The Latest Breaking News from Shetland

ORKNEY was the local authority area that voted against independence by the biggest margin at the 2014 referendum, while Shetland produced the…

An engrossing memoir of life on Shetland; a varied set of short stories about all-American antiheroes; and how medieval tourists got their kicks

Historical records may prove link between climate fluctuation in Pacific and atmospheric electric field over 5,000 miles away

Built in 1913 as a naval radio station, the Shetland Isles’ Met Office at Lerwick provides the temperature reading you see on the top right-hand corner of the UK weather map. The site became part of the Met Office network in 1921 and began regular meteorological and magnetic recording, which…

A SPACEPORT in Shetland is counting down to the UK’s first ever orbital rocket launch after being declared officially open at a ribbon-cutting…

LABOUR have “given up” on winning many seats across Scotland, the SNP have said after activists were told to travel literally hundreds of…

THE First Minister was forced to call off a visit to Shetland on Friday after his plane was unable to land on the island due to fog.

Shetland and Rebus share a lot in common, so I dived in...

This BBC Scottish crime series gives a lot, very quietly. A decade late, I have happily jumped on the bandwagon/slow-moving local ferry