Sicily’s regional government is offering to subsidise holidays on the island for both domestic and international visitors in an effort to kickstart tourism after the...

 - Online platforms and smartphone apps are giving people at home on lockdown during the coronavirus emergency an exceptional possibility to visit many of Sicily's cultural...

 "Ordinary" movements of people to and from Sicily on ferries and road and rail transport have been suspended to curb the spread of the coronavirus from the north to the south, the transport ministry said...

 Several Sicilian regional government officials and businessmen were arrested Wednesday in a major graft probe. Palermo finance police executed 24 warrants including four in jail custody, 12 under house arrest and eight stay orders. The...

 Italian senators voted on Wednesday to lift immunity for far-right leader Matteo Salvini, opening the way for a potentially career-ending trial over accusations that he illegally detained migrants at sea last year. The...

  The Valley of the Temples in Agrigento and the Ancient Theater of Taormina are among Italy's most-visited sites, above Turin's Egyptian Museum and Venaria Reale, the Reggia of Caserta, Hadrian's Villa and Villa D'Este in...

 Medical cannabis will now be available free of charge in the Sicily region, according to a decree signed today by Sicilian health chief Ruggero Razza. The cost of prescriptions, available to patients suffering from chronic pain, cerebral...

 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...