Milan's mayor says he will not step down in the face of a sweeping probe into the city’s massive urban development over the last two decades.

Italian melodrama’s official recognition as a global cultural treasure is getting trumpeted with La Scala’s season premiere of Verdi’s “Don Carlo.”.

Milan’s famed La Scala opera house has announced the celebration of next season’s gala premiere with the Russian opera “Boris Godunov.”.

Italy's center-left forces, led by Democrats, are triumphing or clinching runoff slots in Milan and other big city mayoral elections, according to partial vote counts after two days of balloting.

Millions of people are voting in Italy for new mayors including in the nation's main cities.

Italian firefighters are battling a high-rise blaze in Milan that spread rapidly through a 20-story residential building.

Paris' gay Pride parade has resumed to the joy of participants after the pandemic meant no such coming together last year.