The Island Games kicked off in Kirkwall on Friday night, with 24 teams parading through the streets of the town.

Excitement is building in Orkney as the final countdown begins to the Island Games. Athletes from across the world are in ...

More than 250 athletes from Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney and Sark have travelled to Orkney to compete in the 20th Island Games.

The Orkney I-Port operation was launched by Royal Mail and drone firm Skyports last year. A primary school on Orkney is starting its new P1 class with and intake of only boys. Stromness Primary ...

Typically, ships sail anticlockwise, circumnavigating north along the east coast to the Orkney or Shetland Islands, cruising across the top ... Bantry Bay and Galway to the port roster. Most Britain ...

The captain of a women's football team initially left out of the 2025 Island Games has said the squad is "determined" to bring home the gold medal after a late call-up for the event.

Right-wing commentator Katie Hopkins is already planning another promotional trip to the island, a week after finishing one.

Since the first commercially viable drones entered the scene around 2013, drone deliveries have been perceived as one of the ...

A major offshore wind farm that will connect to the electricity grid in Caithness has gained consent to develop up to 125 turbines off the north coast ...

Orkney Islands Council has accepted it must remain part of the UK - after spending two years exploring opportunities for greater autonomy. Officials looked into various models for "alternative ...

Mapping the spatial distribution of penguin encounters showed that they were widespread across the South Orkney Islands shelf (Fig. 3 B). A large underwater canyon north and northwest of Coronation ...

The Stones of Stenness have been standing upright since neolithic times, despite Orkney’s wind. Angela Antle. I met my first wind turbine on the Orkney Islands. This is it, I thought: the future!