https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Italy in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed A tram derailed and smashed into a building in Milan on Friday, killing two people and injuring at least 38 others, police told AFP. https://www.thelocal.it/20260227/one-killed-and-around-20-injured-as-tram-derails-in-milan Fri, 27 Feb 2026 17:30:44 +0100 one-killed-and-around-20-injured-as-tram-derails-in-milan Four people were injured and around 100 were stranded atop a mountain in northwest Italy on Tuesday after a cable car accident, authorities said. https://www.thelocal.it/20251230/four-hurt-100-stranded-after-italy-cable-car-accident Tue, 30 Dec 2025 17:04:45 +0100 four-hurt-100-stranded-after-italy-cable-car-accident The deadly collapse of a medieval tower in Rome has made global headlines, but for trade unions, it is simply the latest of many workplace tragedies in Italy. https://www.thelocal.it/20251105/medieval-tower-collapse-adds-to-italys-workplace-toll Wed, 05 Nov 2025 11:39:03 +0100 medieval-tower-collapse-adds-to-italys-workplace-toll Four years after a cable car crash in northern Italy left 14 people dead, an Italian court has approved plea bargains that would see the main defendants avoid prison. https://www.thelocal.it/20250920/italian-cable-car-managers-set-to-avoid-jail-over-deadly-crash Sat, 20 Sep 2025 09:52:00 +0200 italian-cable-car-managers-set-to-avoid-jail-over-deadly-crash Three people were injured on Wednesday after a freight train crashed into a stationary passenger train near Trento, northern Italy, with authorities warning of delays and cancellations on both high-speed and regional lines. https://www.thelocal.it/20250820/three-injured-after-train-crash-in-northern-italy Wed, 20 Aug 2025 14:13:34 +0200 three-injured-after-train-crash-in-northern-italy Four people, including two British nationals, died on Thursday after a cable car crashed to the ground near the southern Italian city of Naples. https://www.thelocal.it/20250417/latest-four-dead-after-cable-car-crash-in-italy Thu, 17 Apr 2025 22:40:41 +0200 latest-four-dead-after-cable-car-crash-in-italy A 54-year-old Scottish tourist was gravely injured after a three-story building in Rome’s Monteverde district collapsed following an explosion on Sunday morning, Italian media reported. https://www.thelocal.it/20250324/scottish-tourist-gravely-injured-after-building-explosion-in-rome Mon, 24 Mar 2025 10:09:30 +0100 scottish-tourist-gravely-injured-after-building-explosion-in-rome Firefighters in the southern city of Bari, Puglia, pulled a 74-year-old Italian woman alive from the rubble of a collapsed five-storey building following a gruelling 24-hour rescue operation. https://www.thelocal.it/20250307/italian-woman-pulled-alive-from-rubble-after-bari-building-collapse Fri, 07 Mar 2025 11:19:47 +0100 italian-woman-pulled-alive-from-rubble-after-bari-building-collapse The crewman on watch duty the night that the Bayesian yacht sank off Sicily's coast, killing British tech mogul Mike Lynch and six others, said he sounded an alarm and woke the captain, Italian media reported on Sunday. https://www.thelocal.it/20240901/sicily-yacht-disaster-sailor-says-sounded-alert Sun, 01 Sep 2024 13:15:28 +0200 sicily-yacht-disaster-sailor-says-sounded-alert A formal investigation into the deadly sinking of UK tech tycoon Mike Lynch's yacht widened to include two crew members in addition to the captain, media reports said on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20240828/captain-and-two-crew-members-under-investigation-over-sicily-yacht-sinking Wed, 28 Aug 2024 15:46:14 +0200 captain-and-two-crew-members-under-investigation-over-sicily-yacht-sinking The captain of a luxury yacht that sank off Sicily's coast last week, killing UK tech tycoon Mike Lynch and six others, was being investigated in a probe for potential manslaughter, reports said on Monday. https://www.thelocal.it/20240826/captain-investigated-over-sicily-yacht-sinking Mon, 26 Aug 2024 13:29:57 +0200 captain-investigated-over-sicily-yacht-sinking Sicilian prosecutors said Saturday they were investigating potential crimes of negligent shipwreck and manslaughter after a superyacht sank killing seven people, including UK tech tycoon Mike Lynch. https://www.thelocal.it/20240824/sicily-prosecutors-open-manslaughter-probe-after-yacht-sinking Sat, 24 Aug 2024 14:40:32 +0200 sicily-prosecutors-open-manslaughter-probe-after-yacht-sinking The collapse of a building's balcony in Naples’ Scampia district killed two people and injured 13 others, including seven children, on Monday evening. https://www.thelocal.it/20240723/two-dead-13-injured-in-balcony-collapse-in-naples Tue, 23 Jul 2024 11:59:00 +0200 two-dead-13-injured-in-balcony-collapse-in-naples Following reports of yet another deadly workplace accident in Italy, does the country really perform worse than its European neighbours when it comes to worker safety? https://www.thelocal.it/20240508/are-italys-workplaces-more-dangerous-than-elsewhere-in-europe Wed, 08 May 2024 12:48:27 +0200 are-italys-workplaces-more-dangerous-than-elsewhere-in-europe An explosion at an Italian hydroelectric power plant near Bologna on Tuesday afternoon killed at least three people and left four missing, officials said. https://www.thelocal.it/20240410/rescuers-seek-four-missing-after-deadly-italy-power-plant-blast Wed, 10 Apr 2024 14:55:00 +0200 rescuers-seek-four-missing-after-deadly-italy-power-plant-blast A chasm opened up in a road in Naples' Vomero district early on Wednesday, swallowing two cars with people inside. https://www.thelocal.it/20240221/giant-sinkhole-swallows-two-cars-in-naples Wed, 21 Feb 2024 13:09:59 +0100 giant-sinkhole-swallows-two-cars-in-naples Rescue teams Saturday worked to recover the body of a fifth person killed by the collapse of a supermarket under construction in Florence, as the Tuscan city held a day of mourning. https://www.thelocal.it/20240218/death-toll-at-florence-building-site-rises-to-five Sun, 18 Feb 2024 10:14:37 +0100 death-toll-at-florence-building-site-rises-to-five Public prosecutors in Florence have launched an investigation into a building site accident that caused the deaths of at least three workers on Friday morning. https://www.thelocal.it/20240216/italy-opens-investigation-after-florence-building-site-collapse-kills-three Fri, 16 Feb 2024 16:49:35 +0100 italy-opens-investigation-after-florence-building-site-collapse-kills-three Two trains crashed into each other at low speed in northern Italy late on Sunday, injuring at least 17 people, none seriously, firefighters and the train operator said. https://www.thelocal.it/20231211/train-crash-in-northern-italy-injures-17-passengers Mon, 11 Dec 2023 10:29:00 +0100 train-crash-in-northern-italy-injures-17-passengers Italy's rail staff were to strike for eight hours on Thursday, November 30th, in a protest over safety after a fatal train crash in Calabria this week. https://www.thelocal.it/20231130/strike-italy-hit-by-protests-on-thursday-over-fatal-train-crash Thu, 30 Nov 2023 10:16:18 +0100 strike-italy-hit-by-protests-on-thursday-over-fatal-train-crash