The Italian government announced Wednesday it has approved the construction of a bridge between its mainland and the island ...

But for millennia, generations of travelers have required a boat to cross Messina Strait separating Sicily and the mainland.

MILAN (AP) — A long-delayed and debated bridge linking the Italian mainland with Sicily cleared a major hurdle Wednesday, ...

Thousands of people have marched in Messina, Sicily, to protest a government plan to build a bridge connecting the Italian ...

Italy has finally approved a €13.5bn (£12bn) plan to build the world’s longest suspension bridge from the mainland to Sicily ...

The government says the road and rail link will create jobs and lift the region’s economy, but critics are concerned about ...

Travelers wishing to reach the island of Sicily from mainland Italy have only one option: to cross the Strait of Messina by ...

Other parts of Italy are also experiencing drought, but only Sicily’s is considered “extreme,” the highest level, according to the Italian National Institute for Environmental Protection and ...

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The Sicily region's agriculture-meteorological information service, SIAS, reported that a temperature of 48.8 degrees Celsius (119.84 degrees Fahrenheit) was reached at the island's Syracuse station.