Thessaloniki

Temperatures in Greece and many parts of Europe will soar over the weekend as the atmospheric instability gradually subsides, the METEO weather service of the National Observatory of Athens announced on Friday. Extremely hot air masses are expected to spread...

Greek chef Akis Petretzkis broke a Guinness World Record Thursday in Thessaloniki when he cooked up 3,378 burgers in the space of a single hour. Petretzkis and his team assembled the 3,378 burgers, the last stop of the Coca-Cola &...

Two cars belonging to Turkish nationals, most likely diplomats, were set on fire in Thessaloniki, in Macedonia, Greece, in the early hours of Monday. The first car was parked on Alexander the Great Avenue, near the famous sea promenade of the...

Sixty-eight small bronze memorial plaques were placed at the entrance of the First High School for Boys in Thessaloniki last week, in the final act of commemoration of 149 young victims of the Nazis. The name, date of birth...

The hilltop forest of Thessaloniki, known as Seich Sou, is being systematically attacked by a species of beetle, with experts saying that almost ten percent of the pine trees have already been destroyed. "Tomicus piniperda," the common pine bark beetle,...

The candidate representing the New Democracy Party, Nikos Tahiaos, recorded a clear lead in the race for Thessaloniki's Mayoral office on Sunday election. With almost 60 percent of the votes counted, Tahiaos and his ''Thessaloniki Responsibly'' team have received 22.5 percent...

Sitting governor Apostolos Tzitzikostas won the race for Greece's second largest region, Central Macedonia, from the first round, according to official results published on Sunday night. With almost 75 percent of the votes counted, New Democracy-backed Tzitzikostas and his ''Solidarity:...

The newly-arrived first carriages, which will be part of the long-awaited Thessaloniki metro train, became targets for vandals on Sunday. The carriages, kept in a Thessaloniki city depot, were spray painted with graffiti and slogans, despite the fact that they...

Hundreds of Pontic Greeks gathered in central Thessaloniki on Wednesday to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the genocide perpetrated by the Turks upon their ancestors. The crowd formed a human chain with the letter “G”, for Genocide, and later formed the...

Five months since Greek premier Alexis Tsipras unveiled the Thessaloniki Metro, the four carriages which will make up the first train arrived on Wednesday. "Today is a historic day for Thessaloniki and also a vindication for those of us that...