Authorities are seeking the public’s help in finding individuals who desecrated ancient, protected tribal rock carvings near Bishop, California. The petroglyphs at Volcanic Tableland were ...

The West of Orkney Windfarm site is 31 miles (50km) north west of Thurso and about 18 miles (30km) off the west of Orkney. The Scottish government, which will have the final say on an application ...

Councillors in Orkney are poised to vote through a 15% rise in council tax. It would be the biggest increase in the levy in Scotland, as councils across the country opt for the largest rises in ...

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When it was made: These masks date to at least the 16th century; the one photographed above dates to 1885. Yup'ik masks vary dramatically in size and shape, anthropologist Dorothy Jean Ray wrote ...

Councillors in Orkney have backed a 15% increase in council tax. The 15% rise was passed by 15 votes to six at a meeting of the full Orkney Islands Council, defeating an amendment for a lower rise ...

The village now attracts more than 100,000 people a year – not bad for the remote Orkney Islands – who can see original ... enclosures around T-shaped pillars, decorated with carvings of animals and ...

Its presence suggests that dogs were symbolically significant in Neolithic Orkney. It is said that the cairn itself is proof that ancient people living in the area believed in the afterlife.

Winter’s last full moon is set to light up the skies across Britain tonight, with the rise of February’s snow moon. Stargazers will also be able to glimpse the bright star Regulus near tonight’s full ...

The West of Orkney Windfarm is 31 miles north west of Thurso and will have 125 turbines. Council leader Heather Woodbridge says the rise was about finding the right balance. The Scottish ...