June 2023.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn7y4mmrm06o |title=Violent offender jailed for 18 years for Edinburgh knife murder |date=16 October 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=16 October 2024}}
• 17 October – BBC One programme Crimewatch Live makes a fresh appeal for information leading to the discovery of the remains of Suzanne Pilley, who was murdered by her ex-partner in 2010.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gl7xnkg02o |title=Fresh Crimewatch appeal in bid to find Suzanne Pilley's body |date=17 October 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=17 October 2024}}
• 18 October –
• The body of former first minister Alex Salmond is flown from North Macedonia to Scotland in a private jet paid for by businessman Tom Hunter.{{Cite web|url=https://apnews.com/article/alex-salmond-body-repatriated-scotland-c0e90b9514424b0825474f650aa1918e |title=Body of Scottish independence champion Alex Salmond flown home from North Macedonia |date=18 October 2024 |website=AP News |access-date=18 October 2024}}
• Former Daily Record editor Murray Foote announces he is standing down as chief executive of the SNP after 14 months in the post.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9dyzee3j1yo |title=SNP chief executive Murray Foote to stand down |date=18 October 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=18 October 2024}}
• 19 October – The SNP appoints Carol Beattie, a former chief executive of Stirling Council, as interim chief executive following the resignation of Murray Foote.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd9833wnl33o |title=SNP appoints Carol Beattie as interim chief executive |date=19 October 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=19 October 2024}}
• 20 October – An amber weather alert is in place for western Scotland and the north and west of Northern Ireland as Storm Ashley arrives in the UK; yellow alerts are issued for other parts of Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Welsh coast.{{Cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg3dn4053jo |title=Storm Ashley: Amber warning as 'weather bomb' hits Scotland |date=18 October 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=20 October 2024}}
• 21 October – Non-teaching staff at primary schools in John Swinney's Perth and Kinross constituency go on strike over pay and conditions, threatening a walkout that could last two weeks.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g4n09qm51o |title=Perth primary schools close as strikes target Swinney constituency |date=21 October 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=21 October 2024}}
• 23 October –
• Duncan Ferguson is dismissed as manager of Inverness Caledonian Thistle after the club goes into administration.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0mzn1wk1pgo |title=Duncan Ferguson sacked as Inverness Caledonian Thistle manager |date=23 October 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=23 October 2024}}
• Jack Crawley is sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum of 37 years for the October 2023 murder of army veteran Paul Taylor with a hammer in.{{Cite web |first=Mark |last=Denten |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0d212xzyvo |title=Paul Taylor hammer attack murder: Jack Crawley jailed for life |date=23 October 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=23 October 2024}}
• 25 October – Dylan Brister and Cameron Allan are sentenced to minimum prison terms of 23 and 19 years respectively for the drugging, rape and murder of Calum Simpson, which occurred in November 2021.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cje03ld7kleo |title=Men who raped and murdered young father in Methil jailed for life |date=25 October 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=25 October 2024}}
• 29 October – The funeral of Alex Salmond is held at the parish church in Strichen, Aberdeenshire.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdx9x4l343qo |title=Alex Salmond's funeral to be held on Tuesday |date=22 October 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=22 October 2024}}{{Cite web |first=Jenness |last=Mitchell |url=https://news.sky.com/story/alex-salmond-private-funeral-of-former-first-minister-to-take-place-today-13243475 |title=Alex Salmond: Private funeral of former first minister to take place today |website=Sky News |date=29 October 2024 |accessdate=1 November 2024}}

• 1 November – The Commissioner for Ethical Standards in Public Life in Scotland finds SNP councillor Kairin van Sweeden in breach of the code of conduct for calling a political opponent a "New Scot" during a meeting of Aberdeen City Council in October 2023.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce8yv3mn5zqo |title=Aberdeen councillor's 'New Scot' comment breached code of conduct |date=1 November 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=1 November 2024}}
• 2 November – A 74-year-old man receives fatal injuries after being struck by a bus in Edinburgh's Cowgate. The following day, Police Scotland ask members of the public to stop sharing graphic images of the incident on social media.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj3mxvvr7vro |title=Social media restraint appeal as man killed by bus in Edinburgh's Cowgate |date=3 November 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=3 November 2024}}
• 3 November – Police Scotland say they have received a fresh allegation concerning a non-recent sexual assault against former First Minister Alex Salmond.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly021vg9ego |title=Police receive new sex assault complaint against Alex Salmond |date=3 November 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=3 November 2024}}
• 5 November –
• Senior consultants in Scotland have voted to accept a 10.5% pay rise that will see them earn between £10,500 and £13,500 extra each year, and which will be backdated to 1 April 2024.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3vl5gyg6qro |title=NHS consultants in Scotland accept 10.5% pay rise |date=5 November 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=5 November 2024}}
• A waste management company is to sue the Scottish Government for £170m over the failed bottle return scheme.{{Cite web |first=Angus |last=Cochrane |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yrgzvgld5o |title=Why is the SNP government facing £170m court case over recycling scheme? |date=5 November 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=5 November 2024}}
• Bonfire Night disturbance breaks out in parts of Edinburgh, with missiles such as bricks, bottles and fireworks thrown at police.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy1v577lneo |title=Police to use stop and search powers to tackle Bonfire Night disorder in Edinburgh |date=5 November 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=5 November 2024}}
