Sea Rescuer volunteers from the Greek Red Cross had to intervene and rescue an elderly dog from a trap: he had found himself on the rocky sea mole at the Marina of Patras, North-West Peloponnese. For some unknown reason, the dog found himself in the sea and had swam approximately …

Greece is showing an intense seismic activity on Thursday with four earthquakes to have struck Zakynthos, Crete, Patras and Sporades in less than ten hours. The tremors caused concern among locals, however, Greek seismologists appear reassuring. The first tremor occurred at 1:45 Thursday morning with a magnitude of 4.8 R. …

Sunday is the peak of Apokries but also the end of  ‘crazy’ Greek carnival. The word Αποκριά literally means “off meat”, without meat and marks the beginning of Lent that starts on Clean Monday, the first day of the Great Easter Lent., where people are supposed to eat only cheese …

The Macedonia protest scheduled for February 25th in the city of Patras has been canceled. The organizer, a 22-year-old student, announced the cancellation with a post in social media where the promotion was been conducted.  The student said in a post of Facebook that the protest is being cancelled due …

Anarchists started to riot in two districts of downtown Athens after the peaceful march for the 44. Anniversary of the Polytechnic Students’ Uprising of 1973. After the march, the clashes started in Alexandra Avenue. According to protesters, riot police squads started to beat them without a reason. Anarchists hurled flares …

In Patras, Western Greece, migrants are seen to jump into the sea and are swimming towards departing ferries in an effort to leave Greece for Italy. They climb through the hanging ropes and try to get on board. The desperate ‘escape’ has been observed in the old port of Patras …

106 students at the University of Patras have submitted exactly the same assignment paper in the course “Dynamic Mathematical Models” at the Department for Business Administration. The paper was submitted last June. When the similarities were discovered the university decided to punish these students and exclude them from the exams …

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras inaugurated the 120-km section of the Corinth-Patras highway that makes the journey Athens-Patras possible in just 99 minutes. “Today we are inaugurating a work that many believed would never be completed,” the Prime Minister said adding that the highway “would never have been completed if it …

An earthquake measuring 4.6 on the Richter scale occurred at 06:43 pm with epicenter between Rio and Antirio, ten kilometers away from the city of Patras in Northwest Peloponnese. The Greek Geodynamic Institute measured the tremor as 4.4R, others as 4.5R and some even as 4.6R. Point is the the …

Police arrested a priest for having shot two dogs. The arrest followed denouncement and official complaint by local animal welfare organizations. The 65-year old priest shot the two dogs in front of children. According to the complaint, the priest shot at the dogs who had entered his home yard. He …

The economic crisis can lead descent people to commit crimes. Decent but desperate people living in poverty in Greece of bailout agreements. Decent but desperate people who feel no one and nothing can help them. A father in Patras stole a bag with fire wood in order to keep his …

Greek police located the parents of the two toddlers and one baby who are found abandoned in a street in Patras four days ago. According to Greek media, it was the 20-year-old mother who abandoned the two toddlers and the baby on an street. A couple of weeks ago, the …

An unbelievable story that caused sensation across Greece! Two toddlers and one baby have been found abandoned in a central road of Patras north-western Peloponnese. A citizen walking in the area found the three girls roaming around without the company of an adult. The older child was holding the baby …

An earthquake tremor sent residents in Patras, Nafpaktos and surrounding area on the streets despite the snow and the low temperatures with biting cold. The earthquake stroke with magnitude 4.5R at 11:53 a.m. on Monday. The epicenter was in the sea 10 km north of the city of Patras in …

A man jumped to death from the roof of his home in Ayia near Patras on Thursday. He has left a hand-written note saying “In the end, I wasn’t worth for anything.” According to local media, the 45-year-old man had a loan that he was not able to serve as …

These are pictures I hate to see. People waiting to receive a food package free of charge because they are unable to make a living. In Greece. In European Union of Solidarity. In the eurozone. Hundreds of people flocked to a sports facility in the city of Patras in Peloponnese …

And when you think, you’ve seen and heard everything possible and impossible in Greece of austerity and crisis… there comes this incredible human story: a family of five lives in carton boxes. In the city of Patras in western Greece. The family ended up on the streets after a labor …

You cannot take a breath in this country. You are old and suffer from a degenerative disease and you try to make your life a bit easier. No chance, in this country with automatic control mechanisms. Authorities come and grab your savings for the debts of another person. A dementia …

A 17-year-old girl has been recently hospitalized with starvation in a hospital in Patras, western Greece.  According to local media, the girl was transferred to the hospital in a very bad physical situation. Local news website PatrasTimes.gr that revealed the incident, the family are farmers, is poor and has two …

A teacher in amok, students in shock. Ateacher in a high school class went out of control and started to cut his arms, from the wrist to the elbow, with a paper cutter in front of screaming children in the classroom. Amid students’ screams and cries, the teacher spread the …