Subsidies protect households from high bills, but can double the time it takes for solar panels and other upgrades to pay for themselves.

Ukrainians living in Slovakia take part in Ukraine’s annual radio dictation and startups from around the world seek a place in Bratislava’s tech incubator.

MultiMedia Solutions employs just one person but makes €882,000 a year in profit from advertising sexual services.

The numbers came from the city’s parking app. A mayoral candidate discovered the leak.

Plastic bottles are also appearing more frequently again, four years after Slovakia introduced a deposit-return scheme.

Visitors walk 1.6 kilometres underground from Špania Dolina to a former mining settlement surrounded by abandoned mine dumps and turquoise-stained rocks.

The Hollywood legend’s mother left a small village in eastern Slovakia as a child. Decades later, relatives tried to bring him to her homeland, but the visit never happened.

Who knew that the future of the galaxy might depend on voting in Slovak regional elections?

Juraj Jakubisko’s banned film gets a restored screening, an Irish man is held over a hospital attack, and rescuers warn of avalanche risks in the Tatras.

Ladislav Lörinc won a commanding victory in Slovakia’s second-largest city after nearly two decades in local government.

Two trails in the Poľana mountains use audio guides to tell stories of the 1944 Slovak National Uprising.

Jozef Banáš apologises for publishing decades-old interviews with celebrated satirist but insists the book was worth releasing.

An electric BMW beat seven rivals, but motorists and the jury disagreed on second place.

More than 130 projects from 25 countries are competing for places, with artificial intelligence leading the way.

Voters kept an extremist at bay in Prešov, and Smer out of power in the capital. 

Košice Region saw one of the tightest races on Saturday.

Another attack on health-care workers, Slovak pop star Adéla appears on a major US TV show, and Petra Vlhová is returning to the Ski World Cup.

High pump prices put pressure on Robert Fico as governments across the region seek ways to ease the burden.

A round-up of uplifting stories from Slovakia.

Pajštún Castle is located near Bratislava.