The Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices declined in January, mainly on account of a drop in the Clothing and Footwear Index, with the rate of inflation now standing at 2.5 per cent, the National Statistics Office reported yesterday....

A 17-year-old boy from Zebbug was yesterday charged with handling and circulating counterfeit cash, defrauding a number of petrol stations and stealing fuel. ...

The audit report about the Sant’Antnin waste recycling plant is not finalised yet, Architect Joseph Falzon, audit officer of the Malta Environment and Planning Authority (Mepa)...

The main projects around the Cottonera area were carried out by Nationalist governments over the years, said Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi....

A Qormi baker was yesterday cleared of seriously injuring a man with a knife after two conflicting versions of the event were presented in court....

The mayor of Zebbug, Gozo, the architect of the Zebbug local council, and a contractor yesterday filed three separate libel suits in the Gozo Court against Labour Party councillor Joseph Camilleri...

A 35-year-old mother of three children from Valletta was yesterday charged with threatening a school principal when she allegedly threw an umbrella at him after, she claimed, he made her daughter kneel in the courtyard all afternoon as a punishment....

The Qormi local council spent Lm200,000 in buying a town house and converting it into its new fully accessible offices, said Malta Labour Party leader Alfred Sant yesterday, while visiting the town....

The Malta Chamber of Commerce and Enterprise welcomed the government’s official application for Malta to join the eurozone...

The Maltese economy continues to transform itself at a rapid pace and a number of fiscal indicators reveal an improvement in the deficit situation which, combined with a modest inflation rate...