Court confirms hospital not responsible for shooting of patient

Record period of insufficient soil moisture seen in Czechia

Interior minister says more police, fire officers to be hired in 2027

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If Pigeons Turned to Gold put forward as Czech submission for Oscar

Exhibition of Czech crown jewels to open on September 19

Archaeologists uncover 6,500-year-old ritual site in central Bohemia

Five large circus tents, caravans, and dozens of artists from the Czech Republic and abroad. That is what Letná Park in Prague currently looks like, as it hosts Letní Letná, the largest Czech festival of contemporary circus and theater. The 23rd ...

Senate Constitutional Committee says proposed change to presidential powers is unconstitutional

NASA selects Czech photographer’s image Astronomy Picture of the Day

Fire risk warning lifted across Czechia

Prague Zoo celebrated World Elephant Day on Saturday, giving visitors a chance to learn more about the daily process of caring for the elephants and enjoy a feeding and bathing session. Two of the elephants are expecting young. Janita is expected to...

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Czechia facing shortage of social care workers

President hosting environmental meeting at Lány

Government approves closure of Eurocentres

Lower house to debate freeze on politicians’ salaries

Finance minister debating budget allocations for 2027 with cabinet ministers

Average rents increased, but became cheaper in most regional capitals

President Pavel signs CZK 50,000 increase in parental allowance to CZK 400,000

Velvet Blues, a collection of 20th century stories by Czech and Slovak Romany writers, is set to be presented at October’s Frankfurt Book Fair, where this year Czechia will be guest of honour. I discussed the anthology with Karolína Ryvolová of ...

Oscar-winning director Jan Svěrák’s comedy Pět švestek (Five Plums) will be released in cinemas in the United Kingdom this autumn under the title What a Way to Go. It is only the fourth Czech film in the 30 years since the Czech Republic beca...

Renewed National Coalition Against Drought to be led by Prime Minister Babiš

Radar and command-systems manufacturer Retia Pardubice reports record profit

Food prices may continue falling for several more months, analysts estimate

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Customs officers discover nearly 10 kilograms of drugs in the Teplice area and detain two people

The Czech Republic can expect showers and thunderstorms this week, but no extreme temperatures

Students will once again pay more for apartment rentals

If these two stop-motion puppet characters get their hands on something, you can be pretty sure it will go wrong. Pat and Mat, Czechia’s famously clumsy handymen, have been entertaining audiences for five decades, and their slapstick adventures ha...

State planning PPP tender for railway to Prague Airport

Czech government to scrap 20-year-old EU information strategy

Wild boars are increasingly moving into urban areas across the Czech Republic. Once largely confined to forests, they are now appearing in city parks, gardens and residential neighbourhoods,scavenging for food.    

Regions to lose state funding for lower-class road repairs

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PM confirms four billion crowns for measures to fight drought next year

Six cottages destroyed by fire in Brno

Czech tourist dies on Mount Babia Gora

Temperature records broken at 30 percent of Czech weather stations

Drought forces Czech fish farmers to take emergency measures

The biggest star of his time, a wild performer who had girls falling at his feet, a Czech rock’n’roll king with a tragic fate. All of this is associated with the name Miki Volek, the once-famous singer who died alone and forgotten on August 14, ...

Five years ago, the Mělník III power plant, once the largest coal-fired unit in the Czech Republic, ceased operation. Commissioned in 1981, it was a mainstay of the country’s energy system for decades. Its closure in 2021 paved the way for a maj...

All Czech tourists evacuated from Omiš fire have returned to accommodation

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Frosty night in the mountain regions before another hot day

Supermarket price war helps keep food prices down

Czech hospitals warn of critically low blood supplies, appeal to donors

Czech government to debate drought measures on Monday

Olomouc Archdiocese cancels pilgrimage for LGBT+ Catholics following hate mail

Three highest levels of drought affect 88 percent of Czechia

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Around 300 Czech citizens evacuated due to fire near Omiš, Croatia

Czech Army recruits 2,997 soldiers this year, Babiš guarantees 2% of GDP in funding

Banks provided CZK 40.4 billion in mortgages in July, 7% more than last year

Experts: Scrapping ninth grade of primary school would worsen students’ educational outcomes

This year’s edition of the legendary Trutnoff Open Air music festival is dedicated to Václav Havel, marking what would have been his 90th birthday. Even when Havel was president, he was known simply as “the tribal chief” at the rock festival,...

Seemanová wins third European 200m freestyle title

Siniaková wins 38th doubles title in Toronto

Conservationists have published the results of their traditional winter survey of large carnivores along the Czech-Slovak border. Trackers covered nearly 200 routes ranging from five to 25 kilometres, confirming the presence of wolves, lynx and bear...

Burned synagogues and smashed shop windows are some of the best-known images of Nazi persecution of Jews. But the Nazis also systematically confiscated Jewish books, hoping to build a huge collection that could be used to provide a ‘scientific’ ...

Czech government to spend four billion crowns on drought measures

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This week’s solar eclipse and the Perseid meteor shower once again drew Czechs outside to look at the sky. They also highlighted something unusual about the country: Czechia has one of the densest networks of public observatories and planetariums ...

