Trikala

A man lost his life when the air-conditioning unit he was trying to repair in his office, on the Trikala-Karditsa national highway in northern Greece, exploded for unknown reasons. The 51-year-old man was rushed to hospital, but died a few hours later.

The Meteora Wrestling Academy kicks off this Thursday, July 6, 2017. The International Wrestling Camp is scheduled to be held at the foothill of the majestic Mount Meteora from July 6 to 13.

A visit this week to Trikala and meetings there with government and business leaders has reinforced my optimism about Greece's future and this country's rich endowment of human and natural resources.

An 8-year-old model from Greece is leaving her mark on the fashion industry in Germany. Panagiota Manafa from Trikala in central Greece recently signed her first model contract with a German agency and appeared on renowned catalogue “Otto”. As local website oichalialive.gr reports, the parent of the blue-eyed “angel” are proud of their daughter’s success.

Vassilis Tsitsanis (1915-84) penned wonderful melodies, wrote lyrics that spoke directly and emotively to the listener and was a master of the bouzouki. During his lifetime the Greek folk singer reached out to a broad public and today he continues to gain new fans from every walk of life.

Farmers and livestock farmers in Kilkis, northern Greece, blocked access to and from the Evzoni crossing on the border with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia on Saturday.

Farmers are expected to drive their tractors to the Axios bridge near Idomeni in northern Greece Saturday morning before continuing to the Evzoni crossing near the border with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia as part of a protest against the government's ongoing austerity drive.

The municipal authority of Trikala in central Greece on Sunday issued an announcement thanking dozens of Syrian refugees staying at a camp in the vicinity for their help in distributing drinking water to flooded villages in the area.

Bad weather in parts of the country on Saturday left at least one person dead and widespread damage, following the death last week of four people and the disappearance of another in floods.

A 30-year-old man died early Saturday when the car he had been driving was swept into a swollen stream in the village of Vrysoules near the town of Corinth.

Five people have lost their lives due to the heavy rainfall in the past few days. A 30-year-old man from Ksilokastro was the last “victim” of the extreme weather conditions. He tried to drive through a stream in his car, a few meters away from his house, but he was swept away by the fierce water.