Marine archeologists have identified a British warship with ties to Canada, more than a year after it was first discovered as ...

Whale oil was an essential fuel of the Industrial Revolution, used to lubricate machinery, soften fabric and light city ...

The identity of a 1700s vessel shipwrecked in Orkney has been uncovered by archaeologists. The ship discovered on the island ...

Michael Ross' lawyer hopes The Orkney Assassin documentary will lead to 'new evidence' The Orkney Assassin: Murder In The Isles examines the murder of 26-year-old Shamsuddin Mahmood who was killed ...

The mother of Michael Ross, the man incarcerated for the 1994 slaying of a Bangladeshi waiter in Orkney, crumbled into tears during a recent documentary about the crime, reports the Scottish Daily ...

How to eat and drink your way around Orkney Saoirse Ronan is turning ‘The Outrun’ by Orcadian nature memoirist Amy Liptrot into a film. But the Scottish island is also carving out a place on ...

Orkney - and Shetland - have their slightly different back stories to the rest of the country. And history, while often misunderstood and routinely misreported, is not irrelevant.

Orkney is mulling whether to it needs to put in place emergency evacuation planning for its outer isles as it grapples with Scotland’s worst ferry crisis. Councillors on the archipelago have ...

Orkney councillors have voted to investigate alternative methods of governance amid deep frustrations over funding and opportunities. Council leader James Stockan said the islands had been "held ...