• 6 November – Police Scotland say they have made 19 arrests following disturbances over Halloween and Bonfire Night.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gp84qdzpjo |title=Police make 19 arrests after Bonfire Night disorder |date=6 November 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=6 November 2024}}
• 8 November –
• The death certificate of Susan McGowan, a 58-year-old nurse from North Lanarkshire who died in September, has linked her death with the use of the weight loss drug tirzepatide (known under the brand name Mounjaro), which was recently approved for use on the NHS; it is reported to be the first UK death linked to the drug's use.{{Cite web |first1=Catriona |last1=MacPhee |first2=James |last2=Cheyne |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz6jg6nw2zeo |title=Nurse's death linked to weight-loss drug Mounjaro approved on NHS |date=8 November 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=8 November 2024}}
• The Scottish Government confirms it is ditching plans to ban the installation of wood burning stoves in newbuild properties and conversions.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqxwg3pjxleo |title=Government ditches ban on wood-burning stoves in newbuild homes |date=8 November 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=8 November 2024}}
• 9 November – Internet cables have been laid in water pipes, bringing fibre optic broadband to the Orkney island of Papa Westray in what is reported to be the first example of such a system being installed in the UK.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clygd9nznj9o |title=Orkney island gets broadband via water pipes in UK first |date=9 November 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=9 November 2024}}
• 12 November –
• A judicial review begins into the UK Government's consent to extract resources from the Rosebank oil and gas field.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czd5rvgp830o |title=Legal challenge to Rosebank oil and Jackdaw gas fields begins |date=11 November 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=12 November 2024}}
• Stephen Flynn, the SNP's leader at Westminster, announces his intention to stand at the 2026 Scottish Parliament election.{{Cite web |first=Angus |last=Cochrane |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czxvne36313o |title=Stephen Flynn aims to stand for SNP at Holyrood election |date=12 November 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=12 November 2024}}
• 13 November –
• The UK government tells the judicial review into the approval of the Rosebank Oil and Gas Field that the approval was given unlawfully.{{Cite web |first=James |last=Cook |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly2dxqd1pyo |title=Government admits new Rosebank oil field approved unlawfully |date=13 November 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=13 November 2024}}
• Edinburgh City Council approves plans to move several hundred homeless people out of unlicensed accommodation by the end of the month.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg0qxxn8e7o |title=Homeless to be moved out of illegal shared houses |date=13 November 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=13 November 2024}}
• 14 November –
• The Scottish Government further delays its plans to establish a National Care Service, but remains committed to the proposal.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg0k136mdjo |title=National Care Service plan 'delayed not scrapped' |date=14 November 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=14 November 2024}}
• Neil Gray, Scotland's Health and Social Care Secretary, apologises to the Scottish Parliament for not attending a "wider range" of football matches after he used a chauffeur driven vehicle to attend four games at Aberdeen F.C., something he says gave the impression he was acting "more as a fan and less as a minister".{{Cite web |first=Angus |last=Cochrane |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgwpdvpg6yo |title=Neil Gray 'sorry' after chauffeur trips to football |date=14 November 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=14 November 2024}}
• 15 November – Stephen McCabe resigns as leader of Inverclyde Council after appearing in court charged with assault and threatening behaviour.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr4lk7d2gweo |title=Inverclyde Council leader quits after assault allegations |date=15 November 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=16 November 2024}}
• 16 November –
• The SNP's National Executive Committee proposes cutting the number of staff at its headquarters from 26 to 16.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2ngw81vrlo |title=SNP plans to cut staff at party headquarters |date=16 November 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=16 November 2024}}
• Ruth Maguire, MSP for Cunninghame South, announces she will not seek re-election at the 2026 Scottish Parliament election because she is to undergo treatment for cancer.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gp50jrvnwo |title=SNP MSP Ruth Maguire to stand down in 2026 after cancer diagnosis |date=16 November 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=16 November 2024}}
• 17 November – At 12pm, Tesco opens its branch in Stornaway, Isle of Lewis for the first time on a Sunday, the Western Isles being the only place in the UK where the majority of shops remain closed on a Sunday.{{Cite web |first1=Steven |last1=McKenzie |first2=Catriona |last2=Renton |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czxrylv2xj1o |title=Tesco row shows Sundays are still sacred on Hebridean islands |date=17 November 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=17 November 2024}}
• 19 November –
• Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar says his party will expand the eligibility for winter fuel payments in Scotland if they win the 2026 Scottish Parliament election.{{Cite web |first=Angus |last=Cochrane |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c70452jj21ro |title=Sarwar vows to give winter fuel payments to more Scots pensioners |date=19 November 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=19 November 2024}}
• Eric Trump, the son of Donald Trump, confirms the US President-elect will visit Scotland in 2025 to open a new golf course.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdj3pdl2wveo |title=Donald Trump to visit Scotland next year, son Eric Trump says |date=19 November 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=19 November 2024}}
• The Scottish Government is reported to be preparing to reduce the minimum term served by prisoners given short sentences, which could lead to the early release of between 260 and 390 prisoners in February 2025.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce8d48xm25lo |title=New plan for early release of short-term prisoners in Scotland |date=19 November 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=19 November 2024}}
• 20 November – The Children and Young People's Commissioner Scotland launches an investigation into Police Scotland's use of force against children.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn5wp1yx92po |title=Watchdog to probe Police Scotland over use of force on children |date=20 November 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=20 November 2024}}
