Italy's new right-wing government revived on Tuesday moribund plans to connect the island of Sicily to the mainland with a giant bridge - one of the most ambitious engineering projects ever conceived. The bridge has been in the planning...
Police on Thursday arrested 18 people, 11 Tunisian nationals and seven Italians, to break up a human trafficking ring that operated from Sicily. The traffickers allegedly regularly took off from the port of Gela or from...
A court in Sicily on Tuesday convicted 91 defendants of roles in a organized crime scheme that bilked the European Union of some 5 million euros (dollars) in subsidies for grazing land on the Mediterranean island. The...
As she travels the Mediterranean, journalist Sineb El Masrar visits Sicily, Italy’s largest island. She meets citrus farmers and puppeteers, and journeys from active volcano Mount Etna to the regional capital, Palermo, a hub for marine...
Over the last ten years the Campobello di Mazara migrant camp in the west of Sicily has become an "unsanitary no man's land". Regional authorities say it is so dangerous, even the police don't go there....
Barbara Mirabella, a candidate for the Regionals in Sicily for FdI, and former municipal councilor for Culture in the council of Salvo Pogliese was arrested for corruption...
The far-right Italian party Brothers of Italy, tipped to win Sunday's election, has suspended one of its candidates for praising Adolf Hitler on social media. In a 2014 Facebook post, Calogero Pisano, a party co-ordinator...
Six Syrian refugees, including three children, were found dead on a migrant boat that arrived on Monday in the Sicilian port of Pozzallo, the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) said. "They died of thirst, hunger...
The populist 5-Star Movement (M5S) on Monday pulled out of an alliance with the centre-left Democratic Party (PD) to run together at next month's regional elections in Sicily. The decision reflects the breakdown of the alliance at a national...
Three weekends (August 20-21, August 27-28, September 3-4) will celebrate the 'roads of treasures' across 37 villages, including 16 in the area around Palermo, in Sicily,...
A woman in Sicily has been arrested after admitting killing her four-year-old daughter, having initially claimed the child was taken by hooded kidnappers for a ransom. The body of Elena Del Pozzo was found in a field close...
Sicily is, of course, Italy’s largest island. A sun-drenched Mediterranean land steeped in history, culture and unique local traditions. This is a place where Baroque architecture, art and culture intertwine with an abundance of outstanding...
Maria Falcone, sister of anti-Mafia magistrate Giovanni who was killed by a Cosa Nostra bomb 30 years ago Monday, said she would toast with Italian justice and interior ministers when fugitive superboss Matteo Messina...
Thirty years after Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino were murdered on the order of mob boss Salvatore “Toto” Riina (1930-2017), virtually every corner of the Sicilian capital holds reminders of the judges...
The Sicilian regional government on Friday voted to permanently restore to Greece a fragment of the Parthenon that had been loaned to Athens in exchange for an ancient Greek statue of Athena which had come to a Palermo museum for four...
