On December 9, 2025 in Orkney, Scotland, UK, @OrkneyUncovered shared a video showing sea foam settling along the cliffs after ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

A Scottish couple are selling a 19th-century church that they converted into vacation apartments. Kirkdale Apartments in Evie, Orkney, is on the market for £525,000, or around $650,900. The couple ...