• 21 November –
• Stephen Flynn, the SNP's leader at Westminster, says he will not seek a dual mandate by standing for the Scottish Parliament while he remains an MP.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3e8y552d3zo |title=Stephen Flynn will not seek dual mandate to become MSP |date=21 November 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=21 November 2024}}
• Traditional Scottish singer Iona Fyfe is named as the new Rector of the University of Aberdeen, succeeding Martina Chukwuma–Ezike, and will take up the post on 1 January 2025.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1lg9865vz8o |title=Scottish singer Iona Fyfe named University of Aberdeen rector |date=21 November 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=21 November 2024}}
• 22 November – With Storm Bert set to arrive in Scotland the following day, bringing snow and ice, Police Scotland urges motorists not to travel.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvged5y8qn2o |title=Storm Bert: Police warn against road travel on Saturday |date=21 November 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=22 November 2024}}
• 23 November – Police Scotland arrest seven people in connection with Bonfire Night disturbances in the Pollokshields area of Glasgow.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gxjlvgvgyo |title=Seven people arrested over Bonfire Night disorder |date=23 November 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=23 November 2024}}
• 24 November –
• Alex Cole-Hamilton, the leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats says his party will vote down the Scottish Government's upcoming budget if it contains even a "penny" promoting Scottish independence.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg4vrpz7dvo |title=ScottishLib Dems would vote down Budget that contains independence spending |date=24 November 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=24 November 2024}}
• Police charge a senior British Army officer over an incident during which he took decommissioned hand grenades through security at Edinburgh Airport on 16 October.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c93753q5qkyo |title=British Army officer charged after dummy grenade found at airport |date=24 November 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=24 November 2024}}
• 25 November – 50 non-essential workers are evacuated from the Valaris 120 oil rig 150 miles off the coast of Aberdeen following a crash with a vessel.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg579njg373o |title=North Sea rig crew evacuated in supply boat crash |date=25 November 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=25 November 2024}}
• 26 November – Aberdeen Football Club withdraws an application for a temporary alcohol licence.{{Cite web |first=Ken |last=Banks |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czr74ex32glo |title=Aberdeen FC withdraws fan zone alcohol scheme |date=26 November 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=26 November 2024}}
• 27 November – The Scottish Government launches a public consultation on potential sped limit changes that could see the speed limit reduced from 60 mph to 50 mph for cars on single carriageways, but increased from 40 mph to 50 mph for HGV vehicles. HGVs could also have speed limits on dual carriageways increased to 60 mph.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpqdgy8rq0eo |title=Car speed limits could be cut but raised for HGVs in Scotland |date=27 November 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=27 November 2024}}
• 28 November –
• The Scottish Government announces that all pensioner households will receive a Winter Fuel Payment from Winter 2025–26, with those on Pension Credit receiving £200 or £300 dependent on age and the rest receiving £100.{{Cite web |first1=Angus |last1=Cochrane |first2=James |last2=Cook |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj6kl7ywe07o |title=All Scottish pensioners to get winter fuel payment |date=28 November 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=28 November 2024}}
• The Scottish Government abandons plans to upgrade the A96 between Aberdeen and Inverness to make it a full dual carriageway by 2030.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgdvx3440lo |title=Commitment to fully dual A96 by 2030 abandoned |date=28 November 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=30 November 2024}}
• The NHS Grampian health board announcing it is to divert ambulance patients to hospitals outside its area because of "critical" pressure on its largest hospital.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gpnmz1n4xo |title=Ambulance patients diverted as NHS Grampian declares 'critical incident' |date=28 November 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=30 November 2024}}
• 29 November –
• Finlay MacDonald, who carried out a series of shootings on the Isle of Skye and the Scottish mainland, which included the fatal shooting of his brother-in-law, is sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 28 years.{{Cite web |first=Steven |last=McKenzie |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy9jd5r55zwo |title=Skye man murdered brother-in-law during shooting spree |date=29 November 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=29 November 2024}}
• GP leaders in Scotland vote in favour of a motion to ballot workers on industrial action over pay, following what they describe as "years of disinvestment in general practice".{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9ql8zw0eelo |title=GP leaders vote to ballot staff on strike action |date=29 November 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=29 November 2024}}
• 30 November – The Proclaimers perform at a memorial service for former first minister Alex Salmond, held at Edinburgh's St Giles' Cathedral.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0j80yxzy09o |title=The Proclaimers to sing at Alex Salmond memorial service |date=27 November 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=27 November 2024}}

• 1 December – NHS Grampian suspends visiting at Dr Gray's Hospital in Elgin following an outbreak of vomiting and diarrhoea.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9vk8n714ywo |title=Dr Gray's Hospital suspends visits after vomiting bug outbreak |date=1 December 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=1 December 2024}}
• 3 December –
• A teenage boy is sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum of 18 years for the murder of Danielle Davidson, who was stabbed with a Rambo-style knife following an argument over a e-scooter in Edinburgh in May 2023.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y48406m93o |title=Boy detained for murdering Edinburgh woman with 'Rambo' knife |date=3 December 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=3 December 2024}}
