Czech crown jewels go on display for schoolchildren at Prague Castle

New rules aim to curb obstruction in Czech lower house

Justice and defence ministers to present general candidates to President Pavel

President Pavel discusses foreign trips and budget with PM Babiš

Czech crown jewels removed from Crown Chamber ahead of public display

Coalition yet to agree on Czech state budget for next year

Czech government sets criminal policy priorities for prosecutors

The Záviš Cross, one of the most precious medieval treasures in the Czech lands, has yielded two unexpected discoveries. Researchers have found a second wooden relic inside the cross and have also discovered that some of the gemstones were misiden...

National public broadcaster Czech Radio is testing a new system designed to warn the public of emergencies through radio broadcasting. The technology will eventually allow listeners to be alerted quickly about events such as floods, fires or power o...

Czech labour market could face shortage of half a million workers by 2045

Court orders Filip Turek (Motorists) to apologise to environmental group

Weather

Pavel: Pragmatic and values-based politics are not mutually exclusive

Czech Trinity Bank cleared to buy Prague’s Riverside Karlín complex

A community event in Brno-Kohoutovice featured a performance by 24-year-old slackliner Timotej Horák. Barefoot and wearing traditional folk costume, he walked above the heads of spectators along a 60-metre-long slackline stretched between the Grand...

President Pavel to meet PM Babiš for foreign policy talks

Czech crown jewels to go on display at Prague Castle

Prague hosts Central Europe’s first international Climate Week

Czech archer Horáčková wins World Cup Final on debut

Weather forecast

Kneblová takes silver in kayakcross World Cup final

Foreign Minister Macinka invited to Pavel-Babiš meeting

Czech government ready to cap electricity prices if costs rise further

STEM poll: ANO would win elections with 31.1 percent

Snarky Puppy opens autumn season of Brno JazzFest

Ancient Gospel fragment from Prague displayed in Italy

Czech climber killed by falling rocks in French Alps

Richard Tesařík, frontman of the iconic Czech band Yo Yo Band, died last Sunday at the age of 80. We look back at the band’s journey from its beginnings as a soul and gospel quartet to its reggae- and Latin-influenced sound and huge success in t...

Weather forecast

Opposition criticises Okamura’s meeting with Iranian ambassador

Thousands take part in traditional parade at Uherské Hradiště wine festival

European Heritage Days open 669 historic sites across Czechia

Survey: Most young Czechs plan to live independently by 30

Havel remembered at Prague’s Triangl festival

Czech lower house deputy speaker Barbora Urbanová visits Kyiv

On September 12, 1901, Libeň officially became the last district incorporated into Prague prior to the establishment of Czechoslovakia. Associated with writer Bohumil Hrabal, it has seen a number of historical events.

Siniaková wins US Open doubles title with Townsend

Prague court rehabilitates six dissidents detained under communist regime

Festival of young wine begins in Prague

Defence Minister Zůna cancels China trip over budget talks

Among events in Prague marking the imminent 90th anniversary of Václav Havel’s birth is an exhibition showcasing letters the then dissident sent his wife during a lengthy spell in a communist jail. The often philosophical correspondence was colle...

Dagmar Havlová to grant Václav Havel name licence to new entity

Czech population falls slightly, now close to 11 million

Dvůr Králové Safari Park announces first successful breed of African rock pythons

Weather forecast

How did people record their journeys four hundred years ago, and how do illustrators do it today? A new exhibition by the LUSTR illustration and comics festival at Prague’s Star Summer Palace brings together historical travel diaries, maps and dra...

Jordanian royal couple to visit Czech Republic

Labour minister defends plan to lower unemployment benefits

Slavia lose 3-2 to Lens in Champions League opener

Prague’s Industrial Palace to reopen after three-billion-crown reconstruction

Václav Havel Library to be renamed First Presidential Library

Petrol prices in Czechia highest since August 2022, expected to rise further

Weather forecast

Siniaková and Townsend reach US Open doubles final

Bears currently spotted in the Beskydy Mountains

Czech inflation rises to 1.9 percent in August

Petřín funicular to resume service after two-year reconstruction

Hop harvesting is coming to a close in the Czech Republic, and most growers say it has not been a good year. Prolonged drought and extreme heat have led to a poor harvest. Could climate change threaten the quality of one of the country's best-known ...

Czech man Pavel Hlava captured on video both the first and second planes hitting the World Trade Centre in New York on September 11, 2001. It was only some time later that the he realised the importance of his footage.

