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 ...

A study by the University of Aberdeen, based on bone artifacts from the Orkney site, reveals a complex and prolonged cultural transition, dismissing the theory of a violent and abrupt ethnic ...

The carved head is made of red sandstone. University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute An intricately carved head made of red sandstone has been found on one of Scotland’s Orkney ...

An “extraordinary discovery” has been made at one of Orkney’s most stunning Neolithic sites, which could completely rewrite ...

Read the issue » The Stones of Stenness are part of one of Europe’s richest archeological landscapes—the legacy of a ...

The organ in St Magnus Cathedral has provided the musical accompaniment to lives in Orkney for the last century. Now plans are under way to have the 100-year-old instrument restored at a cost of £500, ...

The 900-odd islands, islets and skerries amassed off the western and northern coasts of mainland Scotland are an eclectic bunch. In the north, the North Sea archipelagos of Shetland and Orkney have ...

Read full article: Clay County Schools announces staff changes as district faces potential $10M budget shortfall for next year Three left lanes of Interstate 95 North at Airport Road were closed ...