Councillors in Orkney have voted narrowly in favour of a proposed 15% increase in the islands' council tax. Officials had ...

A £5 levy on cruise ship passengers arriving in Orkney could raise more than £1m a year, councillors have been told. The ...

A reliquary box containing a skull and bones has been confirmed to be from the same time period as the Orkney saint it is ...

It is no strange sight to see icebergs break off of the Antarctic ice cap and drift away, like the gigantic sheet of ice that is currently heading for the island of South Georgia. But climate change ...

John Swinney has expressed concern over “significant” council tax hikes in Scotland after a series of councils confirmed double-digit increases. The First Minister insisted the Scottish Government had ...

Orkney Islands Council has given its support to the idea of a locally-controlled cruise ship tax – estimating that it could ...

Councillors in Orkney have given their unanimous backing to one of three onshore wind farms that the local authority had ...

Councillors in Orkney have proposed to increase Council Tax by 15% to protect services in the future in line with their ...

Orkney and Shet­land lie north of the Scot­tish main­land, not off Scot­land’s north-east coast as wrongly stated in an art­icle on Feb­ru­ary 11.

Orkney-based marine services firm Green Marine UK has announced a seven-figure capital investment in a new Subsea Services ...

Councillors in Orkney have backed a 15% rise in council tax for the next financial year. There was just one vote in ...

A £5 levy on cruise ship passengers arriving in Orkney could raise more than £1m a year, councillors have been told. The Scottish government is exploring giving local councils new powers ...