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The Lovrenc Lakes, a rare example of pristine high-altitude wetlands. Photo: Nebojša Tejić/STA

New nature park created in Pohorje

Environment & NatureSociety
Woody high-altitude wetlands and mountain pastures that have long attracted visitors to Pohorje, a lush massif in northeast Slovenia, will enjoy special protection with the creation of a new Pohorje Regional Park.
The park stretches over 52 square kilometres in the upper altitudes of Pohorje and in
Barrels reading radioactive at a radioactive waste storage facility in Brinje, near Ljubljana. Photo: Tamino Petelinšek/STA
Slovenia will soon start building a repository for low- and and intermediate-level radioactive waste produced by its sole nuclear power plan. Construction will start in May with the facility slated to become operational in 2028.
A Slovenian consortium led by engineering company Riko has been picked
The freeze-dried barley dish that Slovenian students made for an astronaut's breakfast in a NASA competition. Photo: Boštjan Podlogar/STA

Third place for Slovenians in astronaut food cup

Science & EducationScience & Technology
Slovenian students have won third place in the NASA HUNCH Culinary Challenge, a competition where students come up with innovative meals for astronauts.
The Slovenian team, the first non-American team in the history of the competition, consisted of two students from BIC Ljubljana, an educational ce
The opening of the trotting competition season in Ljutomer. Photo: Katja Kodba/STA
The small region of Prlekija in Slovenia's northeast, tucked away along the right bank of the River Mura, is an often overlooked part of the country, even though most people are quite familiar with many of its delicious products: from excellent wines to the sweet prleška gibanica layer cake or the
Glovo food courier's backpack. Photo: Boštjan Podlogar/STA
Delivery service Glovo has announced it is leaving the Slovenian market on 10 May. The decision was made on the basis of a "reassessment of the company's priority investments."
"We thank you for all your orders on the Glovo app. We are grateful for the opportunity to deliver to you," the company sa
Norwegian lunches flights between Ljubljana and Copenhagen. Photo: Anže Malovrh/STA
Low-cost airline Norwegian has launched a twice-weekly service between Jože Pučnik Ljubljana Airport and Copenhagen.
Norwegian will initially fly between the Slovenian and Danish capitals Mondays and Fridays, and during the peak summer season Tuesdays and Saturdays.
Airport operator Fraport Sloveni
Aljoša Matko, the top scorer for Celje, at the European U-21 championship in 2021. Photo: Anže Malovrh/STA
Celje have won their second ever championship title in the Slovenian premiere football league a full three rounds before the end of competition.
They have been the dominant side since the early stages of the season and sealed the deal by defeating reigning champions Olimpija 1:0 on 28 April.
"Congr
Melamin factory in Kočevje before the 2022 fire. Photo: Aleš Kocjan/STA
The Kočevje chemical company Melamin returned to profit in 2023 after posting its first loss in decades the year before largely owing a deadly explosion in May 2022. The company has restored the bulk of its production capacities.
The company reported nearly €1.1 million in profit for 2023, bouncing
Three bivouac shelters from waste cans to be built in the mountains. Photo: Laško Union brewery
The Slovenian Alpine Association, the country's largest brewery and other partners have teamed up to collect waste aluminium cans and turn them into bivouac shelters in the mountains.
The cans will be collected for a year in dedicated yellow bins at 16 locations around the country as part of a proj
Vienna, Austria, capital. Photo: Xinhua/STA
Austria is the favourite career destination for Slovenians, while Slovenia is the most desired job destination for workers from Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia, a survey by employment portal Mojedelo.com and the Boston Consulting Group has shown.
The survey, conducted among 150,000 respondents from 1
A ceremony in front of a villa where the founding meeting of the WWII resistance movement Liberation Front took place. Photo: Boštjan Podlogar/STA
Slovenia observes the Day of Uprising Against Occupation on 27 April, a holiday honouring the resistance against Nazi and Fascist occupation during the Second World War.
The WWII resistance was spearheaded by the Liberation Front, an organisation founded in Ljubljana on 26 April 1941, 20 days after
A ballot box. Photo: Daniel Novakovič/STA
As Slovenians head to the polls on 9 June for EU elections they will also cast their vote in a triple referendum about assisted dying, cannabis use and the introduction of a preferential vote in general elections, unless the Constitutional Court decides otherwise.
It was the Freedom Movement, the b