The General Workers Union announced agreement with VF Corporation on worker compensation yesterday, barely 24 hours after the company broke the news of the planned closure of its Malta plant in August, with the loss of 570 jobs....

A man was jailed for three years yesterday after he admitted defiling a six-year-old girl in a games room in St Julian’s. ...

Following just over two hours of deliberation, a panel of jurors yesterday declared that a man accused of killing his partner by stabbing her 47 times was sane when he allegedly committed the crime. ...

President Eddie Fenech Adami is on an official visit to Kercem, at the invitation of the local council, and started his visit with a meeting with students and teachers....

The Armed Forces of Malta’s Air Wing’s Alouette rescue-helicopter, callsign “Alpha-Sierra One-Two”...

Twenty-one Africans are feared drowned in another tragedy involving irregular migrants...

Only 2,244 bills in excess of Lm5 were issued after the first month of operation of the Controlled Vehicle Access System in Valletta...

The overwhelming majority of respondents think that the development overlooking Ramla l-Hamra should not go ahead, according to an online poll on The Malta Independent website....

The government explained yesterday why no inquiry was needed into the decision by the Malta Environment and Planning Authority to give the green light to development at Ramla l-Hamra...

A 17-year-old boy from Birkirkara was jailed for two years yesterday, suspended for three years...