Almost 200 new apartments spread across several development applications are planned for an area of fields in Safi, with the locality's council warning that if all of these are accepted and built, it will increase the village's population by a third....

Students at St Edward's College returned to school yesterday for the start of the new scholastic year, only to find an injured protected Eurasian Hobby (Falco subbuteo) in the school grounds, BirdLife said Tuesday.BirdLife Malta said it was called to...

 Pope Leo XIV said Monday that concerns about artificial intelligence going rogue are not "fake news" and should be taken seriously, insisting that safety issues raised by AI experts should be discussed and acted on.Leo, who dedicated his first ...

A 27-year-old Polish tourist pleaded not guilty in court on Monday in connection with the death of a 31-year-old Moroccan man in St Julian's on Sunday morning.Sebastian Malinowski, who works in a Dutch warehouse, was remanded in custody.Inspector Ste...

The Nationalist Party has accused the government of using parliamentary procedure to prevent the House from debating an Opposition bill aimed at implementing recommendations arising from the public inquiry into the assassination of journalist Daphne ...

Marco Bonnici is right to point out that schools should reflect the society in which children grow up. But recognising this reality does not mean we should avoid discussing how far our education system must adapt to the changes taking place in Malta,...

A Maltese court has ordered Steward Malta Management Ltd to pay more than €154,000 in outstanding catering bills linked to Gozo General Hospital and Karin Grech Hospital, in a judgment that traces the debts back to the period in which the compan...

Amo Frank Kwaku is on trial over the 2021 killing of 23-year-old Isaac Kwabena Kyere in Marsa, more than five years after a late-night argument between the two men allegedly ended in a fatal stabbing.Kwaku is accused of wilful homicide, unlawful dete...

A widespread power outage affected parts of Malta and Gozo shortly after 10am on Monday, with electricity restored to most areas within less than an hour.Enemalta said the disruption was caused by a trip at Delimara Power Station 4 at 10:08am.The com...

Roberto Mancini appears to have transformed Italy almost immediately.Italy stormed to a dominant 4-1 win at Turkey in the Nations League on Monday with the Azzurri's best performance for a long time, in Mancini's second match in charge.It was a far c...

The Minister for Accommodation and Lands, Owen Bonnici, has announced that a convent located in Kirkop will be converted into an affordable co-living residence. This project is set to assist 15 people at a time, will include a night shelter and a cli...

Mario Degiorgio has been convicted of money laundering in a case linked to payments allegedly made on behalf of his brothers, George and Alfred Degiorgio, while they were in prison.The 65-year-old, from Marsa, was however cleared of extortion charges...

Eight people were arrested after the police seized morem than 28 kilogrammes of suspected narcotics over the weekend.The first breakthrough occurred as investigators pursued leads tied to an earlier case where a 49-year-old man was previously arreste...

An ecological restoration project has been inaugurated at Għammar Hill, near the Ta' Pinu Sanctuary in Gozo, the Ministry for Gozo and the Ministry for European Funds said in a joint statement. This project, with a total value of one million eur...

 Pope Leo XIV urged Europe on Monday to draw from its Christian roots and traditions of dialogue to blunt the "desire for domination" driving today's wars, as he wrapped up a visit to France by recalling the forces that contributed to the contin...

Xjenza Malta is reinforcing its commitment to strengthening Malta's research and innovation ecosystem through new thematic funding opportunities-totaling €1.7 million in investment-that address national priorities and emerging sectoral needs, th...

Work has started on a €2.1 million project to rebuild the Ta' Mlit reservoir in Mosta, with the aim of reducing flooding in the area, increasing water storage capacity and eventually creating a new recreational space for residents, the governmen...

Repubblika and Occupy Justice have launched a programme of events throughout October to mark the ninth anniversary of the assassination of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.The organisations have chosen "Justice Demands Action" as this year's theme, ...

The Nationalist Party has said that it is “unacceptable” that another scholastic year has started, yet the significant shortage in Learning Support Educators has not been resolved.“As the new school year begins, we are once again fa...

