A £150,000 operation to track down a lone stoat on a remote Orkney island has so far failed to catch its target. The animal, ...

Inganess Bay on Orkney Mainland, Scotland, reveals a striking abandoned shipwreck resting in calm coastal waters. From above, ...

A solitary stoat sighted on a remote Scottish island is still at large despite a £150,000 effort to remove the invasive predator.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - Visitors look at the 5,000 year-old remains of Skara Brae village in the Scottish Orkney Islands, July 19, 2005, which was ...

Two new affordable homes on the Orkney island of Eday have attracted a huge surge in interest after they were posted on ...

A new map of the South Orkney Islands has been released by British Antarctic Survey (BAS) – the first UK published, topographic map of the region in almost 40 years. Created by the Mapping and ...

The 20th International Island Games held in Orkney this summer boosted the local economy by £4m, a report has confirmed. The event, held over six days in July, cost £3.6m to stage and involved 1,630 ...

SSEN Transmission’s £1bn Orkney link project is connecting the archipelago to the GB electricity transmission network for the ...

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 ...