Central Valley

A lake that dried up 80 years ago yesterday looked set to reappear, as monster rainfall accumulated over California's wet winter season overwhelms the state's rivers.

With California entering the third year of severe drought, U.S. federal officials have said they will not deliver any water to farmers in the state's major agricultural region - a decision that will force many to plant fewer crops in the fertile soil that yields the bulk of the nation's fruits, nuts and vegetables.

The availability of air seats to regional airports in Greece from foreign markets this year will only rise by 1 million over 2016, and not 3.5 million as carriers had originally planned for, according to data from the Institute of the Greek Tourism Confederation (SETE).

Two months before the end of 2016, Sofia Airport exceeded the record number of 4 million passengers (4,076,897), announced the venture.

In October, there was a 33% increase (477,323) in the number of passengers, compared to October 2015.

The number of passengers processed at Terminal 1 doubled in the period, reaching 262,000.

Athens International Airport is extending an incentive scheme aimed at encouraging airlines to use the country?s main terminal during the winter into the summer, in an effort to achieve sustainable growth.

Passenger traffic in all of Greece’s airports is rising, showing an increase of 26.6% with a total of 1,485,573 passengers.

As far as domestic passengers are concerned, the rise is estimated at 32.5%, which is translated to a total of 796,434 passengers.

Foreign passengers rose by 20.%, for a total of 689,139 passengers.

By Alexandra Kassimi

Greek airports broke the all-time arrivals record for a single year in just the first 11 months of 2014, as incoming traffic beat last year’s figure by 6 million passengers to reach 43 million.

An envelope containing yellow powder was sent to the Hungarian Consulate early Oct. 27, the Istanbul Governor’s Office said, two days after five other Western consulates received similar suspicious packages. The incident came as the Turkish health minister announced that tests for anthrax and plague came back as negative.

Turkish airports saw their busiest month ever in June, serving over 16 million passengers through the month, according to figures announced by the country’s airports authority on July 5.

The 16.7 million passengers served by Turkish airports in June marked a 10.6 percent increase from the same month last year, the General Directorate of State Airports (DHMÄ°) said in a statement.