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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

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.

Skara Brae is a Neolithic village located on the Bay of Skaill, on the west coast of Mainland, Orkney Islands in Scotland. Inhabited between 3180 BCE and 2500 BCE, it flourished before the ...

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

With most of the hotels and B&Bs full, some people are turning to lodging in people's houses or camping. Others are staying in self-catering accommodation, hostels or dormitories set up in schools.

Britain's Orkney Islands, an archipelago about 10 miles off the north coast of Scotland, is considering "alternative forms of governance" which could include becoming part of Norway, its council ...

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.