The Czech Constitutional Court has rejected a complaint from a woman who did not want to divorce her husband and cited a serious illness. The general courts dissolved the marriage, which was concluded in 2022, and the highest instance decli
A 63-year-old man is suing a hospital in the Czech town of Domažlice for compensation over severe bedsores that developed during his treatment there in 2022 and nearly cost him his life. The lawsuit is based on a court-appointed expert's re
Authorities near the Hřebeč tunnel in Czechia cannot agree on whether dangerous trees can be felled along the road through the Hřebečovský Les nature reserve: the process has been held up by a dispute between the state forestry enterprise L
Czech Health Minister Adam Vojtěch (ANO party) said at a press conference on Tuesday that the state will buy 15% more flu vaccines than usual this year and hopes there will be enough for everyone who wants one — even though Czechs' interest
In the Czech city of Brno, a woman wearing headphones failed to hear the siren of an approaching ambulance and ran straight out in front of a moving car. The incident happened last week at a pedestrian crossing on Kolištĕ street near Moravs
In 2025, 1,140,000 people in 600,000 households in Czechia met the criteria for energy poverty, according to data from the Faculty of Social Studies at the University of Ostrava. This applied to 33% of single-parent households, 40% of low-i
Starting with the New Year 2027, uncontrolled fireworks will no longer be allowed in most of Prague's districts: city assembly deputies approved the ban on 18 June, and 15 more districts later joined it. According to the city, more than 1.1
Foresters at the Krkonoše National Park Administration expect the number of spruce bark beetles — a pest that damages spruce trees — to grow in the mountains next year because of the ongoing drought. According to the park administration, th
Darya Shipilova, a 28-year-old researcher at an anti-plague research institute, has died in Russia’s Irkutsk region in eastern Siberia. In late September she accidentally broke a test tube containing live bacteria; on Tuesday she was hospit
Brno and the South Moravian Region failed to reach an agreement with airlines on regular flights to Frankfurt: the tender announced for the route attracted not a single bid from carriers. The local governments had planned to launch the flig
Water levels in Czech rivers have dropped to 10–50% of their long-term average, and in some places only a tenth of the usual volume is flowing. In Prague, the Vltava's inflow at the Praha-Chuchle station is currently around 40 cubic metres
In the Karlovy Vary region, veterinarians have found a wild boar infected with the dangerous trichinella parasite: the animal arrived at a local game-processing point for inspection along with other carcasses. The discovery was made during