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Police on Wednesday said they helped locate a man who got lost while hiking in the Machairas area the previous day. According to a police report, around 4pm on Tuesday ...

Steni community council has placed five nesting boxes on trees to attract barn owls as part of the biological control of rodents. The artificial nests in the Paphos village were ...

Three businesses were booked for a total of €2,500 after workers were found without a SafePass during 503 checks in Nicosia. A kiosk and an office manager who were working without a ...

In today’s episode, farmers working near the village of Denia in the buffer zone on Tuesday reported they were threatened by five soldiers from the north, some of whom ...

Police on Wednesday said they had arrested a wanted 44-year-old man after an air rifle and property reported stolen two years ago was found in his apartment. Officers had raided ...

Limassol police late on Tuesday arrested a 38-year-old man, who was a passenger in a car they stopped for traffic offences, on suspicion of money laundering and drug possession. The ...

A yellow weather warning for heavy thunderstorms and rain is in force until 4pm on Wednesday. “Isolated heavy thunderstorms are expected to affect initially the western part and gradually the ...

Efforts to encourage the use of small, lightweight, low-speed vehicles in Limassol are being hindered by a number of obstacles, micromobility industry stakeholders said during a panel discussion. The event, ...

The Industrial Turnover Index increased by 17.8 per cent year-on-year in November, with the index being 13.6 per cent higher in the first eleven months of 2021 when compared to the corresponding period ...

Over the last two years, parliament has approved relaxations that mean the penalty for limesticking has been slashed to just €200 for up to 50 birds It is coming back, creeping into ...

The companies running the commercial activities at Limassol port have agreed to suspend hiking their freight and handling fees until the end of the month while talks are ongoing with ...

A well-known Turkish Cypriot businessman was attacked and killed by gunmen while in his car in Kyrenia, media in the north reported on Tuesday. Halil Falyali was reportedly being driven ...

The health ministry’s epidemiological team is open to criticism about the handling of the pandemic, one of its members said on Tuesday, after a group of professionals questioned the ...

One in four Cypriots will suffer from cancer in their lifetime, while around 42 children under 10 are diagnosed with cancer yearly, state health services organisation Okypy said on Tuesday during a ...

The health ministry announced seven deaths and 2,885 new cases of Covid-19 on Tuesday. All seven deaths were men, aged 93, 82, 77, 76, 71, 63, and 58, bringing the total death toll to 756. There are 206 people being ...

MPs have taken the initiative and will be drafting legislation governing bank fees charged to account holders after the government said there was not much it could do about it. ...

The Green party has condemned the demolishing of ten traditional Turkish Cypriot houses in the Paphos village of Androlykou, stating that cultural heritage and history is being lost. The Greens ...

A five-year-old boy has been hospitalised after falling off a tractor in Kofinou, police said on Tuesday. A police spokesman said the accident took place around 10am, in a field ...

A total of 79 free rapid testing sites for coronavirus for eligible groups will operate nationwide on Wednesday, the health ministry announced. Free rapid testing for the general population has been ...

The government will channel 15 per cent of its revenue from the operation of the casino resort in Limassol to the Cyprus Land Development Corporation (CLDC) to finance housing schemes – including ...

Work is progressing on the construction of 16 wave breakers off Pervolia and Oroklini in a push to tackle erosion that is affecting the entire coastline from Zygi to Pyla, the ...

A Limassol resident reportedly located and played a key part in the arrest of the thief he had reported to the police. The 37-year-old suspect was remanded for eight days ...

The island’s second largest dam, Asprokremos, overflowed for the eighth time since it was built in 1982 on Tuesday, Kitas weather reported. The overflow, which started at 2.20pm, would be “...

A bill to protect victims of crime is set to be voted on in March, following the completion of discussions on the matter at the House human rights committee. The ...