
Additional Piraeus Ferry Service Sought for Leros
In an important parliamentary intervention to the Ministry of Shipping and Island Policy, Manos Konsolas proceeded to strengthen and upgrade the ferry connection of Leros.

Τα δημοσιεύματα της περιόδου, ομαδοποιημένα ανά ημέρα.

In an important parliamentary intervention to the Ministry of Shipping and Island Policy, Manos Konsolas proceeded to strengthen and upgrade the ferry connection of Leros.

1. We would like to inform you that the parking of all vehicles is prohibited in the yard of the Tourist Boat Anchorage in Alinda.

Evangelos Asvestas spoke to Leros News about the prime minister's visit, island projects, hospital pressures and closer contact between residents and the municipality.

Leros Municipal Committee unanimously approved a EUR 2.09 million funding application covering nine studies and two years of technical support.

In Lakki of Leros, where one of the most special sets of buildings of Italian architecture and of the Interwar era is preserved, the Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, visited the historic "Leros Hotel", which was restored by the Ministry of Culture and granted to The Municipality of Leros.

On Sunday, August 2, 2026, the historic "Alindia 2026" sailing races will take place on the beach of Alindia, continuing an institution that started in 1907.

Firefighters, municipal crews, volunteers and residents responded to an early-morning fire near Mount Tsigouna on Leros, supported by a helicopter.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis visited Leros to inspect the new Alinda tourist mooring, hospital improvements, Lakki port and other island projects.

Leros Municipal Committee was called to consider funding applications for strategic studies and a pedestrian route linking the reception centre with Lepida seafront.

Two general practitioners said understaffing at Leros Hospital must not be confused with absence and called for accurate reporting of emergency department cover.

The doctor responsible for Leros Hospital's artificial kidney unit rejected claims that he had been absent and said official records showed continuous on-call duty.

About the course of the tourist season, the infrastructure projects and the strong ties of the island with Rhodes, he spoke on the radio station Real Voice 99.5 and on the show "First Morning" with Manolis Papazoglou, the well-known businessman of Leros,Fotis Giannakos.

Xenia Soulou, whose father is from Leros, scored 18,400 points in Greece's 2026 national examinations and secured her first-choice dentistry place.

Mayor Timotheos Kottakis outlined a EUR 936,000 restoration plan for the Xerokampos waste site and two rural road projects worth about EUR 1.5 million.

The doctors' union said Leros Hospital lacked several critical specialists at the height of summer and called for permanent recruitment across island health services.

Expectant mothers on Leros were invited to apply for baby kits through a programme supporting newborn children and families.

The Hellenic Folklore Ensemble from Canada was to join a two-night dance event exploring tradition and the modern world on Leros.

ANNOUNCEMENT – On the occasion of yesterday's fire in the Tsigouna area, citizens are kindly requested not to deposit waste in the bins until the afternoon hours, as the collection will be carried out by the Municipality after the afternoon.

Firefighters, volunteers, residents and aerial crews worked to contain a fire near the former landfill on Mount Tsigouna on Leros.

Dodecanese MP Manos Konsolas proposed state support for island water services facing drought, high desalination costs, debt and staffing shortages.

Author Christos Antoniadis was to present Small Seas, a book about Leros and a chance discovery that fractures history, at the municipal library.

The historic buildings of Leros on the cover of an important new international volume on the ethics of cultural heritage. His four-year research projectDr. Andreas Pantazatouif. Cambridge University professor on Leros, produces the first study on an ethical approach to tangible and intangible cultural heritage. The photo from the old psychiatric hospital of Leros, taken byDr. A. Fantastic, now graces its coverThe Routledge Handbook of Heritage Ethics, an important international volume published in April 2026. This image was chosen by the book's editors to represent the moral relationship that people build with what they inherit from the past.

The Autonomous Directorate of Civil Protection & Climate Crisis of the South Aegean Region informs thaton 15-7-2026, according to the Daily Fire Risk Forecast Map drawn up by the Planning and Emergency Response Directorate of the General Secretariat of Civil Protection, the risk of fires in the South Aegean Region -P.E. Kalymnos & P.E. Mrit isvery high (Risk Category 4)and all the competent services are in a state of heightened alertness.

INVITATION - We invite you on Saturday 18/07/2026 at 21:00 at the beach of Gourna, to the "Alonari - Agroti Festival", organised by The Municipality of Leros with a traditional Leros feast, free wine and traditional snacks. With the participation of the Cultural Beautification Association "Our Lady of the Castle".

Piraeus port authorities published Blue Star Ferries schedules linking the mainland with Leros and other Dodecanese islands from 13 to 19 July.