Ljubljana – The newspaper Dnevnik says the government first said it would heed education workers’ calls for mandatory self-testing to be carried out at home at least for primary school children in years 1-5, but it then adopted a decree u...

Čatež ob Savi – The Slovenian teams competing in the European Team Chess Championship got off to a mixed start to the competition on Friday, with the men’s team defeating Ireland and the women’s team surprisingly losing to Belgium...

Ljubljana – The government and trade unions have reached a deal to raise wages for nursing staff in health care and social care under which some 80% of the staff will see their wages rise by 4-24%, Delo says on Saturday. It fears, however, that...

Ljubljana – As many as 3,666 new coronavirus cases were detected in Slovenia on Friday for a 39.8% positivity rate, slightly up from Thursday’s 37.6%, shows data released by the National Institute of Public Health (NIJZ) on Saturday. The ...

New York – The Cell, a theatre in New York, US, is hosting from Friday to Sunday Science in Theatre Festival, whose artistic director Tjaša Ferme, a Slovenian actress and producer, says brings science out of the closet offering a platform for ...

Paris – President Borut Pahor bestowed the Golden Order of Merit, one of the highest Slovenian state decorations, on Czech-French writer Milan Kundera in Paris on Saturday. Kundera was honoured for having raised his voice for Slovenia’s i...

Ljubljana – Five men charged with raping a 15-year-old girl last year appeared before the Ljubljana District Court on Friday for a pre-trial hearing, but the judge closed the proceedings and the trial that is to follow for the public to protect...

Ljubljana – As hospitals are under tremendous pressure from increasing numbers of Covid patients, they will be helped out by the Slovenian Armed Forces (SAF) and Red Cross volunteers. Talks are also under way with the country’s Civil Prot...

Koper – Commenting on the proposal to reduce funding of the judiciary in the next two years, Primorske Novice says that this brings nothing good. Not only that money is being cut for institutions that are supposed to make order, it is trust in ...

Maribor – The supervisory board of electricity distributor Elektro Maribor has dismissed chairman Boris Sovič, in what is the third major staffing decision in state-owned energy firms in two weeks. The supervisors said Sovič was dismissed due...