A man is facing the New Year behind bars after struggling with police while on bail.

Shetland is bracing itself for further bad weather after hurricane winds of up to 100mph battered the isles on Christmas Day leaving thousands of homes without power.

High earnings and employment, low levels of crime, good education, affordable housing and above average life expectancy. All the indices with which Shetland residents are familiar have been totted up in an annual survey which this year suggests we enjoy the highest quality of life in Scotland. …

The two new tugs at Sullom Voe have been removed from service indefinitely after a potentially disastrous collision between the Solan and the oil tanker Loch Rannoch on Tuesday night.

Homes and businesses in Lerwick will be able to gain access to faster broadband – up to 20 megabits per second – by next summer, according to BT.

A man was treated for smoke inhalation after a fire at the Haa of Sand this morning. Firefighters were called to a blaze in an upper floor of the three-storey listed building just before 9am.

An offer by the Scottish government to take over inter-island ferry services run by Scottish councils is unlikely to find favour in Shetland, according to the chairman of the local transport agency ZetTrans.

Shetland Islands Council may be asked for a cash contribution towards chartering the CalMac ferry Hebridean Isles for the Pentland Firth route for part of the first three months of next year. It would avoid the Shetland-Aberdeen service being reduced to a single passenger ship service during NorthLink’s nine-week drydocking period.

The council has decided to proceed with a £4.6 million extension to Shetland College to secure almost £2 million in European funding.

The most popular babies’ names in Shetland this year were Connor and Zander for boys and Eva and Lily for girls, according to the Register General for Scotland in data released this week.