• A report by Audit Scotland says that fundamental changes are required in the way NHS Scotland provides services are "urgently needed" and that "difficult decisions" about whether some services can continue to be provided may need to be taken.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c390kw0kv18o |title=Scottish NHS reform 'urgently needed' – watchdog |date=3 December 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=3 December 2024}}
• 4 December –
• Finance Secretary Shona Robison delivers the 2024 budget, which includes planned changes to taxation and a pledge to scrap the two child benefit cap in Scotland.{{Cite web |first=Phil |last=Sim |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce8ndr578e8o |title=Five key takeaways from the Scottish Budget |date=4 December 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=4 December 2024}}
• Rocket manufacturer Orbex announces plans to pause the construction of a spaceport in Sutherland in order to focus on the construction of its SaxaVord Spaceport site in Shetland.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c623dlz2p55o |title=Rocket firm 'pauses' plan for Highland spaceport in Sutherland |date=4 December 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=4 December 2024}}
• 6 December –
• First Minister John Swinney and Prime Minister Keir Starmer hold private talks about the Scottish Government's plans to scrap the two child benefit cap, which are later described as "helpful".{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjr241g0x8zo |title=PM and FM have 'helpful' talks over two-child cap |date=5 December 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=6 December 2024}}
• A single case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) has been identified on a farm in Dumfries and Galloway, authorities confirm.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce8n973zd94o |title=Single case of BSE confirmed in cow on Dumfries and Galloway farm |date=6 December 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=6 December 2024}}
• Professor Iain Gillespie resigns as principal of Dundee University following controversy over a £7,000 business trip he and a colleague took to Hong Kong.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c23v80lzv2zo |title=Under-fire Dundee University principal resigns |date=6 December 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=6 December 2024}}
• 7 December –
• Storm Darragh: An amber warning for high winds, and yellow warnings for wind and rain, are in place in Scotland. Damage caused by the storm includes at Castle Douglas High School where the roof of the building was partially blown off.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpw2rgkvx1zo |title=Amber warning as Storm Darragh hits Scotland |date=6 December 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=7 December 2024}}
• Coastguard searching for a commercial scallop diver, missing in Scapa Flow, Orkney since 27 November, find a body.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgm99nxew0wo |title=Body found in search for diver missing in Orkney's Scapa Flow |date=7 December 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=7 December 2024}}
• A 19-year-old man is killed, and three other people injured, in a crash on the outskirts of Inverurie, Aberdeenshire.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq62grd6v92o |title=Man, 19, killed and three injured in Inverurie crash |date=8 December 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=8 December 2024}}
• A 41-year-old woman, subsequently named as Michelle McLeod, is killed in a dog attack at a flat in Aberdeen.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y4vjl8yyzo|title=Woman, 41, killed in dog attack in Aberdeen |date=9 December 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=9 December 2024}}
• 8 December –
• Police Scotland confirm human remains have been found in the wreckage of a plane discovered in the North Sea, near Lerwick, Shetland.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgnxxz931yo |title=Wreckage of missing plane discovered off Shetland |date=8 December 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=8 December 2024}}
• Scottish Labour suspends Cammy Day, the leader of Edinburgh City Council, pending the outcome of a police investigation into alleged inappropriate behaviour.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9wllwex1j8o |title=Police investigating Labour's Edinburgh council leader Cammy Day |date=8 December 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=8 December 2024}}
• 9 December –
• Cammy Day confirms he has stepped down as leader of Edinburgh City Council after Police Scotland launched an investigation into allegations he bombarded Ukrainian refugees with questions, including those of a sexual nature.{{Cite web| url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gxp093gwno |title=Cammy Day: Edinburgh council leader quits over alleged messages |date=9 December 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=9 December 2024}}
• BBC Scotland announces the launch of two new news programmes in early 2025: Reporting Scotland: News at Seven, a weeknight news bulletin presented by Laura Maciver and Amy Irons on the BBC Scotland channel from 6 January, and the Scotcast podcast with Martin Geissler launching on 13 January.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c75wzyr3zzko |title=BBC Scotland to launch Scotcast and News at Seven in January |date=9 December 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=9 December 2024}}
• 10 December –
• A Scottish Government spokesman confirms that First Minister John Swinney has spoken by phone with US President-elect Donald Trump for the first time since his re-election, and described the 20 minute discussion as "positive".{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyvjr1j0xjo |title=John Swinney has 'positive' phone talks with Donald Trump |date=10 December 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=10 December 2024}}
• The Scottish Government backs plans to bar dual mandates – MSPs who also sit as MPs or members of the House of Lords – from sitting at Holyrood after the 2026 Scottish Parliament election.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crmnj33dwkdo |title=Scottish government backs bid to bar dual mandates for MSPs |date=10 December 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=10 December 2024}}
• 11 December – The Scottish Government announces that Scotland will follow the UK's permanent ban on the use of puberty blockers for under-18s questioning their gender.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdr0xrpzjzko |title=Scotland to follow UK ban on puberty blockers for under-18s |date=11 December 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=11 December 2024}}
• 12 December – Catholic priest Father Daniel Doherty is sentenced to 16 months in prison after sexually assaulting a sleeping man on a train to Edinburgh.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyx0343zzjo |title=Priest jailed for sex attack on sleeping man on Edinburgh train |date=12 December 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=12 December 2024}}
