Kirkwall’s Phoenix Cinema has rolled out the red carpet this evening for the much-anticipated Orkney premiere of The Outrun.

An Orkney triathlete is preparing to compete at the very pinnacle of her sport. Claire Rendall, from Kirkwall, is in Nice, ...

Colin Cadden committed to surveying all the Cairngorms routes in a new guide to Scotland’s rights of way. John Davidson spoke ...

Scotland’s online language wars have flared up again as the SNP introduces a bill to make Scots and Gaelic ‘official’. As passions run ...

Emergency services attended the scene early on Saturday morning and two men were taken to hospital for treatment.

Entries were being sought for the “North’s own beauty competition” which was to be run by the Harmsworth Park Improvements ...

It is astonishing how quickly the new Government has descended into sleaze – something Labour roundly condemned while in ...

VDOT has updated its schedules for road construction and maintenance in the Staunton District and Culpeper District for the week of Sept. 23-27.

Saoirse Ronan and Jack Lowden, who married in a secret ceremony in August, have worked together on the actress' new film The ...

A Norse saga relates the tale of a group of Vikings forced to shelter for three nights in Maeshowe burial chamber in Orkney. During this time the Norse carved runes into the walls. From the runes, ...

Why was the Brough of Birsay, on the north west coast of the mainland of Orkney, Scotland, chosen as a settlement by the Norse? It was in a very defensible position surrounded almost entirely by sea ...