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 ...

It was the largest event hosted by the Orkney community of 22,000 people and involved 1,027 local volunteers.

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

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 ...

Sick of being ignored by far-away politicians, officials on Scotland’s remote Orkney Islands are mulling a drastic solution: rejoining Norway, the Scandinavian country that gave them away as a royal ...

Archaeologists are set to resume digging at a prominent Neolithic site in Orkney after making an extraordinary' discovery ...

It's rewarding to see this report reflect, what everyone felt throughout the week; that the Games were a resounding success ...

The 87-year-old driver was airlifted to hospital in Aberdeen but died a few hours later.

Orkney Islands Council has named a 29-year-old as Scotland's youngest local authority leader. Heather Woodbridge also becomes the first woman to lead the island council. The independent was elected in ...

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 Islands Council, a regional government in northern Scotland, has issued a tender to buy a used BN-2 B-26, its third ...