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Larnaca is continuing its anti-flood works, with the project in the area of Kamares now ahead of schedule, the city’s district self-government organisation (EOA) said on Thursday. Works on ...

The forestry department renewed calls on Thursday ahead of the mid-August holiday for extreme caution due to the high risk of fires. As people in Cyprus usually take their summer ...

The education ministry has launched a project to install cold water dispensers in schools across the island, a process which began last year with a tender for 25 schools and will ...

A fire in Orounta, Nicosia, that started in the early hours of Thursday, has been contained and efforts are under way to put it out completely. The fire brigade said ...

Ten people were arrested in overnight police operations for various offences, including the illegal possession of drugs, causing a disturbance and failing to appear in court. The police said 505 vehicles ...

A company car was lightly damaged in a fire that started just after midnight in Limassol. The police said the car was parked outside the residence of a 62-year-old and ...

Sunny and hot weather will be prevailing across the island on Thursday, however clouds forming locally around noon are expected to yield isolated showers and thunderstorms, mainly over the mountains. ...

Larnaca district The 44th Lefkara Festival continues with a busy agenda this week. On Thursday, August 13, the Back to the 80s, 90s and 00s party will bring retro hits to ...

The new parliament that emerged from May’s elections has a demanding legislative agenda ahead of it when the session reopens at the beginning of September, with important bills and ...

Police have issued a warning over a new online loan scam targeting the public through social media advertisements, after a woman lost €10,000 to fraudsters. Police said that the woman followed ...

The met department has issued a yellow weather warning for extreme heat as temperatures are expected rise above 40 degrees Celsius on Thursday. According to the department, the warning will be ...

A total of €250,000 will be allocated for the creation of a modern animal shelter in Paphos, which is scheduled to be completed within 18 months, animal welfare commissioner Elias Myrianthous said ...

The two individuals suspected of attempted arson in the Kornos forest earlier this month are scheduled to appear before the Larnaca criminal court in a trial in October, the Larnaca ...

Greek Cypriot author Alex Michaelides’ debut novel The Silent Patient has been ranked among the 50 best thrillers of the 21st century, according to a list published by The New York ...

Inspections carried out by the civil aviation department show no reason for concern regarding the safety of Ryanair flights in Cyprus, the transport ministry said on Wednesday. The statement came ...

Police have arrested a fourth suspect in connection with the arson attack on a betting agency in Limassol on June 1, with a 30-year-old man taken into custody in Nicosia on ...

The new Cyprus branch of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) has recorded a surge in application numbers, with the acceptance rate for its medical school standing at 20 ...

The president of the Cyprus Bar Association, Michalis Vorkas, has urged caution over the investigation into journalist Makarios Drousiotis’ crowdfunding campaign for his legal expenses, stressing that the presumption of ...

A 22-year-old Romanian woman died on Wednesday after being critically injured in a traffic accident on the Delikipou to Lythrodontas road on Saturday. Anreea Larisa Harabor succumbed to her injuries ...

Police will step up security and traffic measures during the three-day August 15 holiday period, from Friday to Sunday. The police department said officers will have an increased presence on main ...

A 32-year-old woman lost more than €2,200 in an online accommodation scam, police said on Wednesday. The woman reported the case to Nicosia police on Tuesday, saying she had booked accommodation ...

Welfare benefit increases will be paid retroactively to beneficiaries in the last quarter of 2026, without any action needed on their behalf, the deputy welfare ministry announced on Wednesday. The increases ...

A group of young picnickers was caught lighting charcoal on Sunday in Akamas and was reprimanded by the forestry department, while in a separate case a man in Koutrafas is ...

The north’s ‘transport minister’ Erhan Arikli has lashed out at the Republic over efforts to maintain an arrest warrant against him in connection with the 1996 killing of Tassos Isaac. ...