Stronger laws and institutional reforms alone will not prevent political abuse unless those in power respect both the law and its spirit, Deputy Speaker and PN MP Bernard Grech has said, adding that Malta ultimately needs a change in government to ad...

Labour Party backbencher and economist Clint Azzopardi Flores told The Malta Independent that for the Maltese economy to have "more quality growth" or rather, more "equality growth" Malta must tap into its fast-growing industries that are offering mo...

The Malta Women's Lobby has called for urgent action to strengthen Malta's response to violence against women following the killing of Miriam Azzopardi, the second case to be prosecuted as femicide in the country in approximately six weeks.A man was ...

At the start of the scholastic year, the Malta Union of Teachers on Monday denounced "the failure of the Education Ministry to support its employees who are providing essential support to students."Counsellors, career advisors, psychotherapists, reso...

By the end of 2025, total agricultural output was estimated to have declined marginally by 0.1 per cent compared with 2024, while gross value added decreased by 1.7 per cent, the NSO said Monday.The total output value generated by the local agricultu...

A 31-year-old Moroccan man was found dead following an argument in Spinola Gardens on Sunday morning, with police later arresting a 27-year-old Polish man in St George's Bay.Police were informed at around 6.30am that a man who appeared to be lifeless...

Prime Minister Robert Abela said that the government will soon present a new behavioural framework for students that is set to introduce new protocols on school behaviour, search procedures, and emergency responses in all schools.The Prime Minister s...

The government's decision to compensate consumers who suffered power cuts during the heatwaves of July and August is a welcome acknowledgement that electricity interruptions carry a real cost for households and businesses.Yet compensation, however ju...

Malta's PISA results should prompt a "hard look" at the direction of the country's education system, PN leader Alex Borg said, as he called for greater emphasis on developing students' critical thinking skills and for educators and students to be inv...

Pope Leo XIV doubled down on his opposition to euthanasia and medically assisted dying during a visit Sunday to Lourdes, the French Catholic shrine associated with miraculous cures and now also a place of healing for survivors of clergy sexual abuse....

Malta should not introduce limits on the number of foreign students in classrooms, Malta Union of Teachers (MUT) president Marco Bonnici said, arguing that schools should reflect the multicultural society in which students live.Bonnici was responding...

An animal sanctuary volunteer has called for Malta to regulate dog breeding, arguing that unrestricted breeding contributes to animal abandonment and leaves volunteers with limited legal avenues when they identify suspected irresponsible practices.As...

Labour Party backbencher Clint Azzopardi Flores said that any phasing out of energy subsidies should be agreed upon by both sides of the House of Representatives and must be done in a manner that does not shock the economy.The PL MP stressed that if ...

PN leader Alex Borg does not face the same Roberta Metsola "shadow" that existed during "my time" at the helm of the party, former PN leader Bernard Grech said, acknowledging that when he led the party there had been an expectation that Metsola would...

Esther Sant and Betty Hanley Lee have never been paid a cent for their work, not even for the fuel they spend driving between Mater Dei Hospital and the homes of women they support. For 19 years, the chairperson and vice-chairperson of the Action for...

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Germany slumped to its first defeat under Jürgen Klopp with Dimitris Kourbelis giving Greece a shock 1-0 away win in the Nations League on Sunday.The Greek substitute scored with a deflected shot in the 74th minute, somewhat spoiling the mood in...

NGO Din l-Art Ħelwa said that the Qolla l-Bajda Battery in Qbajjar, Żebbuġ, Gozo will have a physical fence installed to keep passersby safely away from the structurally unsound heritage site.In a statement published on Sunday, the NGO...

Malta Chamber of Commerce president William Spiteri Bailey made a very simple point in a recent meeting with the Prime Minister.He said that at a government conference marking its first 100 days, the message had been that things were going very well ...

The Permanent Mission of Malta in New York organised a high-level discussion within the United Nations (UN) in New York on Sunday that centred around the protection of children in armed conflict. This meeting focused on the devastating impact of expl...

A wide range of sporting activities brought together people of all ages at the Kirkop Sports Complex on Saturday evening, the Ministry for Education and Sport said in a statement.Malta's national flagship event for this year's European Week of Sport ...

