Chania

With less than two months to go before the European Parliament elections on June 9, the campaign has entered a crucial phase with tours by political leaders and party committees being a key element.

Greece's Coast Guard said on Thursday it had rescued 37 migrants from a vessel off the southern coast of Crete. 

The migrants were found on Wednesday night 18 nautical miles southeast of the small island of Gavdos. They were all collected by a container ship sailing nearby before they were transported by the Coast Guard to the port of Paleochora, near Chania.

Shortly before Monday's visit by Migration and Asylum Minister Dimitris Kairidis to Gavdos, south of Crete, 74 people were found on a boat that was at risk 10 nautical miles southeast of the island and rescued by the coast guard. They were transferred to the port town of Palaiochora, Hania on Crete (photo).

The immigrants were rescued and safely transported to Paleochora in Chania

MOMus-Thessaloniki Museum of Photography (Warehouse A, Pier A, Thessaloniki port) is presenting the work of photographer Elli Sougioultzoglou-Seraidari, best known as Nelly's, focusing on the three cities where she focused her photographic gaze from the early 1920s to 1966.

All of the rescued are accommodated in a building of the Chania Port Fund

The final contractor for the construction of the Hania-Hersonissos section of the North Road Axis of Crete highway will have been found by early summer, Infrastructure and Transport Minister Christos Staikouras said in Hania on Monday, noting that the concession contract will be signed by the end of the year.

The final contractor for the construction of the Hania-Hersonissos section of the North Road Axis of Crete highway will have been found by early summer, Infrastructure and Transport Minister Christos Staikouras said in Hania on Monday, noting that the concession contract will be signed by the end of the year.

A 3.2-million-euro project to revamp a major public square in downtown Hania, Crete, is getting under way on Monday, with local authorities hoping to create a mobility friendly environment that will also bolster the businesses flanking the square.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's brief visit to Crete highlighted the increasingly valuable role Greece plays in its wider region, as it is rightly viewed as a credible member of NATO and the European Union and a pillar of stability in a geopolitically critical, but volatile, area.