Securing the loan from the National Wealth Fund is a major step forward for an ambition held by Scotland’s smallest council to build three such wind farms on its home soil, under the Orkney Community ...

Timeless Orkney-based distillery Highland Park is well-known for its award-winning, complex single malt Scotch whiskies.

In Amy Liptrot’s 2016 memoirThe Outrun, about her recovery from alcoholism, Orkney became a place to hide out. She had grown up among the purple heather and the wind-beaten plains, and they were to ...

Orkney is considering breaking away from the UK and could become part of Norway under new proposals. The archipelago off the north of Scotland, which is made up of 70 islands, is going ahead with ...

ORKNEY is set to be home to the UK's largest publicly-owned wind farm in a major new project. Construction on the wind farm ...

Orkney Islands' councilors have voted to investigate alternative methods of governance amid deep frustrations over funding and opportunities. Council leader James Stockan said the islands had been ...

Orkney’s mobile library van, affectionately known as Booky McBookface, will distribute boxes across the archipelago.

Mobile library van "Booky McBookface" will help distribute Wintering Well boxes across the islands, which will include a ...

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 residents will benefit from a programme to help those with Seasonal Adjustment Disorder (SAD) in a bid to improve ...

Ann Cleeves said she wrote The Killing Stones as a one off, but now thinks there could more more book to follow.