A Sicilian mayor was arrested on graft charges on Thursday. Giovanni Di Giacinto, mayor of Casteldaccia near Palermo, was arrested along with Deputy Mayor Giuseppe Montesanto. Also arrested were a town councillor,...

 Five bodies were found on Sunday during a search and rescue for migrants from a boat that capsized off the coast of the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, the Italian coast guard said. The bodies of three women were found at...

 An appeals court in Caltanissetta on Friday confirmed a first-instance verdict sentencing mafia bosses Salvo Madonia and Vittorio Tutino to life for the 1992 bombing that killed prosecutor Paolo Borsellino and his five...

 Phoenician tombs and an inscribed stela were discovered last month in Motya, western Sicily, during an excavation by the Sapienza University of Rome Expedition. The archaeologists uncovered 400 tombs in total. Out of the...

 Arancini, the Sicilian deep-fried rice balls, have been listed in the revised 2019 edition of the Oxford English Dictionary.Arancini, among 650 new words added to the dictionary, are defined as "rice balls" with "a savoury...

 Located on the southwest coast of Sicily, close to the seaside town of Sciacca, the wealthiest people have converged for the Annual Google Camp. Traditionally held every year at the end of July, the famed Verdura Resort...

 Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana are selling their luxury Sicilian villa - and it could be yours if you have a few million to spare. The 500 square metre property, located on Stromboli Island in Sicily, is being sold for...

  Italy's Mount Etna, Europe's biggest live volcano, erupted overnight with lava flows and explosive burps, vulcanologists said Saturday. A heavy emission of ash into the sky forced the closure of two airports in Sicily's second-biggest city...

 Italian police and FBI agents arrested 19 Mafia suspects in Sicily and New York on Wednesday in a coordinated crackdown that brought to the fore the enduring transatlantic ties between organized crime families in Italy and...

 Two boys were killed when they were ran down by an SUV in the Sicilian town of Vittoria on Thursday. Cousins Alessio D’Antonio, 11, and Simone D’Antonio, 12, were playing outside their home on Thursday evening, when the vehicle...

  Professor Clemente Marconi of New York University on Thursday presented the results and discoveries of the 13th international archaeological dig in the Selinunte Acropolis, conducted by NYU and the University of Milan in collaboration with...

 A former anti-mafia champion, Antonello Montante, was sentenced to 14 years in jail on Friday for a string of offences including corruption. Montante, who has always denied the charges against him, was the national...

  The brother of a former mayor in Sicily was killed by gunshot wounds near Palermo on Wednesday. Antonino Di Liberto, 49, was murdered at Belmonte Mezzagno, about 20 km from the Sicilian capital. His body was found face...

 An MP for the ruling anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S), Piera Aiello, is being probed for making false statements in public acts, police said Wednesday. Aiello, 51, is a member of the Lower House. The probe is...