Malta got a special mention in the European Environment Agency seventh progress report with respect to EEA member countries reporting obligations to the agency on environmental data....

A Libyan was beaten up and had his money stolen by three men while walking in Sliema late on Thursday evening. A police statement said that at 10.30pm the police had been informed that an armed theft had taken place at the Sliema Strand....

The Medical Association of Malta called on the government to start discussing the proposed health reforms with it without further delay. The MAM said in a statement that it has not been consulted about the matter....

Subsidies paid for new plantings in vineyards from 2002 to date amount to about Lm200,000, or about Lm480 per tumolo, the Parliamentary Secretary for Agriculture and Fisheries, Francis Agius, said yesterday....

The Malta Tourism Authority (MTA) said that it is in no way responsible for regulating any aspect of the transport sector....

Hot on the heels of several court cases involving violence in families, a new criminal section of the Family Court was officially opened yesterday....

A man pleaded not guilty to indecently and violently assaulting a woman last Thursday at 8am in Valletta....

A woman was given a year’s conditional discharge after being caught by beach patrol police stealing a bag from a Japanese tourist....

A man has denied assaulting and slightly injuring two wardens and another man in St Paul’s Bay in the early hours of Thursday morning....

Three men walked freely out of court yesterday after they were acquitted of defrauding Mid-Med Bank of Lm500,000 around 12 years ago because insufficient evidence was presented against them....