Patras

On Tuesday, a Patras Misdemeanors Appeals Court handed down prison sentences amounting to 77 years, merged to 40 years, to four defendants standing trial for the disastrous forest fires of 2007 in Ileia, Peloponnese, Greece, in which 36 people...

A 4.8-magnitude earthquake shook the cities of Patras, Aegion, Nafpaktos and other areas of the northern Peloponnese at 7:10pm on Friday evening, according to Athens’ Geodynamic Institute. The tremor occurred at a depth of 5 km and its epicenter is...

The Patras house where Greek national poet Kostis Palamas was born, is sold to a Greek businessman who lives and works in the USA. The 75-year-old man, who also hails from Patras, is planning to turn the house into a museum. According...

A strong earthquake, estimated at 4.7 magnitude (preliminary estimate by the Athens Geodynamic Institute), struck approximately 28 kilometres south of the western Greek city of Patras at 6:12 p.m. (15:12 GMT). There are no reports of damages yet. In January, a series of strong...

Greek police in the port of Patras in southern Greece have recently arrested five members of a migrant trafficking group operating out of Greece and Italy. A sixth member remains undetained. The traffickers were arrested while attempting to convey 13 foreigners...

A Greek ferry boat has suffered an accident near the island of Corfu. The ferry was traveling from Ancona, Italy, to Patras in Greece with 692 passengers on board and a crew of 70. All passengers have been safely transported to...

A 5.3 magnitude earthquake shook western Greece on Sunday. The earthquake's epicenter was in the region of Nafpaktos and occurred at a depth of 20 kilometers, according to reports from Focus news agency. With a population over 18,000, Nafpaktos is situated on a bay on the...

In an extensive article about what happened on Wednesday, July 30, after the court decision to acquit the accused farmers who shot at and injured 28 strawberry pickers from Bangladesh in Manolada, British newspaper The Guardian spoke with members...

A Patras appeals court on Wednesday acquitted two of the four men charged with shooting and injuring 28 migrant labourers in Nea Manolada, Greece, in 2013. The migrants were working picking strawberries and they had gathered to ask for their...

Twenty two people were injured on Thursday morning, May 29, when a public bus taking passengers from Pyrgos to Patras overturned on the Patras Perimeter Road, near Omvria exit. The driver lost control of the vehicle and the bus ran...