• 13 December – The Glasgow South Western Line is closed between Carlisle and Gretna after a HGV crashes off the A74(M) motorway onto the railway line near Gretna; the driver is arrested and charged over the incident.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c205xqw10gko |title=Lorry driver charged after crash on railway line crash at Gretna |date=13 December 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=13 December 2024}}
• 14 December – Seven people are taken to hospital for treatment, with one man in a critical condition, after the roof of a double-decker bus is torn off when it collides with a railway bridge in Glasgow City Centre after taking a wrong turn.{{Cite web |first=Mary |last=McCool |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyk3pyp7yno |title=Roof tears off bus after crashing into railway bridge |date=14 December 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=14 December 2024}}{{Cite web |first=Mary |last=McCool |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62zd52p7vxo |title=Man critical after bus crashes into railway bridge |date=15 December 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=15 December 2024}}
• 15 December –
• Violence and disorder breaks out in Glasgow city centre ahead of the Scottish League Cup final between Celtic and Rangers at Hampden Park.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62zd50e21ko |title=Scottish League Cup: Football fans throw missiles in pre-match violence |date=15 December 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=15 December 2024}}
• An IT issue forces flights at Edinburgh Airport to be suspended for several hours.{{Cite web |first1=Ashleigh |last1=Keenan-Bryce |first2=Emma |last2=Rossiter |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9wl18r0x98o |title=Edinburgh Airport flights resume after IT issue grounded planes |date=15 December 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=15 December 2024}}
• 17 December –
• MSPs vote unanimously in favour of plans to ban dual mandates.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3e3zzz7lkvo |title=Scottish parliament votes for plans to end MSP 'double-jobbing' |date=17 December 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=17 December 2024}}
• Following an external review into the use of messaging services, Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes announces that Scottish Government ministers and staff will be banned from using WhatsApp for official business.{{Cite web |first=Angus |last=Cochrane |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c791lq40v3wo |title=Scottish government to ban WhatsApp for official business |date=17 December 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=17 December 2024}}
• Former First Minister Humza Yousaf announces he will step down as an MSP at the 2026 Scottish Parliament election.{{Cite web |first=Angus |last=Cochrane |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2ld7je8x2lo |title=Ex-First Minister Humza Yousaf to step down as MSP at next election |date=17 December 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=17 December 2024}}
• Edinburgh City Council says it is taking steps to prevent harmful content from being accessed on school-issued iPads after it emerged content such as pornography and violence can be viewed by students, even with internet filters in place.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czr36828mg1o |title=Probe after adult content viewed on school iPads |date=17 December 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=17 December 2024}}
• 18 December – Reform UK confirms that Craig Campbell, a party official in Scotland, has been removed from his post after revelations his family has links to Ulster Loyalists and has a relatives who was convicted of murdering a Celtic fan.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy0nqzj54wlo |title=Reform remove Scottish official after claim about family |date=18 December 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=19 December 2024}}
• 19 December –
• A double-decker bus has its roof torn off after crashing into a railway bridge in Kilmarnock.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20e3z7vg07o |title=Double decker bus roof torn off in Kilmarnock bridge crash |date=19 December 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=19 December 2024}}
• Jane Meagher is voted to replace Cammy Day as leader of Edinburgh City Council, and will lead a Labour minority administration.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg9rwze1qzo |title=Labour retains City of Edinburgh Council leadership |date=19 December 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=19 December 2024}}
• Alan Edwards, an extremist who holds homophobic and antisemitic views and amassed an "armoury" at his home in Falkirk, and discussed launching an attack on a local LGBT group, is sentenced to ten years imprisonment. His sentence also includes a five year supervision order upon release.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7864zqx84no |title=Neo-Nazi found with home 'armoury' jailed for terrorism offences |date=19 December 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=19 December 2024}}
• 23 December –
• The pilot of a light aircraft is killed in an air crash near Fife Airport.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgq1zdj858qo |title=Pilot killed in light aircraft crash in field near Fife Airport |date=23 December 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=23 December 2024}}
• An investigation into the December 2023 Broughty Ferry train crash finds that a train collided with a fallen tree because a warning did not reach the driver in time.{{Cite web |first=Graeme |last=Ogston |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgm9nrvwmkjo |title=Fallen tree warning given too late to stop crash |date=23 December 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=23 December 2024}}
• 24 December – The Scottish Ambulance Service is put on the highest level of emergency due to "significant pressure" placed on services.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9dpvg8x6vpo|title=Scottish Ambulance Service declares highest level of emergency|date=24 December 2024|website=BBC News}}
• 27 December –
• The Met Office issues a yellow weather warning for rain over Hogmanay, starting on 30 December and lasting over the New Year.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c786lez5n1po |title=Yellow weather warning issued for Hogmanay in Scotland |date=27 December 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=27 December 2024}}
• Public Health Scotland says health services in Scotland are under "acute pressure" following a surge in flu cases.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2l96730lyo |title=Surge in flu puts Scotland's health services under 'pressure' |date=27 December 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=27 December 2024}}