President Pavel to meet PM Babiš on foreign policy

Czech astronaut begins training for ISS mission

MPs override Senate veto on Building Act

Salmonid fish threatened by kidney disease in Czech rivers

State Agricultural Intervention Fund has not discontinued subsidy payments to Agrofert

Radio Q, Czechia’s first LGBTQ+ radio station, goes on air

National Cancer Centre opens at Motol Hospital

Ludwig van Beethoven, one of the greatest composers in history, had a strong connection to the Czech spa town of Teplice. He went there seeking refuge from Vienna’s aristocratic elite and a place to focus on his music. Although the baths could not...

Otto Jelinek, who was born in Prague but spent almost all of his life in Canada, has died at the age of 86. Jelinek was a world champion figure skater for Canada, became a government minister – and later in life served as his adopted country’s a...

A rare fragment containing part of the Gospel of Saint Mark has left Prague for the first time in almost 700 years. Brought to the Czech lands by Charles IV, the fragment has now returned to Italy, where it will be reunited with the other surviving ...

Weather forecast

High Court upholds acquittal of man accused of starting Bohemian Switzerland fire

Mortgage rates rise for sixth consecutive month

MPs reapprove controversial civil service law

Lower house overrides Senate veto on bill restricting president’s powers

State Office for Nuclear Safety: No chemical weapons found at former military site

Nosková falls to Sabalenka in US Open

Christian Democrats want vote of no-confidence in coalition

Commission confirms suspension of some subsidies for group founded by Babiš

Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, Jaromil Jireš’s famous 1970 film based on Vítězslav Nezval’s novel, premiered in a newly restored version at the Venice Film Festival on Monday. The poetic, dreamlike film, blending Gothic horror, surrealism a...

A survey in Šumava National Park has uncovered 200 barrels containing hazardous chemicals and around 1,000 tonnes of contaminated soil at a former military training area used by the Czechoslovak army. A clean-up operation is being launched that wil...

Minister: Contaminated soil, dangerous chemicals found in national park

Mozart and his love of Prague

Weather forecast

Five percent jobless rate recorded in Czechia last month

Health minister pushing for flu vaccinations in pharmacies

Government considering cuts to private-school subsidies

Mustard gas leaking into soil in Šumava National Park, MP says

This Tuesday marks the 185th anniversary of the birth of Antonín Dvořák, one of the Czech music greats. To mark the occasion, the Antonín Dvořák Museum is giving visitors a rare chance to see one of his original manuscripts, the autograph scor...

European Commission suspends Agrofert subsidy payments

Government rules out fuel price regulation for now

Weather forecast

Toxic substances leaking into soil in Šumava National Park

This unconventional race through the centre of the Czech capital attracts runners of all ability levels. This year, 9,500 runners from 98 countries took part, including elite athletes from the Czech Republic, Kenya and Ethiopia.

Czech tennis star Linda Nosková continues to go from the strength to strength. On Sunday, the 21-year-old Wimbledon champion beat Marta Kostyuk in dramatic style to reach the quarter-finals of another Grand Slam, the US Open, for the first time.

Minimum monthly wage to rise by 2,500 crowns

Police investigating football hooliganism on fan train

Government to debate capping profit margins on fuel amid rising prices

Czech industrial output up 3.1 percent in July

Brown coal mining rises despite planned phase-out

The 19th edition of the Dvořák Prague International Music Festival gets under way this Saturday at the Rudolfinum, bringing together leading orchestras, soloists and conductors from around the world. I spoke to festival director Jan Simon about th...

On September 6, 1926, Czechoslovak Radio connected with the wider world for the first time. From the Palace of the League of Nations in Geneva, it broadcast a speech by Foreign Minister Edvard Beneš, opening a new era of international broadcasts. T...

Babiš open to cutting proposed budget deficit

Nosková reaches US Open quarter-finals for the first time

Czech aristocrat Filip Sternberg dies at 69

Prague Archbishop says trust in Church damaged by misconduct allegations

Czech government to discuss minimum wage hike and OECD bid

Weather forecast

Babiš says government could reintroduce fuel price caps

Babiš: Czechia ready to back restrictions on Russian diplomats

Menšík drops out of US Open, Linda Nosková to face Marta Kostyuk on Sunday

Terezín exhibition showcases award-winning student artwork

Czech Television: Czech defence industry benefits from arms boom

Hana Zagorová, one of the country’s most popular singers and a nine-time winner of the Golden Nightingale award would have turned 80 on September 6. She died in August of 2022, shortly after her 75th birthday. She left behind an extensive musical...

German officials welcome first Sudeten German congress in Czechia

Weather forecast

Czech paracyclist Patrik Jahoda wins world time trial title

President Pavel leads Harley-Davidson ride through Prague

Most Czechs consider proposed 389-billion-crown budget deficit unacceptable

22-year-old Czech falls to her death in Austrian Alps

Public alerted after bear with cubs spotted near Vizovice