Kozani

Oneiroupoli at Drama

Ask most Greeks, and they’ll tell you that the richest Greeks live in Ekali, Kifisia or Filothei in the northern suburbs of Athens. The truth, according to data of the General Secretariat of Public Revenue, is that the wealthy Greeks of the Athens northern suburbs are constantly getting poorer. Hence, the new wealthy Greeks are in Kozani – northern Greece.

New Democracy (ND) leader Evangelos Meimarakis attended the celebrations for the liberation of the city of Kozani from the Turkish.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’ companion and the mother of his two young sons, Peristera “Betty” Baziana, continued her academic ascent this week in Greece’s state-only higher education system, with the University of Western Macedonia announcing that Baziana was hired to teach a once-a-week computer course at the provincial school.

A 35-year-old driver and his 19-year-old passenger died on Wednesday after their car veered off the old national highway between Kozani and Thessaloniki in northern Greece.

The vehicle crashed into a tree, inflicting fatal injuries on both the driver and his female passenger.

A 57-year-old man who let off a racist rant at a Nigerian doctor working at Kozani?s general hospital on Thursday received a six-month suspended prison sentence after a court found him guilty of violating anti-racism laws.

Municipal authorities in Athens, Piraeus, Thessaloniki and other cities around Greece on Monday night opened dozens of emergency shelters as temperatures across the country slid into the single digits, with forecasts expecting the cold snap to persist through Thursday.

Authorities in Western Macedonia issued a warning on Tuesday about high smog levels in the region caused by the large number of households using fireplaces to keep warm.

According to regional authorities, atmospheric pollution in the municipalities of Kozani, Eordaia, Amyntaio and Florina have risen above the warning level.

A cold snap that took hold over the weekend is to continue this week with storms expected in many parts and snowfall in the north and mountainous parts of the mainland.

Following several months of relatively mild weather, snow and sub-zero temperatures appeared across much of the north over the weekend, starting in Thessaloniki and spreading to central and western Macedonia.

Five people, including three Greek nationals and two Bulgarians, have been arrested for baby trafficking in the northern town of Kozani

The arrests were made on suspicions that a 23-year-old Bulgarian, who had been admitted to hospital to give birth, was planning to sell the baby to a Greek couple.