Thousands of people attended this year's edition of Rockestra on Saturday night and enjoyed the show put on by some of Malta's best local talent, including singers and dancers who were accompanied by musicians from the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra.Th...

Momentum said Sunday that across this September, three separate reports were filed by members of the public who were placed at risk by hunting activities - two of which included people getting directly hit by shotgun pellets, which should serve as a ...

The Malta Tourism Authority (MTA) has launched a public AI Tourism Platform, a centralised digital resource offering free access to comprehensive, data-driven insights into tourism in Malta, a statement said.The launch coincides with World Tourism Da...

British Prime Minister Andy Burnham has been in the job for two months, and so far his party isn't demanding his head. These days, that's an accomplishment.The governing Labour Party opens its annual conference beside the River Mersey in Liverpool on...

It verges on the incredible that, a full two weeks after the incriminating chats between Johann Buttigieg and Yorgen Fenech were revealed, the former is still heading the Planning Authority (PA), activists said Saturday."We are reiterating our urgent...

Part of the roof of the historic cloister at the Convent of Our Lady of the Grotto in Rabat collapsed on Saturday morning after heavy overnight rain, prompting renewed concerns over the condition of the centuries-old building.The Dominican community ...

Hundreds of thousands of people packed Paris' iconic Champs-Élysées avenue to attend an open-air Mass with Pope Leo XIV on Saturday, a sign of the Catholic Church's enduring appeal in the once staunchly Catholic but officially secular c...

The Speaker of the House of Representatives Carmelo Abela has stressed that full justice is needed for the assassination of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, saying that the case remains a matter of importance not only for her family but for journal...

Gozo needs a more diversified economy that creates more productive, private-sector and well-paid jobs, enabling young people and Gozitan workers to build their careers and their future in Gozo itself, Opposition and Nationalist Party leader Alex Borg...

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A Ghanaian man has pleaded not guilty to the femicide of 47-year-old Miriam Azzopardi, who was found dead in a field in Marsa on Wednesday.Isaac Asare, who resides in Triq is-Sajjieda, Marsa, was arraigned before Magistrate Astrid May Grima on Friday...

A substantial number of schools are still facing a shortage of assistant heads as State schools open next week, the Nationalist Party said Saturday.This is not a secondary issue or a mere administrative detail. These are key positions that are fundam...

World Cup winner Spain extended its unbeaten run to 39 games by rallying to a 3-2 win against England in the Nations League on Saturday.Substitute Mikel Oyarzabal came back to haunt England with his 74th-minute winner at Wembley.Oyarzabal also scored...

The Kamra tal-Periti (chamber of architects) is calling on Planning Authority chairman Johann Buttigieg to address "conflicts of interest" which have emerged in the past weeks, urging him to make a choice.The Council of the Kamra tal-Periti said Frid...

George Russell held off Max Verstappen for his first Formula 1 win in three months to cut into Kimi Antonelli's standings lead at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix on Saturday.Russell started on pole and built a big lead before having to defend on two safety...

Trust, or rather the erosion of it, was at the centre of Prime Minister Robert Abela's address to the United Nations General Assembly on Friday, as he argued that growing suspicion between governments, institutions and citizens was undermining the wo...

The first Budget of this legislature is now exactly one month away.  On 26 October, Finance Minister Clyde Caruana will take the stand in Parliament and address the nation to outline what the government's roadmap is going to be for the next 12 m...

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Health Ian Borg said that preparations for future pandemics must be based on practical measures that take account of each country's different circumstances.He was addressing a United Nations High-Level Meeting o...

Momentum said Saturday it has submitted a Freedom of Information request seeking detailed information about cleaning, rehabilitation and other works that have been carried out or are currently being carried out in valleys across Gozo.Cleanup works ha...

 Pope Leo XIV warned Friday that a "paradise of machines" risked undermining humanity as he opened a trip to France by posing fundamental questions about what it means to be human in the age of artificial intelligence, a nuclear arms race and ot...

