Traffic was at a standstill yesterday afternoon at around 1pm on the Strand in Sliema due to a traffic accident between a mobile squad car and another vehicle driven by a woman....

The Malta Chamber for Small and Medium Enterprises said the heavy job losses in export industries showed that the economic reform that was needed called for much more effective restructuring and much more convincing incentives and plans....

A 28-year-old man from Hamrun who admitted to having a drug addiction problem, was yesterday accused of heroin possession with intent. ...

The next-door neighbour of a woman who was murdered in her home in Xewkija in February 2004 yesterday told jurors that on the night in question, she had seen two men running down the street....

A man was yesterday charged with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old Tunisian girl in St Paul’s Bay on Sunday. ...

An elderly woman was yesterday charged with accepting bribes and bribing a public official...

Harbourair Malta’s seaplane, which will soon start flying from the Valletta Waterfront to Mgarr harbour in Gozo, will touch down at Grand Harbour for the first time today at 5pm....

300 Valletta residents receive bills… laterasked to ignore them...

Stressing its opinion that Malta’s airport, or departure, tax is “discriminatory”, the European Commission yesterday decided to bring Malta before the European Court of Justice over the controversial “travel tax”...

Five men are missing and one is in stable condition after two big explosions took place yesterday at St Helena fireworks factory in an area known as Ta’ Xwieki, limits of Gharghur....