PALERMO, Italy — Here is a quick quiz for the opera aficionado. The biggest opera house in Italy is in Milan, Venice or Palermo? Yes, Milan’s La Scala may have more seats, and La Fenice in la Venezia ...

Palermo's Corso Vittorio Emmanuele was recently turned into a street made for bicycles and pedestrians. (Photos by Cain Burdeau/CNS) PALERMO, Sicily (CN) — The “City of the Mafia”? Yes and no. But in ...

A public art campaign in Palermo, Sicily, is reminding residents of the city’s grim Mafia years, and is encouraging them to resist creeping organized crime influence. By James Imam PALERMO, Sicily — ...

ROME – A Palermo prosecutor who was allegedly threatened with assassination by the Mafia boss who ran the Sicilian Cosa Nostra says the mobster might still be calling the shots from prison. Anti-Mafia ...

The Carabinieri had been bugging senior godfathers in the criminal network - many of whom had just been released from prison - X Credit: Carabinieri Palermo Mafia godfathers in Sicily have been caught ...

When Italian photographer Letizia Battaglia passed away on April 13, 2022, the biggest shock among those of us who have written about her was that she didn’t die at the hands of the Mafia. For nearly ...

When Italian photographer Letizia Battaglia passed away on April 13, 2022, the biggest shock among those of us who have written about her was that she didn’t die at the hands of the Mafia. For nearly ...

ROME (AP) — Palermo’s chief prosecutor says a crime clan based in Cosa Nostra’s Corleone stronghold discussed assassinating the interior minister because they blame him for exceptionally tough prison ...

A Pax Mafiosa has settled over Sicily. Sicilians are defying the Mafia in a movement fueled by the generation that came of age in the 1980s, when waves of bloody public assassinations of prosecutors, ...

A major operation by Trapani police led to 27 arrests for drug trafficking conspiracy.