The Malta Environment and Planning Authority (MEPA) determined 622 applications in October and received 484 new ones. The net pending caseload at the end of the month was 4,541....

Austin Gatt, Minister of Infrastructure, Transport and Communications signed on behalf of the government the Blue Med Declaration on the creation of a Mediterranean Functional Airspace Block (FAB)...

A Russian registered bulk carrier, Yelena Shatrova, rescued 67 migrants in bad sea conditions in the Maltese Search and Rescue Region late yesterday afternoon, an AFM statement said. ...

A 28-year-old man pleaded not guilty to hitting another man with a glass in front of Havana Bar, Paceville on 1 May at about 3.25am....

Social dialogue in Malta is going through difficult times with the Malta Council for Economic and Social Development used simply as a simulation exercise, said Union Haddiema Maghqudin secretary general Gejtu Vella said yesterday. ...

Two men admitted yesterday to dealing stolen jewellery worth more than €2,329.37....

Malta and Greece have agreed on the need for EU countries in the central and eastern Mediterranean to hold a quadrilateral meeting as early as possible to discuss matters of common interest....

The Philatelic Bureau of Maltapost plc will be issuing a limited edition occasion card and postal card during the Maltex 2008 Philatelic Exhibition being held at the Hotel Phoenicia, Floriana between Friday 7 and Sunday 9 November....

To mark the centenary year of the founding of St Aloysius’ College the Old Aloysians’ Association is holding a reunion for all past students....

Alternattiva Demokratika’s spokesperson for international affairs, Mark Scerri, said Senator Barack Obama’s victory against Senator John McCain was indeed a historic moment because the Americans...