
Water contaminated with E.coli bacteria and sapovirus has sickened over 350 people in a posh department store in the centre of Ljubljana, including members of parliament and employees of the country's largest bank.
The Maximarket department store detected an infection of unknown origin among its cu

For the past three decades Slovenia has been organising an annual Olympic Games-themed event for children whose health condition means they are away from school a lot. Taking place at a major rehabilitation centre, this year's event featured 42 children participating in three sports disciplines.

A small but iconic square in the heart of Piran has become Slovenia's first location to make the Treasures of European Film Culture, a list of symbolic places of European cinema compiled by the European Film Academy to highlight the need to maintain and protect them.
The 1 May Square is best known

A major earthquake hit the Slovenian capital Ljubljana on Easter Sunday 130 years ago. Many images chronicling the aftermath have survived, and some have now come alive thanks to the latest advances in technology.
The National and University Library has deployed artificial intelligence to add colou

Fans of border collies should head for the Sheepdog Centre in Ig near Ljubljana this weekend to see them demonstrate their herding skills at an international sheepdog trial.
Organised by the Slovenian Sheepdog Club, the only such competition in the country features 45 handlers with 56 dogs from Aus

The LGBTQ+ community in Slovenia is celebrating a milestone recognition move as a small park in a central Ljubljana borough has been named in honour of a lesbian intellectual couple who were together for almost half a century. A lesbian activist described the experience as cathartic.
Located in the

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Zoran Mušič (1909-2005), an internationally acclaimed modernist painter and printmaker, will be honoured with a series of exhibitions in Slovenia and Italy as Nova Gorica and Gorizia have come together as the first cross-border European Capital of Culture.
Born to Slovenian parents in the Slovenian

The farm where egg-laying hens had been secretly filmed in appalling conditions by an animal welfare group has been slapped with a fine and those in charge have been reported to the prosecution for falsely labelling their eggs as organic, according to the newspaper Dnevnik.
The paper says the Admin

A long sidelined and underfunded area, women's health is the focus of work of US-based Slovenian researcher Polona Šafarič Tepeš. She is currently developing a breakthrough non-invasive test for endometriosis, a disease that affects millions of women.
Šafarič Tepeš, who obtained a PhD from the Ljub