Voters in Lombardy and Veneto have overwhelmingly supported nonbinding referendums seeking greater autonomy. Italy's wealthy north has long called for greater control over finances and security.

Italy's Lombardy and Campania regions are preparing on Tuesday to impose a nighttime curfew, the most restrictive anti-coronavirus measure seen in Italy since the country emerged from its tough ...

A picture taken on March 8, 2020 shows an empty road leading to Linate Airport in Milan, after millions of people were placed under forced quarantine in northern Italy. Background photo: Miguel Media/ ...

Lombardy has been overwhelmed by the pandemic, in part because of a poorly executed medical privatization program. Funeral parlor workers in Lombardy in March, when the affluent region was the ...