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 ...

The curlew population in the Orkney archipelago of Scotland is making a comeback thanks to efforts at controlling an invasive predator species.

The Princess Royal will officially open the 20th International Island Games in Orkney this summer. Princess Anne will attend ...

The picture was similar to that across Scotland, where prices increased by 0.4%. The rise in the Orkney Islands contributes to the longer-term trend in the area, which has seen pr ...

And while they did leave us a lot of monuments that took, well, monumental effort to build—think Stonehenge or the stone circles of Orkney—the ... s North Uist island realized they were ...