Skye and Lochalsh (local government district, Highland region)

Skye and Lochalsh (Scottish Gaelic: An t-Eilean Sgitheanach agus Loch Aillse) is one of eight former local government districts of the two-tier Highland region of Scotland. The main offices of the Skye and Lochalsh district council were in Portree, on the Isle of Skye.

As statutory local government areas, the region and districts were created in 1975, under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, and abolished in 1996, under the Local Government etc (Scotland) Act 1994. The area of the region is now the Highland unitary council area, and the former Skye and Lochalsh district is within the Highland Council's Ross, Skye and Lochaber corporate management area.

The 1973 legislation abolished local government counties and burghs throughout Scotland and created a new system of nine two-tier regions and three islands council areas. Each region consisted of a number of districts and the islands areas were created as unitary council areas. The Skye and Lochash district of the Highland region was created by merging a district of the former county of Inverness (the Skye district, consisting of the Skye group of Inner Hebridean islands) with a district of the former county of Ross and Cromarty (the South West district, consisting of an area around and including the village of Kyle of Lochalsh).

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