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

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

LINDA Gray should be daunted. She has a to-do list that could unfurl and wind its way around the near two acre site at Lea ...

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

SHETLAND’s historic first RNLI lifeboat is looking for a new home – and its owner is keen to see if anyone in the isles would be interested in taking her on. The Lady Jane and Martha Ryland was ...

THE SCOTTISH Government has again confirmed that it will not progress with the hugely controversial proposal to implement highly protected marine areas (HPMAs) across 10 per cent of Scottish waters.

BRAE High School is taking a starring role in a programme giving young people the chance to learn about filmmaking. Brae is one of five secondary schools in Scotland taking part in the curriculum ...

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have spent the last week excavating one of Shetland’s most challenging sites at the Kame of Isbister near North Roe. The Kame is a rocky headland 38 metres high only accessible by ropes ...

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

THE DEVELOPER behind plans for a consented wind farm in Yell is proposing to increase the height of the turbines to boost the amount of electricity it could generate. Peel Energy has begun the formal ...

Increasing the speed of building new affordable homes across Shetland will be a difficult task according to the chief executive of Hjaltland Housing Association (HHA). Bryan Leask was speaking after ...

A FLOTILLA of five historic vessels will arrive in Shetland early next month to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World ...