The Orkney Islands had one of the highest rates of workless household in Great Britain last year, new figures suggest.

Whale oil was an essential fuel of the Industrial Revolution, used to lubricate machinery, soften fabric and light city ...

Hundreds of people in Orkney and Shetland have experienced disruption to their internet and phone services because of damage ...

The average length of time that people in Scotland can expect to live in good health has fallen to a near ten-year low, according to new figures. A report by the National Records of Scotland (NRS) has ...

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 ...

Scotland's Orkney Islands: Hop the ferry to see Celtic ruins, sites from World War I, II Rick Steves Special to USA TODAY 0:00 ...

Shop owner accidentally orders 720 chocolate Easter eggs for Scottish island with 500 people London — It was a pretty routine order for Dan ap Dafydd. The shopkeeper on Scotland's remote Orkney ...

The problems caused by a broken undersea cable in Orkney and Shetland are a warning for the UK, particularly amid reports of ...

Scotland is ringed on the west by the Hebrides Islands. We'll venture from Oban to Iona and Staffa; then, Skye; and then, in the far north, sail to the Orkney Islands.

Hundreds of people in Orkney and Shetland have had their internet and phone services disrupted because of damage to a subsea ...

Perched just an hour’s ferry ride north of the Scottish mainland, the Orkney Islands are remote, historic and — for the right traveler — well worth the effort.

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.