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Celje line-up ahead of the first leg of the round of 16 of the UEFA Conference League. Photo: Boštjan Podlogar/STA
Slovenian football champions Celje have made it to the quarter-finals of the UEFA Conference League in a historic achievement, ousting Lugano of Switzerland in a penalty shoot-out in a goals galore return leg of the last 16.
Celje came to Thun on 13 March with a slight advantage, having defeated th
The winners of International Medis Awards, pictured with President Nataša Pirc Musar. Photo: Nebojša Tejić/STA
Eight doctors and one pharmacist from Central and Eastern Europe, including Slovenia, were honoured for their outstanding research achievements as the International Medis Awards for Medical Research were handed out for the 11th year in Ljubljana on 13 March.
Paediatrician Alja Kavčič from the Ljubl
Slovenian biathlete Jakov Fak. Photo: Anže Malovrh/STA
Slovenian biathlete Jakov Fak has won the men's 15-km race in Slovenia's Pokljuka to earn his seventh individual career victory in the Biathlon World Cup almost exactly ten years after his previous win.
The 37-year-old Croatian-born biathlete was perfect in shooting and very fast in the running par
Key lock boxes used for short-term rentals. Photo: Daniel Novakovič/STA
The government has adopted a bill to curb short-term rentals in a bid to make housing more accessible, provoking a backlash from rental property owners, who are considering taking legal action.
The new hospitality bill sets down strict limits on short-term letting while granting local authorities f
Ski jumping champion Nika Prevc. Photo: Jure Makovec/STA
After winning two world titles and a mixed team silver at the World Championships, Slovenian ski jumping star Nika Prevc has secured her second consecutive Crystal Globe by winning the FIS Ski Jumping World Cup event in Oslo two weeks before the end of the season.
Prevc has earned 1,533 points this
Charging of e-vehicles. Photo: Tamino Petelinšek/STA
EV Solutions, the Slovenian-based EV charging stations maker that its Swiss owner wanted to wind down, will stay in business under a new owner, Slovenian financial company KD Group.
Landis+Gyr announced on 13 March it had entered into a share purchase agreement with KD Group for the sale of its EV
A catheter made by TIK Kobarid. Photo: TIK Kobarid
TIK, the Kobarid manufacturer of disposable medical devices, has been acquired by Plastiflex, a multinational founded in California, US that is headquartered in Belgium.
Plastiflex acquired TIK from its most recent owner, entrepreneur Marjan Batagelj, best known as the majority owner of the operato
Ljubljana court house, which is also home to the Supreme Court. Photo: Aleš Osvald/STA
Silvo Drevenšek, the first person in independent Slovenia to have been sentenced to life in prison, has had his sentence commuted to 30 years following an appeal.
Drevenšek stabbed his former partner to death before going next door to murder her parents in the presence of his four-year-old son on C
Kranj, the regional capital of Gorenjska, NW Slovenia. Photo: Tinkara Zupan/STA
Kranj, the regional centre of Gorenjska in the northwest, has made great strides in sustainable mobility, energy efficiency, and smart communities in recent years, winning acclaim as the most dynamic Slovenian municipality.
The city, Slovenia's third largest, has renovated a number of public buildi
Miha Matjašec, 16, transferred from FC Domžale to Red Bull Salzburg. Photo: FC Domžale
Miha Matjašec, a 16-year-old Slovenian football talent, will join the perennial Austrian football champions Red Bull Salzburg starting from the 2025/26 season, following in the footsteps of the young star Benjamin Šeško.
The signing of the deal between Matjašec's club Domžale and Red Bull Salzburg,
Velika Planina, the Alpine plateau where Swedish businessman and nationalist Carl Lundström crashed his four-seater. Photo: Anže Malovrh/STA
The Swedish pilot killed when his four-seat aircraft crashed into the Velika Planina plateau was Carl Lundström, the 64-year-old co-owner of the pirating site The Pirate Bay and a senior member of the far-right party Alternative for Sweden, Swedish media have reported.
The Swedish newspaper Express
The Rogla ski resort. Photo: STA
The company managing the Rogla ski resort and the spa Terme Zreče will be acquired by a Slovenian private equity fund, which has promised to undertake major investments.
The resort and the spa in the Pohorje area have so far been ran by Unitur, the tourism arm of Unior, the state-owned tool maker a