Modern regions of Greece

The first step toward the rejuvenation of the so-called Athens Riviera was taken on Tuesday with the transfer of 20 properties covering a total of of 3.64 square kilometers to special purpose company Attica Coastline SA.

The Court of Audit ruled on Tuesday that Panathinaikos soccer club should not receive 7 million euros from the Attica Regional Authority to improve its stadium at Alexandras Avenue in central Athens.

The court found that the transaction, approved by the previous Attica Governor Yiannis Sgouros, was not in the public interest.

A military airfield in Tripoli, in the Peloponnese, will be opened to passenger traffic, according to a joint decision signed on Tuesday by the ministers of Defense, Dimitris Avramopoulos, and Infrastructure, Michalis Chrysochoidis, ceding partial use of the airport to Civil Aviation Authority.

A 64-year-old woman was arrested in the Langada suburb of Thessaloniki on Tuesday, on suspicion that she had been cashing in the pension of a dead aunt for six years.

The economic program presented by Alexis Tsipras at the Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF) on Saturday would cost 11.3 billion euros to implement, SYRIZA said Monday.

Christos Chomenidis resigned from the supervisory board of NERIT on Monday, citing "direct government intervention" in the state broadcaster's decision not to air live a speech by opposition leader Alexis Tsipras at the Thessaloniki International Fair on Saturday.

Opposition leader and SYRIZA chief Alexis Tsipras is expected to visit the 79th edition of the Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF) in the northern port city over the weekend.

The opposition head’s agenda includes meetings with TIF-Helexpo management officials and unionists as well as visits to the fair’s pavilions.

The chief of the children’s surgery unit at the Georgios Gennimatas hospital in the northern port city of Thessaloniki was arrested late on Wednesday over charges of allegedly demanding a 1,000 euro bribe in order to operate on a 20-year-old patient.

A morning storm in Thessaloniki caused several power cuts across the northern city on Wednesday, including in the areas of Peraia, Panorama and Chortiatis, among others.

Meanwhile, traffic resumed on the old Thessaloniki-Edessa national highway on Wednesday after a ban was imposed by police when debris was detected on the road following heavy rainfall in the area on Tuesday.

Naval support ship Prometheus will be touring the Dodecannese in the eastern Aegean from September 3-11 in order to provide residents of remote islands with primary healthcare, the Hellenic Navy reported on Tuesday.