Councillors in Orkney have voted narrowly in favour of a proposed 15% increase in the islands' council tax. Officials had ...

Councillors in Orkney have proposed to increase Council Tax by 15% to protect services in the future in line with their ...

A reliquary box containing a skull and bones has been confirmed to be from the same time period as the Orkney saint it is ...

A £5 levy on cruise ship passengers arriving in Orkney could raise more than £1m a year, councillors have been told. The ...

Councillors in Orkney have unanimously approved plans for a £50 million six-turbine wind farm at Quanterness, west of ...

A new map of the South Orkney Islands has been released by British Antarctic Survey (BAS) – the first UK published, ...

Orkney Islands Council has given its support to the idea of a locally-controlled cruise ship tax – estimating that it could ...

Councillors in Orkney have given their unanimous backing to one of three onshore wind farms that the local authority had ...

Councillors in Orkney have backed a 15% rise in council tax for the next financial year. There was just one vote in ...

A new map of the South Orkney Islands has been released by British Antarctic Survey (BAS) - the first UK published, ...