Personnel patrolling the islands’ coasts and beaches have no water rescue qualifications, but simply the basic first aid qualification needed to obtain a nautical licence, this newspaper has learnt....

After an absence of almost 100 years, a pair of Grey Wagtails successfully bred and raised two chicks in Malta this year, BirdLife Malta reported yesterday. ...

A rather straightforward application for an extension to a beauty salon in Attard had become somewhat of a cause celebre in recent months after the application was approved because when the permit was being drawn up, it was realised that the ap...

The Employment and Training Corporation seeks to assist young people to make a positive school-to-work transition through initiatives aimed to strengthen their standing in the labour market, ETC chairman...

The House of Representatives, which rose for the summer recess last Wednesday, has finished discussing the Malta Transport Authority Act at committee stage – talks that have gone mostly unnoticed by the media....

A former member of the PBS newsroom, John Inguanez, is monitoring every edition of the PBS 8pm news....

Eleven-year-old Angelique Attard was awarded e29,000 in damages last week for a permanent disability suffered when the school min-van she was in collided with a car in Triq San Aristarku, St Paul's Bay....

Nationalist Party officials feel they are being left “out of the loop” as Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi ploughs on, following a European Parliament election defeat that “has not spurred the party into action” nor generated a “much-needed revamp in...

The International Monetary Fund has, for the second year running, urged the government to scrap the cost of living adjustment (COLA) granted to workers through yearly budgetary provisions. ...

An Irishman accused of environmental crimes in the state of California has been arrested in Malta and remanded in custody after a Maltese court denied his request for bail this week....