Study: Age discrimination in Czech job market starts as early as 40

Siniaková reaches doubles final in Toronto, eyes 38th career title

Low river levels force 90 percent of small hydropower plants in Czechia to stop

Czech Culture Ministry to provide CZK 9 million for Lidice children’s memorial restoration

Czechia faces wildfire risk nationwide as drought and heat continue

Drying wells and declining groundwater levels are affecting an increasing number of communities across Czechia. In some areas water utilities and fire crews have had to deliver drinking water to villages where inhabitants are dependent on their own ...

Trutnoff Open Air festival begins, commemorating Václav Havel’s 90th birthday

People across Czechia observed a partial solar eclipse, next similar event in 50 years

Shortage of feed caused by drought forces livestock farmers to sell cattle

Senate committee backs reduction in maximum number of troops on NATO’s eastern flank

Hop growers estimate harvest will be one-fifth lower, quality will also be worse

Prosecutor charges three people with investment fraud causing damage of CZK 1.1 billion

Firefighters are responding to a forest fire near Břeclav, a munitions factory once exploded there

Due to drought and heat, Czech farmers are looking for new crops that can better withstand such conditions. Increasingly, they are opting for sunflowers instead of rapeseed. In the eastern parts of the country there have even been attempts to grow f...

It was built as a secret Soviet command post during the Cold War and hidden from the public for decades. Now the Jasyr bunker in the Karlovy Vary region in northwest Bohemia is open to visitors, thanks to a group of enthusiasts who have spent years ...

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Justice Minister confirms US request to extradite four Mexicans, two have already agreed to extradition

Number of self-employed people rose by 23,000 to 1.202 million in the first half of the year

Czechia recording driest year since 1961

Partial solar eclipse to coincide with Perseid meteor shower

One of the challenges of living abroad is gradually losing contact with your native language, and this can be even more difficult for children of expats. Various associations can therefore serve as a bridge to their native language and fellow countr...

Court rehabilitates witness to Číhošť miracle

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The end-of-summer blues is setting upon the citizens of Prague. Festival season is over, the holidays are coming to an end, but there are still films and plays aplenty! Here are our top tips to fill your end-of-summer programme in Prague.

Public stress test of eDoklady digital ID app to take place Thursday

Inflation rises to 1.7% in July

Charles University is building its largest science centre in modern history. The nearly five-and-a-half-billion-crown Biocenter is due to open in Prague in just a few years, and the university is now looking for a world-renowned scientist to lead it...

Scientists from Brno University of Technology are preparing to observe Wednesday’s total solar eclipse from Iceland and Spain. Five teams equipped with cameras, dozens of lenses and special filters will have just two minutes to collect crucial ima...

Vegetation fire tackled in Prague's Letná Park

Prague undertaking CZK 2 billion reconstruction of Karlín barracks

Drought in the Czech Republic reaches critical levels

Demolition of fire-damaged Zlín building continues

Military police proposes charges in Defense Ministry public procurement case

Brno’s unique language variety, known as Hantec, has been added to the South Moravian Region’s list of traditional folk culture. It developed among the city’s lower classes in the 19th century and has survived in some everyday expressions. Its...

The European champions in the youth sailing class took place on Lake Lipno, which provided challenging conditions for the competitors. The overall standings were ultimately decided by the very last race. The best Czech crew, Jakub Lojka and Dominik ...

Prominent Czech writer Vladimír Páral dies at 94

Average mortgage rate hits two-year high

Eight people killed on Czech roads over weekend

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The European Union plans to build a small network of huge AI computing centres as part of its effort to catch up with the United States and China. Czechia wants one of them to be built on the outskirts of Prague, where České Radiokomunikace is alr...

Meteorologist issue heat warning for Monday

Czech study warns of more dangerous heat extremes

Unemployment rises to 5 percent in July

Smartwings flight to Tel Aviv returns to Prague due to engine problem

Ministry faces objections to IVF access for single women

Michal Rada wins junior world title in 400m hurdles

Czech cultural groups call for withdrawal of new state cultural policy

Two groups of Czech tourists rescued by helicopters in the Alps

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Salač wins British Grand Prix in Moto2, first Czech World Championship victory in 16 years

Czech Senate flies Belarusian flag to mark 2020 presidential election

Partial solar eclipse to be visible in Czechia on Wednesday

Satoranský named Czech basketball player of the year for ninth time

Day of Jewish Monuments opened more than 60 synagogues and cemeteries

Proměny is not only the title of one of Čechomor's best-known songs, but also the name of the band's landmark album, released 25 years ago. To mark the anniversary, today's Sunday Music Show is dedicated to Čechomor and their most successful albu...

Milena Jesenská is known around the world primarily through Franz Kafka's letters to her. Yet her own life story is just as compelling: a pioneering journalist who stood up to Nazism and paid for it with her life in the Ravensbrück concentration c...

Czech goalkeeper Radek Vítek joins Middlesbrough from Manchester United