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The paper processing factory which burned down in Ypsonas earlier this week will not reopen as it did not have the correct licences to operate, Curium mayor Pantelis Georgiou said ...

A fire raged on Thursday morning in Kyrenia district in the north, burning a forested area. It was later brought under control. Turkish Cypriot media said the blaze was in ...

A 43-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday morning in connection with a fire which broke out at a paper processing factory in the Limassol suburb of Ypsonas in the early ...

A fire covering roughly three hectares of dry grass, wild vegetation, trees and waste in the livestock area of Tseri, Nicosia was contained, authorities said on Monday. Four fire engines ...

A fire broke out in a pile of furniture which had been left next to an underground car park belonging to a block of flats in Limassol on Thursday afternoon, ...

Almost €140,000 has been paid by the government in salaries to a total of 126 workers who were unable to return to work as a result of the wildfire which tore through ...

Firefighters in Turkey are battling wildfires in the centre of the northwestern province of Canakkale, fanned by strong winds, and hundreds of residents have evacuated in precaution, local authorities and ...

The risk of forest fires breaking out on Monday has been set at “red alert”, the forestry department said on Sunday afternoon. It also warned the public that the act ...

The fire service and Omodos mukhtar Evgenios Michael were at loggerheads on Saturday over the cause of the wildfire which broke out near the village on Friday. Fire service spokesman ...

Omodos mukhtar Evgenios Michael on Friday said he is “satisfied” with the rate of progress being made by the government in its efforts to help the Limassol district in light ...

A wildfire broke out near the Limassol district of Omodos on Friday afternoon, and was contained shortly afterwards. Fire brigade spokesman Andreas Kettis said a total of eight fire engines ...

Police chief Themistos Arnaoutis on Tuesday said he has “no evidence” that the wildfire which tore through the Limassol district and killed two people last month was started “maliciously”. Addressing ...

Why do so many tenders for large public projects crash and burn? Sometimes the bidding competition gets bogged down in endless legal wrangling, eventually scrapped, and authorities have to go ...

Compensation payouts to the victims of last week’s wildfires have already begun, the government said on Thursday. In a post on X, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said that already €122,000 ...

Thousands, of people held a demonstration in Limassol on Thursday evening, demanding accountability and protesting the government’s perceived inaction during last week’s deadly fires that swept through mountainous ...

Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou on Wednesday announced a “financial support plan” worth €1.3 million to help people who have been left unable to work if their workplaces or means of work ...

“This fire burned everything in its path. It was a ghost fire,” said Savvas Iezekiel, head of the forestry department, speaking a day after the flames were finally contained. “It ...

People affected by the wildfire that swept through Limassol villages are asked to report damages by Wednesday, deputy Limassol district governor Elektra Panayiotou said on Monday. “The crews are finding ...

The fire department on Monday disputed claims by the community leader of Vouni village that they “ran out of water” while fighting the wildfire tearing through the Limassol district last ...

The total cost of the massive wildfire in the Limassol mountains last week could rise by an additional €20 million, mainly due to long-term environmental destruction, Professor Theodoros Zachariadis of the ...

Ierokipia mayor Nikos Palios on Monday announced that he had sent a letter to the Union of Cyprus municipalities, proposing that the union raise €250,000 for the villages which were impacted ...

President Nikos Christodoulides’ televised apology for the government’s response to the wildfires which tore through the Limassol district and killed two people last week was “not enough”, House president ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Sunday evening apologised on behalf of the state over the response to the Limassol fires, which tore through villages leaving two dead, and over 120km² burned. “...

By Steve Lemeshko On the night of July 23, I stood outside in Limassol, watching ash drift from the sky. It was hard to imagine the chaos unfolding up towards the ...