The organ in St Magnus Cathedral has provided the musical accompaniment to lives in Orkney for the last century. Now plans ...

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.

FILE - Visitors look at the 5,000 year-old remains of Skara Brae village in the Scottish Orkney Islands, July 19, 2005, which was revealed by a huge storm in 1850. Sick of being ignored by far-away ...

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 ...

On 2 June 1994, Shamsuddin Mahmood, 26, was killed by a single shot as he served customers in an Indian restaurant in Orkney.

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 ...

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 ...

Archaeologists are set to resume digging at a prominent Neolithic site in Orkney after making an extraordinary' discovery ...

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

Orkney, Scotland Orkney, an archipelago of some 70 islands—20 of them inhabited—lies 10 miles north of the northern tip of Scotland. I first visited the islands when I was 11, on a school trip. The ...

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 ...