THE TWENTY three athletes headed to Orkney to represent Shetland at this summer’s Island Games have been revealed. More than ...

FERRY and flight capacity issues have been partly blamed for a rise in unauthorised school absences. Councillors heard on ...

SHETLAND Islands Council’s energy efficiency team has been awarded £200,000 via Shetland Community Benefit Fund (SCBF) for ...

LERWICK jarl Calum Grains performed one of his climactic duties as chief of the town’s fire festival – handing over the squad ...

LERWICK’S Gilbertson Park is set to become the home of Shetland rugby from now until the end of the season. The lines have ...

A FIVE per cent council tax rise in Shetland has been proposed. Councillors will have the final say at a meeting later this month. It has also been proposed that there should be a seven per cent rise ...

FIRE festival fever has reached Unst as the Uyeasound Up Helly Aa gets underway. This year’s guizer jarl is Duncan Scott, who has dipped into his knowledge of Gaelic for the rather self-deprecating ...

Meanwhile a Bristow representative says it was a ‘difficult decision’ for the company to end the festive flight ...

Carol Jamieson’s latest guest in her occasional Poets’ Corner feature is Christian Tait who was born and brought up in ...

NHS Shetland is applying for planning permission to change the use of the former St Olaf Street dentists in Lerwick in a bid to make the property more attractive to buyers. The change of use ...

IT HAS put smiles on the faces of many over the recent years, but the coastguard helicopter’s annual festive fly-over across Shetland – complete with a waving Santa and an elf – looks like it has come ...