• Caledonian MacBrayne is forced to reduce the number of passengers allowed on the MV Isle of Mull to 45 per journey after failing a safety check.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq62j3z682lo |title=CalMac cuts passenger numbers over ferry's safety check failure |date=28 December 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=29 December 2024}}
• 29 December – Emergency services searching for keen wild swimmer Ian Napier, missing from the Scousburgh Bay area since 27 December, find a body in the sea near Shetland.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn08p5j5gz8o |title=Body found in search for wild water swimmer in Shetland |date=29 December 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=29 December 2024}}
• 30 December –
• Edinburgh's Hogmanay celebrations are cancelled amid weather warnings for heavy rain, high winds and snow over the New Year.{{Cite web |first1=Hafsa |last1=Khalil |first2=Malu |last2=Cursino |first3=Elizabeth |last3=Rizzini |first4=Darren |last4=Bett |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c785k44yj12o|title=Hogmanay celebrations cancelled as UK-wide weather warnings take hold |date=30 December 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=30 December 2024}}
• 2025 New Year Honours: Among those to be recognised in the New Year Honours are broadcaster Jackie Bird (MBE), footballer and broadcaster Alan Hansen (MBE) and Olympic swimmer Duncan Scott (OBE).{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg4zp7reyvdo |title=Jackie Bird and Alan Hansen lead New Year Honours in Scotland |date=30 December 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=31 December 2024}}

• 2024 Scottish Rally Championship

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• 1 January – New Year's Day
• 2 January – New Year Holiday
• 29 March – Good Friday
• 6 May – Early May bank holiday
• 27 May – Spring May Bank Holiday
• 5 August – August Bank Holiday
• 30 November – Saint Andrew's Day
• 25 December – Christmas Day
• 26 December – Boxing Day

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• 15 January – Denis Connaghan, 79, footballer (Celtic, St Mirren, Morton).{{Cite web|url=https://www.stmirren.com/all-news/st-mirren-pays-condolences-to-denis-connaghan |title=St Mirren pays condolences to Denis Connaghan |website=www.stmirren.com |access-date=17 January 2024}} (death announced on this date)
• 27 January – Stuart Gray, 50, footballer (Celtic, Reading, Rushden & Diamonds), cancer.{{Cite web|url=https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/sport/24078986.former-celtic-player-stuart-gray-dies-aged-50/ |title=Former Celtic midfielder Stuart Gray dies aged 50 |date=27 January 2024 |website=Glasgow Times |access-date=27 January 2024}} (death announced on this date)
• 30 January – Ally Shewan, 83, footballer (Aberdeen) and manager (Elgin City).{{Cite web|url=https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/sport/football/aberdeen-fc/6357223/aberdeen-captain-ally-shewan-tributes/ |title='A great ambassador for Aberdeen': Tributes paid to former Dons captain Ally Shewan |first=Danny |last=Law |date=30 January 2024 |access-date=30 January 2024 |publisher=Press and Journal}} (death announced on this date)
• 4 February – Mallorca Lee, 51, DJ, producer, (Ultra-Sonic), (Public Domain).{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-68182367 |title=Mallorca Lee: Ultra Sonic DJ dies after short cancer battle |date=5 February 2024 |access-date=10 February 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• 9 February – Peter Handyside, 49, footballer (Grimsby Town, Stoke City, Barnsley).{{Cite web|url=https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/stoke-city-peter-handyside-died-9091586 |title=Stoke City lead tributes to tragic former captain Peter Handyside |first=Peter |last=Smith |date=10 February 2024 |website=Stoke on Trent Live |access-date=10 February 2024}}
• 16 February – Ian McMillan, 92, footballer (Airdrieonians, Rangers, national team).{{Cite web|url=https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/rangers-icon-ian-mcmillan-passes-32142179 |title=Rangers icon Ian McMillan passes away aged 92 as club pay loving tribute |first=Graeme |last=Young |date=16 February 2024 |website=Daily Record |access-date=16 February 2024}} (death announced on this date)
• 23 February – Harry Melrose, 88, footballer (Dunfermline Athletic, Aberdeen, Berwick Rangers) and manager.{{Cite web|url=https://dafc.co.uk/harry-melrose/ |title=Harry Melrose |publisher=Dunfermline Athletic Football Club |first=Craig |last=Brown |date=23 February 2024 |access-date=24 February 2024}} (death announced on this date)
• 24 February – Stewart Robertson, 75, conductor.{{Cite web|url=https://operawire.com/obituary-conductor-stewart-robertson-dies-at-75/ |title=Obituary: Conductor Stewart Robertson Dies at 75 |first=Francisco |last=Salazar |date=19 February 2024 |website=OperaWire |access-date=24 February 2024}} (death announced on this date)
• 29 February – Tiffany Scott, 32, sex offender and transgender prisoner.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-68442073 |title=Trans prisoner Tiffany Scott dies in jail |date=29 February 2024 |access-date=29 February 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• 7 March – Nick Sheridan, 32, Irish journalist and television presenter (News2day, Reporting Scotland, The Nine){{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-68500871 |title=BBC Scotland presenter Nick Sheridan dies after short illness |date=7 March 2024 |access-date=8 March 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}} (Death announced on this date)
• 14 March – Angela McCluskey, 64, Scottish singer (Wild Colonials) and songwriter ("Breathe").{{Cite web|url=https://metro.co.uk/2024/03/15/angela-mccluskey-dead-64-tributes-pour-singer-20468893/ |title=Singer Angela McCluskey dies aged 64 with Rain Phoenix leading tributes |first=Alistair |last=McGeorge |date=15 March 2024 |access-date=15 March 2024}}
• 15 March – Peter Kelly, 82, Scottish actor (The Tall Guy, Welcome to Sarajevo).{{Cite web|url=https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/scottish-news/24189258.theatre-legend-starred-glasgow-panto-died/ |title=Theatre 'legend' who starred in Glasgow panto has died |date=15 March 2024 |website=Glasgow Times |access-date=17 March 2024}}
• 18 March – Peter McAleese, 81, Scottish soldier and mercenary.{{Cite web|url=https://www.aberdeenlive.news/news/aberdeen-news/sas-hardman-famous-nearly-killing-9178438 |title=SAS 'hardman' famous for nearly killing Pablo Escobar dies aged 81 |first1=Tom |last1=McGhie |first2=Ruaraidh |last2=Britton |date=20 March 2024 |website=Aberdeen Live |access-date=20 March 2024}}
• 20 March – Billy Kellock, 70, Scottish footballer (Cardiff City, Peterborough United, Wolverhampton Wanderers).{{Cite web|url=https://www.lutontown.co.uk/news/2024/march/billy-kellock-rest-in-peace/ |title=Rest in Peace Billy Kellock |website=www.lutontown.co.uk |access-date=20 March 2024}}
• 29 March – Iain McChesney, 79, Scottish footballer (Queen of the South).{{Cite web|url=https://www.qosfc.com/news-6357 |title=QosFC: Iain McChesney |website=www.qosfc.com |access-date=30 March 2024}}
