Hundreds of demonstrators waved “No Big Boats” flags as the first cruise ship since the pandemic made its way through the heart of Venice.

As Italy emerges from the pandemic, the Venetian city is launching the world’s only all-electric long-range vessel in hopes of addressing its pollution problem.

One of Italy’s most notorious mobsters-turned-informants has been released.

24 asylum-seekers from Africa and Asia who are working in vineyards.

Police in northern Italy have made three arrests in a cable car disaster that killed 14 people

Authorities said the car began sliding backward after a cable snapped and an emergency brake system failed. The incident killed 14 people, and prosecutors are looking into possible charges.

A cable apparently snapped and sent the car plunging to the ground, leaving one lone survivor -- a child -- badly injured and in the hospital.

Cable car was taking visitors to a northern Italian mountaintop view.

After more than 70 years, the village of Curon recently resurfaced from Lake Resi when water was temporarily drained for maintenance.

SINKING CITY: Tourists enjoy scenic gondola rides and views of the Grand Canal in Venice as Italy ditches quarantine for some European visitors.

Archaeologists in Italy uncovered fossilized remains of Neanderthals in a cave near Rome.

Ethan and Leah Elder say their son Finnegan, 21, has been deeply mischaracterized after being sentenced to life in prison for the fatal stabbing of an Italian police officer.

Human traffickers exploited calm seas, warm weather to launch multiple vessels.

A new project aims to create a flexible floor, giving tourists a picture of how the Colosseum would have looked when gladiators fought there.

Italy's Leaning Tower of Pisa reopened to tourists on Saturday, almost six months after closing amid the pandemic.

A jury in Rome will soon be weighing the fate of two young American men, charged with slaying an Italian police officer while they were on vacation in 2019

Italian rapper Fedez has received a wave of public support after going public.

The Colosseum reopened for business, as Italy moves into a "yellow zone," but there are very few tourists.

More than 100 people, including children, were rescued from the vessel struggling in massive waves, according to the coast guard.

Italian authorities have placed a half-dozen public hospital officials under investigation for abuse of office after they allegedly allowed a 67-year-old to get a total of 583,000 euros (about $650,000) in salary over 15 years without ever working

Italian police say they have recovered a 1st century Roman statue that was stolen from an archaeological site in 2011 and found in a Belgian antiques shop by two off-duty Italian art squad police officers

Activists opposed to cruise ships in Venice want to meet with Italian government

Italian journalists and lawmakers are protesting the wiretapping of reporters' phone calls during Italian investigations into Libya-based migrant traffickers

One cruise ship is still able to ply its trade.

Exactly a year since Italy became the first country in the world to lock down, all restaurants, bars, schools and nonessential stores will close on Monday through Easter.

Locals sweep up piles of ash after a weekend eruption of Sicily’s Mount Etna, Europe’s most active volcano and also the continent’s largest.

Italy has paid tribute to its ambassador to Congo and his bodyguard who were killed in an attack on a U.N. convoy

Independent human rights experts who work with the United Nations say Italy failed to protect the “right to life” of over 200 migrants who died when the boat they were on sank in the Mediterranean Sea in October 2013

Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte has gone to the presidential palace to offer his resignation after a key ally yanked his support from his government

Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte has won a crucial vote in Parliament’s lower house after a coalition defector’s lawmakers abstained in the balloting

The autonomous province of South Tyrol with its German-speaking majority is flouting Rome’s decision to put it under partial lockdown starting Sunday

Former Italian Premier Matteo Renzi is testing his already low popularity by provoking a political crisis that could bring down the government at yet another critical juncture in the fight against the pandemic

A large trial has opened in southern Italy against the ‘ndrangheta crime syndicate, arguably the world’s richest criminal organization that quietly amassed power in Italy as the Sicilian Mafia lost its influence

A giant sinkhole has opened in the parking lot of a Naples, Italy hospital

The area surrounding the Duomo cathedral in Italy was covered in nearly 6 inches of snow.

Police in Italy are enforcing new COVID-19 travel restrictions aimed at limiting far-flung families from gathering over Christmas

Italy says 18 Sicily-based fisherman, who were seized in September by Libyan authorities in a fishing dispute, have been freed

Italy is reclaiming a record that nobody wants: The most coronavirus deaths in Europe

Firefighters conducted more than 175 rescue operations following days of severe weather.

The resorts are spraying snow on closed pistes as they are waiting for the government to decide whether they should open during the coronavirus pandemic.

Italian police has issued arrest warrants against six current and former managers of Italy’s main private highway operator as part of investigations into the 2018 collapse of a bridge collapse that killed 43 people

Italy’s leader has imposed at least a month of new COVID-19 restrictions

A trial has opened in the Vatican’s criminal tribunal for two priests, one accused of sexually abusing an altar boy in the Vatican’s youth seminary and the other of covering it up

The waterspout uprooted trees and caused minor damage to vehicles and buildings in Salerno.

Italians turned out in droves to vote to reduce the number of lawmakers by a third, results showed Monday, despite the coronavirus pandemic and strict hygiene protocols at the polls

Hundreds of people in Italy have joined a funeral procession for a young Black man whose brutal beating death has shaken up the country and drawn condemnation from the highest levels of government

She was wanted for trying to recruit people to join Islamic State terror group.

Army members delivered new desks as most schools in Italy prepare to open in September.

Three people suffered minor injuries in the accident.