Pope Francis says he's willing to create a commission to study whether women can serve as deacons in the Catholic Church, signaling the possibility of letting women serve in ordained...

Malta has pledged at the London Anti-Corruption Summit to implement a number of measures to stamp out corruption, punish the corrupt and support the victims of corruption.  The first pledge is to...

A 31-year-old man from Birzebbugia today was sentenced to four years in prison on charges related to several thefts in various localities.  The court heard how in between June of 2015 and April...

The General Workers’ Union and the Union Haddiema Maghqudin both reacted to a story carried in yesterday’s issue of The Malta Independent in which sources were quoted describing what transpired during Monday’s meeting of the Malta Council for Economi...

MLP spokesman Carmelo Abela questioned the recent introduction of a Lm10 tariff at the University of Malta, asking whether this was the prelude of a fee such as that for attending the university....

A man was charged in court yesterday with assaulting and slightly injuring a local warden after he had given him a fine....

A man was yesterday charged with making gestures that could have been interpreted as provocative and which could have led to a fight during the village feast....

The European Court of Human Rights has handed down a judgement against the Maltese government, charging it with breaching article six of the European Convention of Human Rights, to which Malta is a signatory....

The Vikings Sailing Club is once again holding its annual 50-hour sailing marathon, this time to raise funds for the Muscular Dystrophy Group....

Last year the Malta Environment and Planning Authority appeals board recorded the lowest number of applications for appeal in the last 10 years, said Rural Affairs and the Environment Minister George Pullicino....