Ljubljana – The national railway operator Slovenske Železnice (SŽ) has welcomed ten new double-decker trains to its fleet. Infrastructure Minister Jernej Vrtovec and SŽ director Dušan Mes took a symbolic first ride to Litija on Friday, agre...

Brdo pri Kranju – The coalition leaders will meet in Brdo pri Kranju on Friday to discuss possible projects that could still be carried out by the end of the government’s term. Prime Minister Janez Janša has also invited coalition MP and...

Ljubljana – Commenting on what is sees as the latest attack on RTV Slovenija, the newspaper Dnevnik argues on Friday that a shakedown at the public broadcaster is getting more and more aggressive. Civil society’s petition in support of a ...

Ljubljana – Slovenia logged 6,918 new coronavirus infections on Thursday as cases kept climbing and six more Covid-19 patients died, while hospital figures remain stable, show the latest official data. According to the government, 524 Covid pat...

Ljubljana – The cargo division of the Slovenian rail operator Slovenske Železnice, SŽ-Tovorni Promet, and Czech EP Logistics International (EPLI) finalised their strategic partnership agreement on Friday to expand to foreign markets under a j...

Šoštanj/Velenje/Ljubljana – The Šalek Valley, the only active coal region in the country, home to the TEŠ coal-fired power station and a coal mine, welcomed on Friday the government’s strategy to phase out coal for electricity product...

Ljubljana – Prime Minister Janez Janša made another appearance before the opposition-sponsored parliamentary inquiry examining the government’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic on Friday. He discussed the verification of rapid antigen t...

Ljubljana – Environment Minister Andrej Vizjak discussed on Friday with his Alpine Convention counterparts the modal shift to rail and climate policy based on the premises prepared by the Swiss presidency of the convention. They agreed that coo...

Klagenfurt – Slovenian snowboarder Tim Mastnak finished second in the men’s World Cup parallel slalom event in Austria’s Simonhöhe on Friday, conceding to Stefan Baumeister of Germany in the finals by 0.1 of a second. Italy’s...

Ljubljana – Vaccination against Covid-19 significantly reduces the risk of being hospitalised due to Covid-19, shows research in which Slovenian epidemiologists studied the effectiveness of vaccination against severe Covid-19 using real-world d...