The Senglea local council yesterday filed a judicial protest against the captain and owners of a ship berthed at the Malta Shipyards claiming the residents and a large number of cars and boats were damaged by soot released from the ship’s boiler. ...

The Water Services Corporation is taking remedial action to eliminate a drainage overflow in Mgarr, Gozo sea front. ...

The hot temperatures recorded at the Meteorological Office over the past few days are expected to slide down by about three to four degrees Celsius towards the second part of this week, according to Saviour Porter, ...

The Malta Environment and Planning Authority Audit Officer, Joe Falzon, has written to the Ombudsman and the Mepa chairman requesting that investigative officer Carmel Cacopardo be reinstated, “as an interim measure”....

Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh will pay a short private visit to Malta in November, at the invitation of the Maltese Government....

A group of irregular migrants, including a mother and her three-day-old infant born at sea, was rescued by a Spanish patrol boat, the Rio Cervantes, presently part of the Frontex Operations. ...

Malta’s High Commissioner to India, Wilfred Kenely, has presented his credentials to the President of India, Dr Abdul Kalam, at the Rashtrapati Bhavan,...

The hot and sticky weather which has prevailed in Malta over last weekend and earlier this week resulted in Enemalta registering on Monday afternoon the highest ever demand for electricity in its 30 years of operations....

HUNTING FOR TREASURE: Fredrick Muscat searches the beach for hidden treasure using a metal detector. On a good day, Fredrick can find up to Lm4 in dropped change. He has also found diamond rings and a cellular phone. ...

A ship’s captain, chief engineer and superintendent were each fined Lm300 after they pleaded guilty to illegally dumping ash from the ship’s boiler on Saturday morning while the ship was docked at the Malta Shipyards. ...