Heavy rainfall has led to widespread disruption on roads across Orkney. Part of the Grainshore Road on the outskirts of ...

Orkney Islands Council has secured a £62.1m loan from the National Wealth Fund to build its six-turbine Quanterness wind farm ...

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 ...

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

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 is expected to begin in 2027 after Orkney Islands Council was awarded £62 ...

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 continues to be at the center of the United Kingdom’s renewable energy plans, with the Scottish archipelago unveiling the ReFLEX (Responsive Flexibility) Orkney project earlier this week.

Orkney’s Community Wind Farm Project has taken a further step forward with energy regulator Ofgem’s approval of a new electricity transmission link. The approval follows Ofgem’s public consultation on ...

STORY: Local politicians on Britain's Orkney Islands say they are considering what they're calling "alternative forms of governance" -- including potentially leaving the UK and becoming part of Norway ...

Turkish tug boat builder Sanmar Shipyards said that it has launched Odin of Scapa, first of the Orkney Islands Council (OIC) two new tugs, at its shipyard at Altinova in Turkey."The launch was on ...

Up in the remote northeast of Scotland, residents of the Orkney Islands use small island-hopping aircraft to commute around the archipelago. The longest flight in the area is 15 minutes, traveling 33 ...

A man who forced the closure of Orkney's Kirkwall Airport after telling a staff member "airplane goes boom" has been jailed ...