The Galloway Forest Park was declared the UK's first Dark Sky Park on 16 November 2009. But what exactly does that mean? And, over the intervening years, what difference - if any - has it made?

The Scottish Dark Sky Observatory will reopen on the banks of the Clatteringshaws Loch in Galloway Forest Park in late 2026. The site, within Scotland’s only “gold tier” dark sky park ...

A new £1.5 million observatory is set to be developed in the Galloway Forest Park. The Scottish Dark Sky Observatory (SDSO) plan to transform the old visitor centre on the banks of Clatteringshaws.

On November 2, 1944, Galloway and the 28th were ordered into the Hurtgen Forest, just south of the German city of Aachen. The two divisions that had fought in the forest in October had lost 4500 ...

The plan to give Galloway in Scotland special status has sparked a backlash from ‘livid’ residents and farmers - but others ...

Forestry and Land Scotland hopes the facility in Mabie Forest in Dumfries and Galloway will be back open ... which also affects the lower part of the car park, is part of the organisation ...

A car and its two occupants had to be towed to safety after ending up stuck in a forest bog in Galloway. The incident happened shortly after 22:00 on Tuesday at the back of Cairnsmore of Fleet.