During the month of June, the Nature Protection Unit (NPU) Inspectorate processed 95 applications to import or export flora and fauna specimens or parts and derivatives. ...

BirdLife Malta yesterday demanded that Environment and Rural Affairs Minister George Pullicino puts an immediate end to spring hunting in light of “undeniable proof that the practice is in breach of the EU Birds Directive”....

From Myanmar to Manikata, there’s nothing like a game of golf to galvanise a country’s civil society into action. By Raphael Vassallo...

The government yesterday published the second document for public consultation which lays down how Malta will be utilising the funds received from the European Union for the period 2007-2013. ...

A Criminal Court yesterday rejected a series of preliminary pleas filed by former chief justice Noel Arrigo and former judge Patrick Vella, who are facing criminal proceedings for accepting bribes, and put off the case for trial. ...

A lawyer yesterday told a court how he was beaten up by a man and his son in his office in Valletta which left him suffering from serious injuries, including a perforated ear drum. ...

A magistrates’ court yesterday heard how a police superintendent accused of accepting bribes received Lm100 a month for six years as protection money – against a promise to not take criminal action against people committing a crime. ...

Well-known fraudster Olaf Cini, who has six convictions for fraud on his criminal record, was yesterday jailed for a year after the court heard how he convinced a woman that he would open a travel agency on her behalf and defrauded her out of Lm9,000. ...

Chief Justice Vincent De Gaetano is this morning expected to hand down his decision on the Attorney General’s request for the revocation of bail for a man who is facing criminal proceedings for the importation of more than 50,000 ecstasy pills. ...

The Malta Transport Authority notifies that construction works on the storm water culvert situated at the lower end of Mill Street, Qormi (near the roundabout) are being carried out today between 9am and 6pm....