Attica Regional Governor Nikos Hardalias visited the historic central Athens neighborhood of Mets on Wednesday to check on the progress of a project upgrading its indoor sports arena.
A 78-year-old man died on Wednesday after succumbing to injuries sustained in a fall into a water well at his home in Almiros, southwest of Volos, in eastern mainland Greece.
Archimandrite Melchisedek Ambelikakis, parish priest of Sternes on Crete, has publicly responded to media reports linking him to a high-profile criminal investigation involving the so-called Crete mafia, stressing that he was not involved in any illegal activity.
Greece has endured one of its harshest wildfire seasons in recent memory, with 47,393 hectares burned between January and August 2025, according to the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS) and analysis by the National Observatory of Athens/meteo.gr.
Police clashed with tourists early Wednesday outside a Mykonos burger restaurant in an incident captured on video.
Greek Deputy Prime Minister Kostis Hatzidakis defended the Greece-Cyprus electricity interconnection after Cyprus’ finance minister called the project “unsustainable.”
A Piraeus Bank study estimates the shortage of the residential real estate market at 180,000 housing units.
The Greek-American community has never, perhaps, been as influential as it was in 1988. One of its own, Governor Michael Dukakis, was running for president, and at his side, acting as a right-hand man, was another Greek American, 36-year-old Nick Mitropoulos.
Members of the so-called Crete mafia allegedly used the Viber messaging app to buy and sell weapons, police investigations revealed.
A 27-year-old man has reportedly confessed to carrying out a murder on the orders of a jailed mobster last month for a 15,000 euro payout. The shooting took place on August 18 in downtown Athens’ Agios Panteleimonas district and the victim was a man aged 47.