• 14 April –
• Vincent Friell, 64, Scottish actor (Trainspotting, Restless Natives, The Angels' Share).{{Cite web|url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/24256932.restless-natives-trainspotting-actor-dies-aged-64/ |title=Restless Natives and Trainspotting actor Vincent Friell dies aged 64 |date=16 April 2024 |website=The Herald |access-date=16 April 2024}}
• Willie Limond, 45, Scottish boxer and footballer (Albion Rovers), complications from a seizure.{{Cite web|url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/boxing/breaking-boxer-willie-limond-dies-32588641 |title=Ex-champion boxer dies just before comeback fight after seizure while driving |first=Martin |last=Domin |date=15 April 2024 |website=The Mirror |access-date=16 April 2024}}
• 18 April – Dave Moyes, 68, Scottish footballer (Berwick Rangers, Meadowbank Thistle, Dunfermline Athletic).{{Cite web|url=https://dafc.co.uk/david-moyes/|title=David Moyes |first=Craig |last=Brown |date=18 April 2024 |website=Dunfermline Athletic Football Club |access-date=18 April 2024}}
• 23 April – Fergie MacDonald, 86, Scottish accordionist.{{Cite web|url=https://www.westcoasttoday.co.uk/news/moidarts-own-ceilidh-king-fergie-macdonald-dies-just-one-day-before-his-87th-birthday |title=Moidart's own Ceilidh King Fergie MacDonald dies just one day before his 87th birthday |website=West Coast Today |access-date=24 April 2024}}
• 28 April – Brian McCardie, 59, Scottish actor (Rob Roy, Speed 2: Cruise Control, Ellie Parker) and writer.{{Cite web|url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/24288526.time-line-duty-actor-brian-mccardie-dies-aged-59/ |title=Glasgow Line of Duty and Time actor Brian McCardie dies aged 59 |date=30 April 2024 |website=The Herald |access-date=30 April 2024}}
• 29 April – Christian, 80, Scottish singer and entertainer.{{Cite web |first=Mary |last=McCool |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqvny76pg9eo|title=Scottish showbiz and panto star Christian dies at 80 |date=2 May 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=2 May 2024}}
• 3 May – Jim Rodger, 90, Scottish footballer (St Mirren, Rangers, Queen of the South).{{Cite web|url=https://www.stmirren.com/all-news/5401-st-mirren-pay-condolences-following-sad-passing-of-jim-rodger |title=St Mirren pay condolences following sad passing of Jim Rodger |website=www.stmirren.com |access-date=5 May 2024}}
• 14 May – Gudrun Ure, 98, Scottish actress (Super Gran, The Million Pound Note, The Crow Road).{{Cite web |first=Jonathan |last=Geddes |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq5nnn53wldo |title=Super Gran star Gudrun Ure dies aged 98 |date=14 May 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=15 May 2024}}
• 20 May – Gerry Collins, 69, Scottish football player (Ayr United, Hamilton Academical, Partick Thistle) and manager.{{Cite web|url=https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/local-sport/tributes-paid-hamilton-accies-partick-32850085 |title=Tributes paid as Hamilton Accies and Partick Thistle legend passes away |first=Andy |last=McGilvray |date=20 May 2024 |website=Daily Record |access-date=21 May 2024}}
• 22 May – David Wilkie, 70, Scottish swimmer, Olympic champion (1976), world champion (1973, 1975), cancer.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/swimming/articles/c3ggndekv8lo |title=David Wilkie: Olympic champion swimmer dies aged 70 |date=22 May 2024 |website=BBC Sport |publisher=BBC |access-date=22 May 2024}}
• 24 May – Stuart Borrowman, 71, Scottish politician.{{Cite web|url=https://news.westlothian.gov.uk/article/82229/Tribute-to-Councillor-Stuart-Borrowman |title=Tribute to Councillor Stuart Borrowman |website=West Lothian News |date=26 May 2024 |access-date=26 May 2024}}
• 29 May – John Burnside, 69, Scottish writer and poet.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cv22nzn27ddo |title=Award-winning poet John Burnside dies aged 69 |date=31 May 2024 |website=BBC News |access-date=1 June 2024 |publisher=BBC}}
• 5 June – David Scott, 83, Scottish journalist and broadcaster (Scottish Daily Express, BBC Scotland, STV).{{Cite web|url=https://news.stv.tv/scotland/colossus-of-scottish-journalism-david-scott-dies-at-the-age-of-83|title='Colossus of Scottish journalism' David Scott dies at the age of 83 |first=Bernard |last=Ponsonby |date=5 June 2024 |website=STV News |access-date=7 June 2024}} (death announced on this date)
• 18 June – Billy Abercromby, 65, Scottish footballer (St Mirren, Partick Thistle, Dunfermline Athletic).{{Cite web|url=https://www.thenational.scot/sport/24395555.st-mirren-legend-billy-abercromby-dies-aged-65/ |title=St Mirren legend Billy Abercromby dies aged 65 as tributes paid to fan favourite |date=18 June 2024 |website=The National |access-date=18 June 2024}} (death announced on this date)
• 26 June – Pat Heywood, 92, actress (Lucky Feller, Wuthering Heights, Inspector Morse, Root Into Europe){{cite web|last=Barnes|first=Mike|title=Pat Heywood, the Nurse in Franco Zeffirelli's 'Romeo and Juliet,' Dies at 92|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/pat-heywood-dead-franco-zeffirelli-romeo-juliet-1235959069/|website=The Hollywood Reporter|date=26 July 2024|access-date=27 July 2024}}
• 27 June – Donald Scott, 96, Scottish rugby union player (Langholm, South of Scotland District, national team).{{Cite web|url=https://scottishrugby.org/obituary-donald-scott/ |title=Obituary: Donald Scott |first=Stuart |last=MacLennan |website=Scottish Rugby |date=22 June 2024 |access-date=27 June 2024}}
• 28 July – John Anderson, 92, Scottish television personality (Gladiators).{{Cite web|url=https://athleticsweekly.com/athletics-news/coaching-legend-john-anderson-dies-aged-92-1039990154/ |title=Coaching legend John Anderson dies aged 92 |date=28 July 2024 |accessdate=29 July 2024 |publisher=Athletics Weekly}}
• 4 August – Jim Doherty, 65, Scottish footballer (Kilmarnock, Clyde, Queen of the South).{{Cite web|url=https://www.clydefc.co.uk/news/2024/08/jim-doherty/ |title=Jim Doherty |first=Sean |last=Hart |date=5 August 2024 |website=Clyde F.C. |accessdate=10 August 2024}}
• 5 August – George Herd, 88, Scottish football player (Sunderland, national team) and manager (Queen of the South).{{Cite web|url=https://www.clydefc.co.uk/news/2024/08/george-herd/ |title=George Herd |first=Sean |last=Hart |date=5 August 2024 |website=Clyde F.C. |accessdate=8 August 2024}}
• 6 August –
• Ron Bain, 79, Scottish actor (Naked Video, A Kick Up the Eighties) and director (I, Lovett).{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy766zxpv0go |title='Naked Video' actor and director Ron Bain dies aged 79 |website=BBC News |date=6 August 2024 |accessdate=8 August 2024}} (death announced on this date)
• Bobby Thomson, 87, Scottish footballer (Aston Villa, Birmingham City).{{Cite web|url=https://www.avfc.co.uk/news/2024/august/06/bobby-thomson--1937-2024-/ |title=Bobby Thomson (1937–2024) |date=6 August 2024 |website=Aston Villa Football Club |accessdate=8 August 2024}}
