Inhabited more than 5,000 years ago, the Neolithic town of Skara Brae flourished on Mainland, the largest island in the Orkney archipelago. Strong storms in 1850 led to its discovery, revealing ...

Baillies se boogskuts het besonders goed by die afgelope Orkney Centreshot Kompetisie presteer. Die seuns en dogters van ...

HARTENBOS NUUS - 100 jaar gelede, op 8 Mei, 1925, is Afrikaans as ’n amptelike Suid-Afrikaanse taal erken. Laerskool Hartenbos het op Donderdag, 8 Mei, dié geleentheid met ’n spesiale dag gevier. Die ...

The UK's first AI-powered Viking character has been created by curators at the Orkney Museum as part of a new exhibition. Orkney was one of the first places the Vikings arrived in when they left ...

Two trucks collided on the N4 Wonderfontein early this morning, with one of the trucks catching fire. The incident was reported at 07:00 on the MP Riots and Traffic group, and took place between ...

Little wonder, then, that when World War II finally came to an end, the celebrations in Orkney went on long into the night. Just as the archipelago played a crucial role during the first world war ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. THE story of a dog and his owner making their way back to their childhood home on Orkney is among the four Scottish representatives shortlisted ...

Islanders in Papa Westray at the unveiling of the bronze Great Auk statue A bronze statue has been unveiled as a memorial to the last Great Auk killed on the Orkney island of Papa Westray.

A Welsh civil engineering firm is set to start work on a multimillion-pound multi-purpose port in Orkney that is earmarked as a key renewable energy hub. Jones Bros Civil Engineering UK is teaming up ...

A bronze statue has been unveiled as a memorial to the last Great Auk killed on the Orkney island of Papa Westray. It is an exact copy of the last of the giant seabirds that lived on the island in ...

Eurasian Curlew appears to be bouncing back in Orkney following the removal of Stoats from the archipelago. The first Orkney wader-population survey since a project began in 2019 to remove the ...