Pau – Slovenian canoeists Luka Božič and Benjamin Savšek bagged the second and third places in a white water slalom World Cup event in Pau, France, on Sunday. France’s Denis Gargaud Chanut won the race. The two best Slovenian canoeists...

Ljubljana – Icelandic President Gudni Thorlacius Johannesson will start a two-day official visit to Slovenia on Sunday. The situation in Ukraine, food and energy security, Western Balkans, and EU enlargement will top the agenda. Other topics Jo...

Kranjska Gora/Koper/Radlje ob Dravi/Slovenska Bistrica – Storms caused problems in some parts of Slovenia on Saturday afternoon, especially in the Štajerska region in the north-east. Buildings were flooded, winds tore down trees and there was ...

Ljubljana – Lawyer Nataša Pirc Musar and Anže Logar, the former foreign minister, are in the lead in a presidential opinion poll released by commercial broadcaster POP TV, polling at 28.7% and 25.4%, respectively. Marta Kos, the former diplom...

Ljubljana – President Borut Pahor and his Icelandic counterpart Gudni Thorlacius Johannesson called for a diplomatic solution to the Ukraine crisis as they met in Ljubljana on Saturday. They highlighted Slovenia’s important role in the We...

Ljubljana – The Slovenian insurance industry’s total gross premiums written in 2021 reached almost EUR 2.5 billion, up 2.5% over 2020, Statistics Office figures show. As much as EUR 1.9 billion came from physical persons and the remaining...

Ljubljana – Slovenia won against Cameroon (3:0) in their first match at the Volleyball Men’s World Championship in Ljubljana on Friday. In a vibrant atmosphere of some 7,000 spectators, Slovenia justified their role as favourites and defe...

Ljubljana – Slovenian tourism is currently successfully recovering after the Covid-19 pandemic but there are many uncertainties about the autumn and winter ahead, Maja Pak, the head of the Slovenian Tourism Board (STO), told the STA. Still, the...

Ljubljana – After a drop of 30% in the number of newly diagnosed cancers in the first wave of the Covid epidemic in the spring of 2020, the second and third waves had a smaller impact on these trends, the Ljubljana Institute of Oncology told th...

Novo Mesto – Author Franci Novak received the award for the best collection of short stories at the Novo Mesto Short festival on Friday evening. He won the accolade for his work Obvoz (Detour). Published by LUD Literatura last year, Obvoz is a ...