In the village of Stáj in the Vysočina Region, home to around 200 people, the local water supply — drawn from wells — could no longer keep up with residents' needs, leaving the village short on water. Local authorities have decided to drill
Interest among ninth-grade graduates in studying IT at Czech secondary schools has fallen sharply: two years ago, 18,000 applications were submitted for these programmes, whereas this year the number stood at just 13,500. Demand has dropped
German police recorded 18,736 victims of child sexual abuse last year — a 3.6% increase over the previous year. According to the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), the vast majority of victims were between six and 13 years old, with 74%
Ecologists are warning that ordinary items found in gardens, cottages and farms — drainpipes, water barrels, chimneys and ventilation shafts — cause the deaths of thousands of birds and small animals every year. According to ornithologists,
Czech researchers from the Forestry and Game Management Research Institute, working together with colleagues from the Czech University of Life Sciences and the Institute for Forest Ecosystem Research, have studied how forest soils accumulat
A new wave of fraudulent SMS messages is spreading across Czechia, informing drivers that they allegedly have an unpaid parking bill and urging them to settle it online immediately. According to the Police Presidium, the scammers are using
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