Heraklion

A 5-year-old girl who was in one of two cars that crashed in the Cretan prefecture of Rethymno on Sunday was in the intensive care unit of Iraklio General Hospital on Monday.

The local traffic police have launched an investigation to determine the exact circumstances of the collision between the two cars on the national highway near the small town of Skaleta.

Dr Emanuele Grimaldi on Friday revealed his coastal shipping group's interest in new acquisitions not only in the Greek ferry market but also in the Greek ports system.

The Netherlands Institute in Athens is hosting an exhibition that was shown last month at the Archaeological Museum of Iraklio on Crete, tracing the evolution of that staple utensil the conical cup.

Dozens of people have been arrested at Iraklio's Nikos Kazantzakis Airport on the island of Crete on charges of attempting to travel with fake documents over the last week, according to local authorities.
Forty-one foreign nationals - 27 men and 14 woman - were arrested from September 9 to 15.

Α British national who went missing after going for a walk in a mountainous area in the regional unit of Iraklio, Crete, was found safe, Greek authorities said Thursday.
Giannis Zafiriou, spokesman of the local EMAK search and rescue unit, said the 72-year-old man is dehydrated and tired, but well in his health.

Greek authorities in Crete on Thursday launched a search operation to find a British national who went missing during a walk in the regional unit of Iraklio.

Tourism traffic this summer in Greece is slightly slower than last year, according to surveys, air arrival data and hoteliers.

The biggest pressure has been reported in Crete, as air arrivals dropped 7.2 percent in Iraklio in May and 5.6 percent in Hania. All other Fraport Greece-managed regional airports posted a decline averaging at 1.5 percent compared to a year earlier.

This year's International Festival of Literature and Art, organized by the Kazantzakis Museum in the village of Myrtia, close to Iraklio on Crete, has the celebrated Greek writer's travel book "Japan-China" as its starting point.

Three foreign nationals, two men, aged 21 and 25, and a 28-year-old woman, were arrested at Iraklio airport on Crete on Tuesday on charges of using forged travel documents.
The suspects had attempted to board flights to Italy and France using forged Italian, French and Austrian documents. They were to appear before a prosecutor.

The Archaeological Museum of Iraklio presents "Daedalus: In the Footsteps of the Legendary Craftsman," an exhibition dedicated to the achievements of the famed architect of the Labyrinth at Knossos, as well as on other technological innovations from ancient times, particularly during the Minoan civilization, in metalwork, shipbuilding and other fields.