• 9 August – Brian Marjoribanks, 82, Scottish footballer (Hibernian), actor and broadcaster (BBC Scotland).{{Cite web|url=https://www.scotsman.com/news/scottish-news/tributes-to-scottish-football-star-who-became-successful-actor-and-broadcaster-4738391 |title=Tributes to Scottish football star who became successful actor and broadcaster |date=12 August 2024 |publisher=The Scotsman |accessdate=13 August 2024}}
• 12 August – Alex Kinninmouth, 82, Scottish footballer (Dundee, Dunfermline Athletic, Forfar Athletic).{{Cite web|url=https://dundeefc.co.uk/news/alex-kinninmonth/ |title=Alex Kinninmonth – 1941–2024 |date=12 August 2024 |website=Dundee Football Club |accessdate=13 August 2024}} (death announced on this date)
• 2 September – Mick Cullen, 93, Scottish footballer (Luton Town, Grimsby Town, national team).{{Cite web|url=https://www.lutontoday.co.uk/sport/football/luton-town/former-luton-town-derby-county-and-scotland-winger-cullen-passes-away-4766900 |title=Former Luton Town, Derby County and Scotland winger Cullen passes away |date=3 September 2024 |publisher=Luton Today |accessdate=3 September 2024}}
• 3 September – Flora Fraser, 21st Lady Saltoun, 93, Scottish peer, member of the House of Lords (1979–2014).{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2024/09/04/lady-saltoun-royal-family-hereditary-peer/ |title=Lady Saltoun, member of the Royal family with a hereditary peerage who enlivened the House of Lords – obituary |date=4 September 2024 |accessdate=4 September 2024 |publisher=The Telegraph}}
• 6 September – Ron Yeats, 86, Scottish footballer (Dundee United, Liverpool, Tranmere Rovers).{{cite web |title=Ron Yeats: Liverpool legend dies aged 86 |url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c62348nw4yqo |website=BBC Sport |publisher=BBC |date=7 September 2024}}
• 17 September – Kenny Hyslop, 73, Scottish drummer (Slik, Zones, Simple Minds).{{Cite web|url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/24590302.tributes-simple-minds-drummer-kenny-hyslop-dies-aged-73/ |title=Tributes paid following death of 'much loved' Simple Minds drummer |date=17 September 2024 |website=The Herald |accessdate=17 September 2024}} (death announced on this date)
• 18 September – Sam Malcolmson, 77, Scottish-born New Zealand footballer (Queen of the South, Albion Rovers, national team).{{Cite web|url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/football/all-whites/former-all-whites-defender-sam-malcolmson-passes-away-aged-77/QRW7S5ZS7BFOVDPCZKX4YQRZ3U/ |title=Former All Whites defender dies aged 77 |date=18 September 2024 |website=NZ Herald |accessdate=21 September 2024}}
• 10 October – Peter Cormack, 78, Scottish football player (Liverpool, national team) and manager (Partick Thistle).{{Cite web|url=https://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/liverpool-fc-deeply-saddened-passing-peter-cormack |title=Liverpool FC deeply saddened by passing of Peter Cormack |publisher=Liverpool FC |date=11 October 2024 |accessdate=11 October 2024}}
• 12 October
• Jackmaster, 38, Scottish DJ and record producer.{{cite web |last1=Pilley |first1=Max |title=Jackmaster dies from accidental head injury aged 38 |url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/jackmaster-dies-from-accidental-head-injury-aged-38-3802158 |website=NME |date=12 October 2024}}
• Alex Salmond, 69, politician, first minister (2007–2014).{{cite news|title=Scotland's former First Minister Alex Salmond dies age 69|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8rd8z70pn8o|work=BBC News|publisher=BBC|date=12 October 2024}}
• 13 October – Jim Liddle, 66, Scottish footballer (Forfar Athletic, Cowdenbeath, Hamilton Academical).{{Cite web|url=https://www.centralfifetimes.com/sport/24659421.cowdenbeath-former-striker-jim-gunner-liddle-passes-away/ |title=Blue Brazil mourn loss of former hero 'Gunner' |date=17 October 2024 |website=Central Fife Times |accessdate=18 October 2024}}
• 22 October –
• Jim McColl, 89, Scottish horticulturalist and television presenter (Beechgrove).{{Cite web |date=2024-10-23 |title=Television's Beechgrove Garden presenter Jim McColl dies |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c154g4jyxppo |access-date=2024-10-25 |website=BBC News |language=en-GB}}
• Myra McFadyen, 68, Scottish actress (Made of Honor, Mamma Mia!, Emma).{{Cite web|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/movies/myra-mcfadyen-mamma-mia-dead-newsupdate/ |title=Myra McFadyen, Mamma Mia and Made of Honour actress, dies aged 68 |publisher=Radio Times |accessdate=26 October 2024}} (death announced on this date)
• 25 October – Tommy Callaghan, 78, Scottish football player (Dunfermline Athletic, Celtic, Clydebank) and manager.{{Cite web|url=https://www.celticfc.com/news/2024/october/25/the-great-tommy-callaghan-passes-away/ |title=The great Tommy Callaghan passes away |date=25 October 2024 |website=Celtic FC |accessdate=26 October 2024}}
• 2 November – Janey Godley, 63, Scottish stand-up comedian and writer.{{Cite web|url=https://news.sky.com/story/scottish-comedian-janey-godley-dies-aged-63-13246433 |title=Scottish comedian Janey Godley dies aged 63 |website=Sky News |date=2 November 2024 |accessdate=2 November 2024}}
• 10 November – Derrick Grant, 86, Scottish rugby union player (Hawick, national team).{{Cite web|url=https://scottishrugby.org/obituary-derrick-grant/ |title=OBITUARY: Derrick Grant |first=Sarah |last=Bell |date=12 November 2024 |website=Scottish Rugby |accessdate=14 November 2024}}
• 22 November – Kenny Aird, 77, Scottish footballer (St Mirren, St Johnstone, Heart of Midlothian).{{Cite web|url=https://www.perthstjohnstonefc.co.uk/news/article/obituary-kenny-aird |title=Obituary: Kenny Aird |website=St Johnstone Football Club |accessdate=23 November 2024}}
• 28 November – John McNamee, 83, Scottish footballer (Newcastle United, Hibernian, Blackburn Rovers).{{Cite web|url=https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/newcastle-united-hero-john-mcnamee-30471434 |title=Newcastle hero John McNamee dies aged 83 as tributes paid to 'a giant of a man' |first=John |last=Gibson |date=28 November 2024 |website=Chronicle Live |accessdate=29 November 2024}} (death announced on this date)
• 4 December – John Docherty, 84, Scottish football player (Brentford) and manager (Millwall, Cambridge United).{{cite web|url=https://www.millwallfc.co.uk/news/2024/december/04/john-docherty/ |title=John Docherty |publisher=Millwall Football Club |accessdate=4 December 2024}} (death announced on this date)
• 11 December – Alex Edwards, 78, Scottish footballer (Dunfermline Athletic, Hibernian).{{Cite web|url=https://dafc.co.uk/alex-edwards-14-march-1946-11-december-2024/ |title=Alex Edwards: 14 February 1946 – 11 December 2024 |publisher=Dunfermline Athletic Football Club |first=Craig |last=Brown |date=12 December 2024 |accessdate=13 December 2024}}
• 28 December – Charlie Wright, 86, Scottish football player (Grimsby Town, Charlton Athletic) and manager (Bolton Wanderers){{Cite web|url=https://www.bwfc.co.uk/news/charlie-wright-1938-2024 |title=Charlie Wright: 1938–2024 |publisher=Bolton Wanderers FC |accessdate=28 December 2024}}

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