Orkney Islands Council has secured a £62.1m loan from the National Wealth Fund to build its six-turbine Quanterness wind farm ...

Salt on the breeze, stone underfoot, and shop windows that still change with the seasons: this town moves at human speed. On ...

On a recent trip to Great Britain, I decided at the last minute to snip two days off from my time in London and go somewhere I've never been before: the Orkney Islands. Perched just an hour's ferry ...

Seabirds wheel, red sandstone glows, and a single street funnels island life into one colourful spine of shops and stories. In 2019, Kirkwall’s main ...

LONDON, July 3 (Reuters) - Britain's Orkney Islands, an archipelago about 10 miles off the north coast of Scotland, is considering "alternative forms of governance" which could include becoming part ...

Could this beautiful island manor, located next to a world-famous Neolithic site and above a Pictish burial ground, be the ...

Standing Stones, also known as "the First Stonehenge," in the Ring O Brodgar in Orkney © Andrew Wilson/LOOP IMAGES/Loop Images/Corbis Ten years ago a farmer was ...

Orkney councillors have voted to investigate alternative methods of governance amid deep frustrations over funding and opportunities. Council leader James Stockan said the islands had been "held down" ...

A SCOTS radio show was thrown into chaos live on air this morning after its system crashed. BBC Radio Orkney’s 7.30am show ...

It is, at last count, Scotland’s cleanest council. But Orkney is still having to spend a penny - or rather more - on a very particular problem. The islands’ local authority, rather coyly, has said it ...

"It flies cleaner and is more efficient" - Hybrid-electric plane trialled over Scotland Scotland's first electric-powered aircraft has taken to the skies from a new test centre in Orkney. One of the ...