Rome revokes Special Economic Zone authorisation for the Tavolara Bay glamping development at Cala Finanza, two days after a municipal council U-turn and a mass protest on the beach.
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Villa Certosa, the extravagant Costa Smeralda estate that served as the late prime minister’s playground for politicians, billionaires and Bunga Bunga parties, has found a buyer three years after Berlusconi’s death. The Qatari Al Thani royal family has made the winning bid.
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A Nissan Qashqai, whose driver allegedly ran a stop sign, struck a school bus head-on in Mazara del Vallo. The bus overturned, resulting in two children to hospital in Palermo by helicopter.
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Delta Air Lines’s new JFK–Olbia service, chosen by a public vote, marks a historic shift in transatlantic access to one of the Mediterranean’s most coveted destinations.
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Palermo has claimed its place in the record books with the creation of a giant arancina weighing 62.3 kilograms. Unveiled last Sunday on Palermo’s Mondello beach, it surpasses a previous record set in Messina in 2023.
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Elvira Amata, Sicily’s regional tourism councillor and a member of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party, has been ordered to stand trial on corruption charges. She is the latest in a series of judicial difficulties to beset the right-wing coalition’s Sicilian operation.
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The archaeological landscape known as the Valley of the Temples, located near Agrigento on the southern coast of Sicily, is one of the most important surviving testimonies of ancient Greek civilisation outside Greece. Spread across a ridge overlooking the Mediterranean, the site contains some of the best-preserved Doric temples in the world and offers a […]
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Benedetto “Nitto” Santapaola, one of the most powerful figures in the Sicilian mafia during the late 20th century, has died at the age of 87 after more than three decades behind bars.
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Sicilian authorities have revoked a 116-year-old management concession for Mondello Beach after concerns emerged about links to organised crime, regional officials announced.
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The Italian cabinet has approved more than €1.25 billion to address the damage caused by Cyclone Harry across southern Italy, Civil Protection Minister Nello Musumeci said on Wednesday.
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