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Greece announced that it will offer cash assistance to the families in the region of Elassona whose properties were damaged by the earthquake.

A new earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale shook central Greece at 20:38 on Thursday. The epicenter was near the town of Elassona.

Much of Greece is at a "very high" risk of wildfires on Wednesday, according to an announcement by government officials. Authorities stated that much of the mainland, including the regions of Attica, Evia, central Greece, and the Peloponnese are at...

  A large fire broke out on Wednesday afternoon near the ancient archaeological site of Delphi in central Greece. A total of 39 fire fighters with 13 vehicles, two groups of firefighters who are on foot, six aircraft and one firefighting...

When the Rio-Antirrio Bridge was opened on August 7, 2004, one week before the opening of the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, it was predicted that this new connection would change the economic landscape in Greece. Fifteen years later, one...

Greece's Ministry of Culture issued a statement on Friday afternoon, regarding recent discoveries in a neolithic settlement that is located in Phthiotis region and dates back to 6,000 - 5,800 BC. The settlement, known to archaeologists as Koutroulou Magoula, from...

A rather ...peculiar spectacle was viewed by people in the Greek city of Lamia on Friday morning, when a bull on the lam charged through city streets, reaching the city center of the Central Greece municipality. Amazed onlookers who saw the...

A 4.7 magnitude earthquake hit the region of Aetolia-Acarnania in central Greece on Saturday evening at 18:08. According to the Geodynamic Institute of the National Observatory of Athens, the tremor’s epicenter was 28 kilometers northwest of Agrinio, near Amfilochia, with a...

A magnitude 5.3 on the Richter scale earthquake hit southwest of Itea in Central Greece at 12:46 PM local time (10:46 UTC) on Saturday. The epicenter was 15 kilometers (9 miles) southwest of the town of Itea in Sterea Ellada...

On Friday the two villages of Styrfaka and Lygaria near Lamia in Central Greece, experienced flash flooding when heavy rains with a long duration in the area caused the Spercheios river to overflow. Over the last two weeks the area...