Despite public assurances that the situation surrounding defibrillator implantations at its cardiology clinic was under control, the management of the University Hospital in Olomouc had already signed a contract with a crisis-communications
Elsa, the lioness confiscated from MMA fighter Patrik Vémola over the illegal keeping of a wild predator, is now on display to visitors at Liberec Zoo. According to the zoo's press office, the animal spent a month in quarantine and can now
On Monday, a man spotted a large black predator by a pond near a forest in the village of Kvasejovice, close to Soběslav in the South Bohemian region. According to police, the animal was just a few metres away from him, and the witness desc
On Monday, the Czech government approved an amendment to the Schools Act introducing a complete ban on the use of mobile phones in kindergartens and schools. The bill was put forward by Prime Minister Andrej Babiš and Education Minister Rob
Rastislav Madar, dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ostrava and an epidemiologist, has warned that the world is not far at all from a new global pandemic. As an example, he pointed to April's hantavirus outbreak on a Dutch
In June last year, a patient named Jan Boček died in the follow-up care ward in Mnichovo Hradiště, part of the Klaudian Hospital in Mladá Boleslav, Czechia. His son, Radek Boček, says that more than a year after his father's death, the fami
Scientists from Charles University in Prague have discovered the world's oldest evidence of horizontal tectonic plate movement in Canada: a curved mountain belt roughly 2.7 billion years old, formed by the collision of lithospheric blocks.
On the evening of Wednesday, August 12, 2026, a partial solar eclipse will be visible across Czechia — the Moon will cover most of the Sun's disc, and in the east of the country residents will be treated to a rare sight: the setting sun shr
A powerful storm cut off electricity to the town of Vizovice and its surrounding area, causing serious technical problems for the Masters of Rock music festival. Organisers reported that the entire town and the surrounding area were left co
Severe thunderstorms swept across eastern Czechia on Sunday, bringing hurricane-force winds, heavy rain and hail — the Zlín Region and eastern Silesia were hit hardest, firefighters reported.According to Kamil Guštiak, spokesman for the Zlí
On Sunday afternoon, authorities began evacuating buildings near the burning Building No. 34 of the former Svit industrial complex in Zlín, citing the threat of strengthening winds during an approaching storm. According to Kamil Guštiak, sp
Czechia has 6,258 municipalities — an absolute European record for the number of settlements per capita — with the average Czech village home to just around 1,700 residents. Three-quarters of Czech "obce" (municipalities) have fewer than a