THE Church of Scotland’s large disposal of property in Shetland is reaching its end, after a number of kirk sales to both ...

THE DEADLINES for two funding opportunities from Shetland Arts is fast approaching. The Creative Shetland Commissioning Fund ...

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 ...

THE CHIEF executive of the UK Space Agency has expressed his confidence that SaxaVord could well be the UK spaceport that hosts the first European launch into polar orbit. But while on a visit to ...

SHETLAND’s new police chief is settling into his job in Lerwick – with his overarching priority being to keep people safe. Chief inspector Chris Sewell took up the area commander post in September ...

MORE details have emerged about the environmental advisory group which has been set up to oversee the construction of the planned Viking Energy wind farm. Among those confirmed to sit on the group ...

POLICE have been called to a two-car crash on the B9073 near the Black Gaet junction, south of Lerwick. Emergency services were alerted to the collision at just after 5pm on Thursday. Officers are ...

WITH a large 15MW tidal array now on the horizon for Yell Sound, tidal stream energy appears to be finally on the brink of breaking into the electricity generation mainstream and becoming a serious ...

THE PRINCIPAL of UHI Shetland has called for a different funding model for island colleges amid a financial crisis that will lead to the newly formed college losing a substantial number of staff.

For the first few seconds everything and everyone in the area is bathed in an intense red glow – a true ‘hairs on the back of ...

A WATERY mishap at the Scalloway Fire Festival and fluffy slippers and sweet sherry were fertile comedic grounds for convener ...

SHETLANDERS have overwhelmingly Scottish DNA according to a major research project; one of whose contributors is well-known Orkney geneticist Professor Jim Wilson. While Shetland is famed for its ...