Thessaloniki

Thessaloniki Mayor Yiannis Boutaris on Wednesday announced that he will not run for office in the May 2019 local government elections, saying that his "cycle has closed." The mayor first informed the deputy mayors and his close associates, and then...

According to a list published by the famous Venue Report travel magazine, two new Greek cafés have made it to the list of ''2018's Hottest New Café Openings Across the Globe''. The list featured eighty-five spots around the world, with third...

The leader of the opposition center-right New Democracy party, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, said that the agreement between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), also known as Prespa agreement, is detrimental to thousands of enterprises in Northern Greece,...

Fifteen statues created by the Chinese artist Xu Hongfei will be installed at Pier I of the port of Thessaloniki between December 17 and December 24 as part of Culture Week and a worldwide exhibition of the artist's sculpture,...

The First Greek-Serbian Tourism Forum to increase the growth of tourism and develop specialty tourism between the two countries throughout the year was held in Thessaloniki on Friday. A total of 97 tourist agencies and organizations attended from Serbia and 135 from...

Unknown individuals vandalized the house of Thessaloniki mayor Yiannis Boutaris on Wednesday night. The perpetrators broke into the apartment building entrance, went up to the floor of Boutaris' apartment and spray-painted on his door in red. They also spray-painted the...

Greece’s second largest city is often cast in Athens’ shadow, especially when it comes to politics, business and the economy. That's certainly not the case, however, with its rich culture, delicious cuisine, and intense nightlife, which rival that of...

The so-called "red tide" has once again made its appearance in the waters of the Thermaikos Gulf of of Thessaloniki's coastline. According to scientists, it is likely to be a recurring phenomenon. The "red tide" is the commonly-used name for...

''The great 'NO' uttered by Greece on October 28, 1940, remains forever current and must inspire the struggle to defend the European edifice against those 'nostalgic' for Fascism and Nazism'', the President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos said...

Thousands of people, locals and tourists, gathered in the center of the city of Thessaloniki to watch the military parade to commemorate ''OXI Day'', on the occasion of Italy's invasion in Greece on October 28, 1940. Greek civilian groups from...