Highland council have voted to raise no objections to plans for a 125-turbine wind farm off the north Caithness coast. The West of Orkney Wind Farm site is 31 miles (50km) north west of Thurso and ...

The developer has identified a port at Scrabster ... mainland's electricity grid would be constructed on the Highland coast. Orkney Islands Council was asked for its views as a statutory consultee ...

The shipwreck of an old whaling ship called the Tioga is shown on the map in Port Jebsen, where it was wrecked in 1913. The map of the whole South Orkney Island group shows a similar story to the ...

Seventy-seven long-finned pilot whales washed ashore on Thursday on Sanday island, a part of the Orkney archipelago off Scotland. Sixty-five of them were already dead, the British Divers Marine ...