Signs of Orkney vole activity are up 200 on 2019, while threatened ground-nesting birds are doing better, an RSPB report says.

Someone did know, but they didn’t like what he had to tell them. John Rae was an Orkney man, born in 1813. He graduated in medicine from Edinburgh University and made for the Arctic. He joined ...

How to spend one day in Orkney, when you're taking the ferry from the Scottish mainland, and only have a few hours to spare ...

Parade members stood firm despite torrential downpours at yesterday’s Remembrance Sunday event at Thurso’s war memorial.

It was clearly on form today. I managed to take some incredibly grainy photos – true 'Powershot classics' – but they showed the bird clearly enough. Now acutely aware that there was in fact an ...

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A coordinated stoat cull on the Scottish islands is proving successful – and conservationists aren't slowing down ...

Former Scotsman columnist Christine Muir’s descriptions of life on Orkney were written about 40 to 50 years ago, but her words still enchant today “All we have is every day,” the designer ...

A critically-injured man was airlifted to hospital after being assaulted in Orkney. The incident happened on Burnmouth Road in Kirkwall on Tuesday night. Police Scotland said the 38-year-old man ...

Police were called to the scene on Burnmouth Road in Kirkwall on 15 October A man has appeared in court charged with the attempted murder of a man and an assault on a woman in Orkney. The incident ...

Conservation scientists monitoring the wildlife on Orkney are reporting that there are significant increases in successful ...