President Sergio Mattarella on Monday visited Niscemi, the Sicilian town hit by a dramatic landslide last month. The head of State went on a tour to assess the damage, escorted by Mayor Massimiliano Conti and Civil Protection Department...
A man in Catania, Sicily, trained his dog to dump bags of rubbish by the roadside in an attempt to evade surveillance cameras installed to combat fly-tipping, municipal police have said. The episode was detailed in a post on...
Premier Giorgia Meloni on Monday returned to Niscemi, the Sicilian town hit by a dramatic landslide last month, and other parts of the region hit by Cyclone Harry, which also wreaked havoc in Calabria and Sardinia, sources said...
“The entire hill is collapsing onto the Gela plain. We conducted an initial inspection with the scientific component of the Civil Protection Department’s competence...
A crime without truth. Forty-six years without knowing who killed Piersanti Mattarella. It was 6 January 1980 when the President of the Sicilian Region, elder brother of Head of State Sergio Mattarella, was assassinated in...
On December 26, 1965, in Alcamo, Sicily, violence tried to disguise itself as destiny. But it encountered an unexpected obstacle: a seventeen-year-old girl who said no. Sixty years later, the story of Franca Viola remains one of...
On redoute une nouvelle tragédie en Méditerranée centrale. Une embarcation transportant environ 116 à 117 personnes, partie de Libye, aurait fait...
He wanted to come to Europe to play football. He was twenty years old, with a ball in his mind and his eyes, and war behind him. But instead, Alaa Faraj Abdelkarim Hamad became,...
Western Sicily is winning over Europe. More than sixty buyers, tour operators, and journalists took part in the meetings organized by the Western Sicily Tourism District on...
An extensive criminal network involved in clandestine excavations, forgery, and the illegal trafficking of archaeological artifacts—also with international connections—has been dismantled in Operation...
A legal and accounting obstacle, deemed “unlawful” by the judiciary, is weighing on the Messina Strait Bridge project. In the reasoning published today, the Italian...
Sicily continues to grow — yes — but it is a slow growth.The latest Bank of Italy report on the Sicilian economy is a mid‑year update, produced in collaboration with...
Arrest of former Sicilian governor Cuffaro requested
Palermo prosecutors on Tuesday requested that former Sicilian Governor Salvatore Cuffaro be put under house arrested along with 17 other people for allegedly involvement in...
A new memorial artwork by artist Massimiliano Errera has been unveiled in Piazza Vittorio Veneto, Trapani, to commemorate the Pizzolungo massacre.After years of neglect, the armored Fiat 132 used by Judge Carlo Palermo and...
Italy’s Court of Auditors on Wednesday rejected the government’s plan to build a long-debated bridge from mainland Italy to Sicily, dealing a body blow to one of Rome’s most ambitious infrastructure projects.The ruling temporarily...
