Imathia

Billions of flowers bloom every year in the peach trees of the fertile plain of Imathia, painting Spring pink

A little while back, a message appeared on Maria Biniola's Facebook wall. It was from her mother, Giota Kiropoulou, and it read: "Besides my daughter, I realized that while some spend their entire lives figuring out who they really are, others know it from the moment they come into the world.

It is midday as we ascend beneath a cloud-dotted sky to the "kingdom" of Philip II, the 4th century BC king of the Macedonians and father of Alexander the Great.

Hundreds of farmers with 300 tractors are expected to meet Thursday in central Thessaloniki, near the iconic White Tower, to line up at the entrance to the Agrotica exhibition, to press demands for greater support of the farming sector.

Α 6-month-old infant in northern Greece was beaten to death, a forensic report showed on Wednesday.

Police in northern Greece arrested a woman on Tuesday after the death of her six-month-old baby.

The 37-year-old mother, living in a village of Imathia, allegedly hit the infant. Her two other children, aged six and seven, who were present during the incident, ran out of the house and called for help. 

A 74-year-old woman suffered fatal injuries when a car, driven by her 50-year-old daughter-in-law, veered off the provincial road between Veria and Sfikia in the Imathia region of northern Greece on Tuesday, plummeting into a 20-meter ravine.

The head of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Imathia, Angeliki Kottaridis, has refuted a claim this week by influential Byzantine scholar Helene Glykatzi-Ahrweiler that the tomb in Vergina, in northern Greece, is not that of Philip II of Macedonia but of his son, Alexander the Great, the 4th century BC warrior king.

A 15-year-old boy was found dead in his parent's house in the village of Paleos Prodromos, in Imathia, northern Greece, on Friday night, police said on Saturday.

The teen was found at the staircase by his parents and a neighbour who had been looking for him. The paramedics who arrived at the scene confirmed the boy's death.

Visiting the city of Alexandria in Imathia on Sunday, main opposition SYRIZA leader Stefanos Kasselakis promised farmers that he would support them and that the Hellenic Agricultural Insurance Organisation (ELGA) would remain in the public sector.