Ilia

Given that the July 2019 elections were settled with a difference of less than two percentage points between New Democracy and SYRIZA in eight regions of the country, they are set to become fiercely contested battlegrounds in the upcoming elections as well. 

The Gorge of Neda, which separates the prefectures of Ilia and Messinia, in the southwestern Peloponnese, will be declared a protected landscape and natural formation, the Environment Ministry announced on Wednesday.

Police have launched a crackdown on an organized crime group involved in human trafficking and document forgery across various regions in Greece.

So far, the operation involving approximately 200 police officers in Athens, Thessaloniki, and Ilia in the Peloponnese has led to the arrest of 36 suspects.

The destructive force of wildfires in Greece since 2003 has been illustrated in a study by the National Observatory of Athens, which showed 10 of the most severe ones destroyed more than 280,000 hectares of vegetation.

The local community of Vartholomio, Ilia in southern Greece is reeling in horror and disgust at the abominable images posted online of dead dogs and cats that ingested poison placed by an unknown perpetrator.

The mayor of Sparta and former minister of ND, Petros Doukas, gave his own answer after the reactions to his unacceptable statements about the fires in Ilia in 2007.

Despite the signs of epidemiological stabilization that the country has been showing lately, the Regional Units of Kavala, Imathia, Pieria, and Pella have entered the red, therefore they have been placed in a mini lockdown regime.

There are many problems that the catastrophic fires that have hit the country in recent weeks have "bequeathed" to the Greek beekeeping industry. Problems concerning both the places where beekeepers "grazed" their flocks and the number of swarms, as a significant number of them could not be saved from the countless fiery fronts.

The crisis that the tourism industry is already experiencing in Evia, just a few days after the suppression of the catastrophic fire in the area, is enormous.

This is as the cancellations are avalanching, with an Open channel  report stating that 9 out of 10 bookings (!) have been canceled for this and next week.

Images of biblical destruction continue to unfold in Greece, where wildfires have been burning their way through forests farms and settlements since August 2 and where, in the next few days, temperatures are expected to soar to 42 degrees Celsius.