ARCHAEOLOGISTS have hailed an “extraordinary discovery” on Orkney – but won’t reveal what it is yet. The dig team at the Ness ...

FILE - Visitors look at the 5,000 year-old remains of Skara Brae village in the Scottish Orkney Islands, July 19, 2005, which was revealed by a huge storm in 1850. Sick of being ignored by far-away ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mark Rowe investigates the surge in whale strandings along Scotland’s coast — a warning sign, scientists say, of deeper ...

Read the issue » The Stones of Stenness are part of one of Europe’s richest archeological landscapes—the legacy of a ...

Places for People Scotland has joined forces with Orkney Islands Council to build 500 homes on the islands, and will be the ...

London — It was a pretty routine order for Dan ap Dafydd. The shopkeeper on Scotland's remote Orkney Islands was just trying to get ahead of the looming Easter holiday rush by ordering chocolate eggs ...

On 2 June 1994, Shamsuddin Mahmood, 26, was killed by a single shot as he served customers in an Indian restaurant in Orkney.

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 ...