The Nationalist Party said today that a ‘whole society approach’ was needed to tackle the obesity issue, meaning an approach that reached from before birth to the elderly years.  In a...

On off-duty police sergeant yesterday foiled a break-in attempt in Pieta`.  The police said the incident took place at around 2315, in Triq id-Duluri. The off-duty police man saw a...

Two hunting organistaions said today that, in view of the ‘perceived decline’ of turtle dove populations and after the species was classified as vulnerable, the government should declare a...

The tenth team of the Kilimanjaro Challenge Malta is gearing up to take on the highest free-standing mountain in the world, all for a good cause. Over the past ten years, over a 100 members have...

A total of 18 cats are left from the once 80-strong colony at the San Gorg Preca College in Blata l-Bajda, volunteer Rita Buhagiar told The Malta Independent. Following what seemed like a mass...

Tourism and Culture Minister Francis Zammit Dimech said that the doors of the 15 member states of the European Union which were ajar before Malta’s accession to the EU are today wide open for Maltese young people to further their studies, to work and...

The government is in favour of setting up an animal hospital for the care and cure of abandoned animals....

The Public Health Department said that samples of sea water taken from St George’s Bay in St Julian’s this summer never indicated that there was a level of contamination that was dangerous to persons swimming in the bay....

The VAT department will be increasing its inspections of various establishments in Malta and Gozo....

The current law regulating markets gives the duty to local councils to keep waiting lists of all hawkers that are licensed and who wish to set up stalls in the locality’s open market, a Department of Information statement said yesterday....