SHETLAND’S men’s and women’s darts teams celebrated another famous home double over rivals Orkney in the annual inter-county ...

COUNCILLORS on the planning committee will be recommended to give the green light to a contentious substation on the ...

EARLY estimates have suggested that Shetland Islands Council could receive £400,000 from SSE Renewables for road repairs ...

SHETLAND Islands Council and the intrepid Helen Budge and her team faced many challenges to get the new Anderson High School and its Halls of Residence across the start line but having overcome them, ...

TRANSPORT Scotland is gauging interest from companies who may be interested in bidding for the contract to run the Northern ...

THE UK Government is to invest £10 million into SaxaVord Spaceport to help accelerate its capital works programme. The announcement was made by Jeremy Hunt, the UK chancellor, during his budget ...

A “MAJOR milestone” has been reached in plans to install a second subsea HVDC cable between Shetland and the Scottish mainland, according to SSEN. SSEN Transmission has now entered into a ‘capacity ...

A FORMER fishing boat is returning to the water after being taken over by an enthusiast team of skilled shipwrights and sailors who intend to use her to sail around Europe. They are planning to set ...

WHAT was promoted as the UK’s “most productive onshore wind farm” is turning out to be one of the country’s most poorly ...

A MESSAGE in a bottle thought to have been thrown in the sea more than ten years ago has washed up in Yell. The bottle was found in Burravoe in Yell on Monday (1 January) – and it included a brief ...

THE SCENES on the NorthLink ferry from Lerwick to Aberdeen last night (Thursday) have been described by one passenger as “grim” – as children and older people were said to “compete” for sleeping space ...

KITTIWAKE, arctic skua and arctic tern (tirricks) have shown “particularly drastic population crashes” in Shetland, a nature ...