Two Orkney mums, who spent months away from home as their premature babies fought to survive, hope a new fundraising and ...

Over £1,000 has been spent on making tweed jackets for harbours staff at Orkney Islands Council (OIC), it has emerged this ...

Orkney’s pubwatch scheme has come an end — but could a new awards-based system encourage licensees to keep standards high?

Arrangements were finalised on Tuesday for a fatal accident inquiry into the death of a West African creel fisherman off ...

Are fixed links the way forward for Scotland’s islands? This is the subject of an inquiry that has just been launched by the ...

The windscreen of a school bus was damaged this Friday as it crossed the Churchill Barriers. Stagecoach has confirmed that ...

MV Pentalina is undergoing repair work this Sunday morning, after sustaining damage in an incident on Saturday night. A welder is on site at St Margaret’s Hope pier to repair damage to the port side ...

Orkney Crab has pooh-poohed the possibility that it is the source of offensive odours reported in Stromness this week — ...

Damage to the Eday pier has prompted Orkney Islands Council (OIC) to put a weight restriction in place, this Friday. A ...

Orkney Islands Council has closed the junction between the Grainshore Road junction with the A965 due to flooding. Traffic ...

Strong winds look set to bring travel disruption to Orkney, this weekend, with gusts of up to 57mph forecast. Friday’s ...

A pioneering wave energy device, bought by Orkney Islands Council (OIC) for £1, has been “successfully disposed of” by the ...