Manisa

A 5.1-magnitude earthquake struck Turkey's western Manisa province on Jan. 28, according to The Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD).

Boğaziçi University Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute has announced the magnitude of the earthquake as 5.1.

A 5.4-magnitude earthquake struck Turkey's western Manisa province on Jan. 22, according to Turkey's Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD).       

Ahmet Deniz, the governor of the province, said there are reports that some buildings were damaged but no casualties have been reported so far.       

Only four people were reportedly injured.       

The thermal power plant in the Soma district of Manisa province was sealed at midnight on Jan. 1 due to the failure to install filters on the chimneys despite the given one-month period deadline, Demirören News Agency reported on Jan. 1.

Turkey has started taking legal action against thermal power plants that do not comply with the environmental legislation in the country.

Archaeological excavations that have been ongoing in the ancient city of Thyateira in the western province of Manisa have unearthed a temple, which is believed to date back to the Hellenistic and Roman eras. The rectangle-planned temple has the traces of Ionian architecture.

May 13 marked the fifth anniversary of Turkey's deadliest ever mining accident, with the families of the victims flocking to the graves of their loved ones in the Soma district of the western province of Manisa amid commemoration ceremonies.

Patients at a mental institution in the western Turkish province of Manisa have formed an Ottoman army band.

A man in the western Turkish province of Manisa has been sentenced to 57 years in jail for sexually abusing his three daughters.

Only one percent of the ancient city of Aigai in the Yunuslar district of the western Turkish province of Manisa has been unearthed so far in the excavations that started back in 2004. Click through for the story in photos...

A Turkish court has handed out hefty jail sentences over the death of 301 miners in Turkey's deadliest ever mine disaster in the Soma district of the western province of Manisa on May 13, 2014.

The western province of Manisa is home to three of the seven major churches of Early Christianity. Officials and tourism managers want to improve faith tourism in the city, which has already been drawing many Asian worshipers.