Chania

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is starting a two-day tour of Crete on Thursday to inspect ongoing infrastructure projects on the island and lend support to ruling SYRIZA's MEP candidates.

On Friday, he will speak at the indoor stadium in Chania at 7.30 p.m., according to state-run news agency ANA-MPA,
 

A nurse has reportedly been fired by the private health clinic Ippokratis in Piraeus because she shared a Facebook post that lambasted Alternate Health Minister Pavlos Polakis.

Greek news websites reported that Polakis' wife is employed by the same clinic.

Rescue teams on the Greek island of Crete have called off the search for a 64-year-old Polish man who went missing on April 13 while hiking in the mountains of Hania.

Almost 92 million euros has been earmarked for aid to Crete, which suffered serious infrastructure damage from the torrential storms that struck the southern Aegean island in February and March, local reports said on Monday.

Environment and Energy Minister Giorgos Stathakis sought to dispel fears over possible setbacks in the investment plan of Chinese giant Cosco in Piraeus on Wednesday, after Greece's top advisory body on the protection of antiquities voted to declare part of the area in question to be of archaeological interest.

Cretan-born Yiannis Stefanakis studied painting, engraving, hagiography and book art at the Athens School of Fine Arts. The exhibition "Yiannis Stefanakis - A Journey to Utopia," curated by art critic Peggy Kounenaki at the Municipal Art Gallery of Hania, presents concepts and techniques defining the work of this productive artist.

Passenger traffic in Greek airports grew 10.7 pct in the first two months of 2019, totaling 4,237,786 passengers, from 3,828,882 in the corresponding period last year, the Civil Aviation Authority said in a report released on Thursday.

Minos Zombanakis, a Cretan who became an influential international banker, died at 92 Saturday following a long illness.

He was born in 1926 at Kalyves, a village near the Greek city of Chania, the second of a farmer's seven children.

Zombanakis entered the University of Athens in 1943, during the German occupation, but never got his undergraduate degree.

The Eleftherios Venizelos passenger ferry is seen tilting at the port of Piraeus on Wednesday. The vessel, with 875 passengers and 141 crew onboard, caught fire in the car deck late Tuesday night near the island of Hydra on its way to Hania in Crete after departing from Piraeus at 10 p.m. No one was injured.

A 17-year-old boy has died in hospital from injuries sustained after falling from a height into the sea near Hania in Crete.

The incident occurred Tuesday afternoon at Seitan Limani, a rocky cove on the Akrotiri peninsular that is popular with bathers.