Patras

Two elderly siblings, an 84-year-old man and an 89-year-old woman, were found dead after a fire erupted in their home in Nafpaktos, western Greece. 

Their bodies were discovered on the bedroom floor by a caretaker who promptly alerted the Police and Fire Department.

Emergency traffic measures were implemented on the Patra-Athens highway on Saturday near Eliona, northern Peloponnese, due to anticipated hazardous weather conditions. 

Specifically, traffic towards Athens is being redirected for precautionary reasons, using a bidirectional flow on the Patras-bound lane, reported the Greek operating company Olympia Odos.

Higher toll fees at toll stations, in both major and auxiliary roads, increased on Greek roads as of January 1, 2024, following earlier announcements by concessionaires.

In Olympia Odos, the new fees implemented for vehicles affect the following highways: Patras-Athens, Antirrio-Ioannina, Corinth-Tripolis-Kalamata and the Lefktro-Sparta section, as well as the Rio-Antirrio bridge.

An earthquake rattled the city of Patra and other areas in the Achaia region, western Greece at approximately 11.25 a.m. on Sunday. 

According to the Geodynamic Institute of the National Observatory of Athens, the earthquake had a 3.2 magnitude and its epicenter was located 13 kilometers south of Kato Achaia town, Peloponnese.

An investigation is underway into the death of a 52-year-old man who suffered fatal injuries when he was hit by a suburban train outside Patras.

The accident happened near a bridge in the vicinity of the town of Kato Achea, south of Patras.

The man was transferred by ambulance to hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

The police on Thursday closed the Athens-bound lanes of the new Athens-Patras national highway to traffic at the 161st kilometre, in the Elaionas region, due to problems caused by the heavy rain in the area.

The old Athens-Patras national road has also been closed in both directions in the same area, while traffic has been diverted due to the bad weather at Metohi, Achaia.

Archaeologists Gioulika Christakopoulou of the Achaean Ephorate of Antiquities and Helene Simoni of the University of Patras have every reason to be happy these days, despite the massive workload facing them. They recently found out that a research proposal they had submitted last year to the University of Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies is getting the backing they want.

A mixed jury court in Patras has handed a man four life sentences after convicting him of the murder of four members of the same family in March 2022.

In a case that shocked the country, a 32-year-old father, a 37-year-old mother and their two children, aged 1.5 and 2.5, were found dead in their home in Andravida, a village in the Peloponnese region of Ilia.

The University of Patras awarded an honorary doctorate Monday night to Albert Bourla, CEO of pharma giant Pfizer, one of the key vaccine developers at the start of the Covid pandemic.

The Virtual Museum of Greek Immigration to Canada is the fruit of two years of research conducted by Immigrec, an interdisciplinary educational consortium made up of research teams from the universities of McGill, Simon Fraser and York in Canada and the University of Patras in Greece.