The social partners convened for an MCESD meeting to discuss the outcomes of the first year of the Labour Migration Policy, which was initially launched in 2025, a government statement said Saturday. The session was attended by Minister for Infrastru...

At a time when the world is facing multiple crises at once, Malta must continue to be a voice for peace, dialogue and respect for international law, Minister for Foreign and European Affairs Chris Fearne said during a series of high-level meetings in...

The government on Friday announced an ex-gratia payment scheme for consumers who were affected by electricity supply interruptions during July and August 2026, a period marked by prolonged heatwaves and exceptionally high temperatures that impacted M...

At the end of August 2026, Central Government debt stood at a record €12,002.3 million, an increase of €864.1 million when compared to 2025, the NSO said.The increase reported under Malta Government Stocks (€658.9 million) was the main...

The Nationalist Party has criticised the government over the treatment of former Air Malta part-time workers, after a Court of Appeal ruling found that the workers had been unfairly dismissed.In a statement, the PN said the case exposed a contradicti...

Zinedine Zidane's first game in charge of France ended on a sour note as Kylian Mbappé injured his left knee moments after scoring in a 1-0 win in Turkey.The 2026 World Cup's best passer Michael Olise threaded a fine pass and the World Cup's a...

The Ministry for Gozo has announced the appointment of Juergen Attard as Chief Executive Officer of the Gozo Regional Development Authority (GRDA), and Abigail Camilleri as the Authority's first female Chairperson, the Gozo Ministry said in a stateme...

Arts Council Malta has launched the official catalogue of No Need to Sparkle: Experiments in Love and Revolution, Malta's national pavilion at the 61st International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia. The launch was held at R Gallery in Sliema....

Manchester City plans to fight the Premier League for months if found guilty of alleged financial breaches in potentially the biggest scandal in English soccer history.Reports Friday said an independent panel had upheld nearly all of the 100-plus fin...

The Armed Forces of Malta (AFM) is set to benefit from around €7.4 million in investment aimed at strengthening its operational capabilities, training and technological capacity, the Ministry for Home Affairs and the Ministry for European Funds ...

The Nationalist Party has questioned how the government ended August with a larger deficit and national debt exceeding €12 billion despite collecting €724 million more in tax revenue during the first eight months of the year than in the sam...

George Russell took pole position for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix after Formula 1 standings leader Kimi Antonelli hit the wall in qualifying Friday.With his teammate Antonelli out of the running, Russell showed why Mercedes is such a big favorite at th...

The Planning Authority has been asked to partially review the 2006 Ta' Qali Action Plan to address proposed changes concerning a family theme park, the Ta' Qali Crafts Village and the Pitkalija site.The request was made by the Minister for Infrastruc...

A total of 37,771 students will start the 2026/27 scholastic year in state schools, as more than €110 million in new and upgraded school projects is currently under way, a government statement said.The students, ranging from kindergarten to seco...

The Malta Developers Association (MDA) has urged the Nationalist Party not to “politicise” the controversy surrounding Planning Authority Executive Chairperson Johann Buttigieg, calling for a fact-based debate and political responsibility...

Italy's government passed a decree Thursday to place an upper limit on the number of students in each school classroom who have only limited Italian language skills and to ban face-covering Islamic veils in schools.Premier Giorgia Meloni's conservati...

A 38-year-old man sustained serious injuries yesterday evening following a traffic accident in Triq il-Missjunarji Maltin, Mosta, the police said Friday.The accident took place at around 6.30pm, when emergency assistance was requested after a collisi...

The Civil Protection Department (CPD) has warned the public not to underestimate the dangers posed by rough seas, strong currents and rapidly changing weather conditions, following four separate drowning incidents around the Maltese islands on Wednes...

The National Commission for the Promotion of Equality on Friday called for national work-life balance measures to be put foward in the budget for 2027 the government will be presenting on 26 October.The most recent study on Malta's population by the ...

On the day that the Nationalist Party returned to the Floriana Granaries for its Independence Day festivities after a hiatus of seven years, the party’s leader Alex Borg announced a departure of his own.The PN leader announced that his office a...

