Chalkidiki

A state of emergency was declared in the northern Greek region of Halkidiki Thursday after six people died in deadly storms and gale-force winds that hit the area late Wednesday night.

Most museums and archaeological sites in Greece will operate normally on Sunday when Greeks go to vote in the snap election.
However, the Culture Ministry has noted that certain sites and museums will see changes in their opening times.

An increasing number of construction groups, both Greek and foreign, are seeking to capitalize on foreign funds' investment interest in the development of tourism infrastructure in Greece.

The management of construction company Technical Olympic, controlled by the Stengos family, has according to sources put into practice its alternative plan for the utilization of Porto Carras, its most important asset.

A boy slips into the sea in Nafplio in the Peloponnese. Greece's beaches have received the second largest number of Blue Flags in the world this year, behind Spain, it was announced on Tuesday. Greek beaches bagged 515 flags, 12 percent of the total. Most of them went to beaches on the Halkidiki peninsula in northern Greece. [ANA-MPA] 

The ongoing process for the selection of a buyer for the Porto Carras holiday resort at Halkidiki, central Macedonia, has been attracting serious interest, although investors appear cautious for now, given the previous failure in 2014.

The Holy Community of Mount Athos, which represents a cluster of historic monasteries and one of Orthodoxy's holiest sites in Halkidiki, northern Greece, has called on the left-led government to hold a referendum on the contentious name deal.

A 58-year-old man who had gone missing since October 30 in a region of the Sithonia peninsula in Halkidiki, northern Greece, was found dead on Thursday.

According to police, the man was fatally injured when the tractor he was operating overturned at a rural road near the village of Metagitsi.

The family of the farmer had alerted authorities on his disappearance on Tuesday. 

Three beachgoers died at sea on Tuesday and Monday in Attica, Thessaloniki and Halkidiki, authorities said.

More specifically, the body of a 76-year-old woman was recovered early on Tuesday morning in the coastal area of Rafina in eastern Attica.

On Monday afternoon, the body of a man was found in the sea off a beach in Peraia in Thessaloniki.

A 47-year-old Russian national who went missing on Thursday in the region of Aghios Mamas, near Nea Moudania in Halkidiki, northern Greece, was found dead on Friday, according to authorities.

His friends reported his disappearance after he did not return from the beach on Thursday.