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The Czech town of Most will get a natural burial ground, where cremated ashes will be placed at the roots of trees. The idea was put forward by local resident Eva Karabasilová, who submitted the project to the city hall's participatory budg

The town of Vysoké Mýto is beginning to redesign its streets now that through traffic has been diverted onto the new motorway bypass. The first project on the list is the junction of Javornická and Litomyšlská streets, which will be raised,

A dispute has broken out in Valtice, part of the popular Lednice-Valtice Complex, between the town hall and residents of four houses on Mikulovská Street. Authorities decided to expand and renovate an existing car park in the town centre, b

On the D1 motorway in the Vysočina region, luggage containing important documents fell out of a moving car belonging to an Israeli family — a story with an unexpectedly happy ending, as recounted by traffic police spokeswoman Dana Čírtková.

A train collided with a car near the village of Dobřichovice in the Central Bohemian Region, on the rail line connecting Beroun and Prague's main railway station.According to a spokesperson for the Central Bohemian Regional Police, the acci

Courts in Pardubice have rejected years of complaints from local businessman Holeček over noise from a multi-purpose sports ground in Na Špici park. According to the city hall, the final ruling was issued by the regional appellate court, an

Last week the Czech Army graduated nearly a thousand new reservists — 982 successful graduates completed a month-long voluntary military course for adult school leavers. This marks the third intake of the programme so far, and it's shatteri

The CEO of the state-owned company České dráhy (Czech Railways), Michal Krapinec, has voluntarily given up his security clearance at the "Confidential" level — the second-highest of the four classification levels in the Czech Republic. This

Police have officially opened an investigation into the traffic accident involving MP Filip Turek's Mercedes and a Škoda Fabia ambulance, which occurred on July 13. The case is being handled on suspicion of negligent bodily harm.Since only

Prague police have opened criminal proceedings on suspicion of negligent bodily harm in connection with a crash that occurred on Monday, July 13, at the intersection near the I. P. Pavlova metro and tram station in Prague. This was announce

A police drone captured widespread rule-breaking at an intersection near the village of Otnice in the Vyškov region: drivers of cars, vans, a truck, and even cyclists ignored the Stop sign on road 418, with some failing to slow down even in

A four-year investigation into a major environmental scandal in Ostrava has ended without anyone being held responsible. In late June, the Czech Ministry of the Environment closed the case concerning the alleged illegal dumping of hundreds