Thessaloniki

Greek police in Thessaloniki arrested three suspects for the crime of human trafficking after it discovered sixteen migrants held in a secret basement on Wednesday. Officers removed a wardrobe and discovered a hatch in the floor which led to the...

Hellenic Petroleum chairman and CEO Efstathios Tsotsoros said on Wednesday that the existing oil pipeline between Thessaloniki and Skopje could resume operation as soon as the end of this year. Speaking with the state-run AMNA news agency, Tsotsoros noted that...

The arrest of a 90-year-old woman in Thessaloniki on Thursday for selling handmade knit woolen shoes without a license has generated uproar in Greek society. The woman, who is of Pontic descent, was selling woolen shoes she was knitting herself...

A silent march was held on Sunday to mark the 76th year since the departure of the first "death trains" which carried Thessaloniki Jews to their doom at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. At least two thousand people gathered at Thessaloniki's...

The Civil Aviation Authority of Greece released the latest data on Thursday measuring passenger traffic through Greek airports for the months of January and February, 2019. According to the data, total passenger traffic through Greek airports grew by an impressive...

Local officials from Thessaloniki announced on Wednesday that they have selected two new methods to fight wildfires in the city's peri-urban forest of Sheikh Sou, or Cedar Hill, as it is officially known. The two methods include three radar dishes, which...

Joseph Nissim, the Thessaloniki Jew who escaped from the Nazis, fought in WWII and later created the "Bolton Group" business empire in Italy, has died in Milan at the age of 100. Nissim's name is not very well known to...

A tragic incident involving the death of a firefighter took place near Thessaloniki on Friday afternoon. A 46-year old man who was a member of the fire brigade of Thessaloniki was attempting to extinguish a fire in Thessaloniki's Kalochori area...

A wave of cold weather hit Northern and Central Greece on Saturday morning, covering most parts of the region in snow and pushing temperatures below zero. The storm that weathermen have named "Oceanis" left major cities in Northern Greece with...

  The Central Council of Greece's Contemporary Monuments decided earlier this week to approve an architectural team's plan to renovate the historic Modiano Market in Thessaloniki. According to Morpho Papanikolaou, one of the architects who designed the project, the construction will take...