Prime Minister Robert Abela has met with senior leaders from Delta Air Lines and BlackRock in New York to explore expanded economic and travel ties, including the possibility of extending the direct Malta-New York flight route into 2027.During discus...

The Conference of Religious Major Superiors in Malta (KSMR), through its Institute for Consecrated Life (IĦK), is launching its programme of formation and accompaniment for the academic year 2026/2027, offering opportunities for ongoing human, s...

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled as inadmissible applications filed by the Degiorgio brothers regarding what they claimed as unfairness in criminal proceedings in connection with the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia in October 2017.Alfred...

DHL Express, the world's leading international express services provider, announced price adjustments today that will take effect on January 1, 2027. The average increase in Malta will be 4.9 %."International trade continues to create new opportuniti...

Moviment Graffitti and Friends of the Earth Malta have escalated their campaign against Planning Authority CEO Johann Buttigieg, following a high-profile direct action protest staged at the db Group hotel in St Julian's.The demonstration disrupted a ...

Malta began their UEFA Nations League journey in the best possible way, coming from behind to secure a hard-fought 2-1 victory against Andorra at the Encamp Stadium.The Malta national team found themselves stunned early in the match. Despite dominati...

Lashing out at his country's critics, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu angrily dismissed allegations of Israeli genocide in Gaza as "the biggest lie of the century" in a defiant speech to the U.N. General Assembly that asserted his nation's ...

The Nationalist Party has called on Prime Minister Robert Abela to state whether Johann Buttigieg will remain Executive Chairperson of the Planning Authority, after Buttigieg said that those who object to him continuing in the role should take the ma...

 Pope Leo XIV is taking his call to respect the dignity of every human life on the road with a weekend visit to France, where the Catholic Church has lost ground on influencing ethical issues as the country maintains a strict approach to secular...

Air Malta could not simply stop giving part-time workers shifts and leave them in limbo without telling them they had lost their jobs, the Court of Appeal ruled on Thursday.The court rubbished the former national airline's attempt to argue that it ha...

A board has ordered the eviction of the Labour Party from its premises in Valletta, which it has occupied for around 70 years while paying just over €50 a month in rent.The judgment comes seven months after a constitutional court found the renta...

The Nationalist Party said that taxpayers are bearing the cost of cases involving Labour's use of private properties, after the party was ordered to vacate its Republic Street premises in Valletta within one month.In a statement, the PN said the deve...

Germany began a new era under Jürgen Klopp, Erling Haaland scored two goals for Norway, and Cristiano Ronaldo was still playing for Portugal in the Nations League on Thursday.Klopp was all smiles in Amsterdam despite Cody Gakpo's late equalizer ...

BirdLife Malta has raised strong objections to proposed changes that would reduce penalties for offences involving the illegal killing of protected birds, arguing that the move could weaken the enforcement of Malta's conservation laws.Speaking outsid...

Works on a 30-court padel complex at Manoel Island can continue for the time being after the Environment and Planning Review Tribunal (EPRT) refused a request by three environmental and social organisations to suspend the development pending an appea...

Artificial intelligence, digital health and potential cooperation on complex patient care were among the areas discussed during a visit by Deputy Prime Minister and Health Minister Ian Borg to Mayo Clinic in the United States, a government statement ...

Former justice minister Owen Bonnici has strongly denied allegations of government interference regarding the 2019 public inquiry into the assassination of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.The controversy arose after former chief justice Vincent De ...

 A Ghanaian man has been arrested in connection with the murder of 47-year-old Miriam Azzopardi, who was found dead in a field by a main road in Marsa on Wednesday morning.Azzopardi was strangled by her aggressor and found under some trees in Tr...

Hundreds of newly qualified, recruited and returning teachers have attended an induction seminar ahead of the new scholastic year, with inclusion placed at the centre of this year's program.The seminar, held at Francis Ebejer Secondary School in Ding...

Magistrate Leonard Caruana and Magistrate Elaine Rizzo will be promoted as Judges, the Office of the President of Malta said in a statement on Thursday.Caruana is the magistrate who heard the case against now Foreign Affairs Minister Chris Fearne, fo...