Guernsey’s men’s and women’s football sides have pulled out of next year’s Island Games competition in Orkney. The decision ...

Orkney Islands Council (OIC) is asking residents for their thoughts on reducing 30mph speed limits in built-up areas around ...

Firefighting crews remain in attendance at the scene of a shed fire in Stromness this evening. Residents in the vicinity of ...

Residents have been evacuated from their homes as firefighters tackle a blaze on Dundas Street in Stromness. Three fire ...

The Kirkwall post office could be under threat of closure after the Post office revealed plans to off load 115 branches.

Orcadian lives lost in conflict were remembered today on Remembrance Sunday. Orkney paused to honour the dead and pay their ...

Kirkwall’s stripped-back bonfire and fireworks display “did not deliver” on hopes to reduce its impact on birdlife, say ...

Internal Orkney Native Wildlife Project (ONWP) papers, released to The Orcadian, suggest that a plan to use “species control ...

Two youngsters had their push bikes stolen from Kirkwall Grammar School, yesterday. The mountain bikes — one black with a ...

A stolen car was abandoned at Inganess Bay after being taken from a property on Tankerness Hall road on Saturday morning. The ...

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The government has said no decision has been made on the fate of 115 Crown Post Office branches including Kirkwall’s. It ...