Ljubljana – Lawyer and ex-Info Commissioner Nataša Pirc Musar is in the lead in the presidential race, according to a poll conducted by Mediana for public broadcaster RTV Slovenija. She enjoys the support of 23.9% of respondents and is followe...

Ljubljana – A total of 5,194 final-year secondary school students or some 95% passed the national school-leaving exam, known as the matura exam, which is close to last year’s 97%. Eighteen students scored all points and three students pas...

Ljubljana – Slovenia confirmed 941 new cases of coronavirus over the weekend, an increase of more than 40% over the previous weekend. One patient with Covid-19 died during the weekend. There are currently 45 patients at regular wards hospitalis...

Ljubljana – Prime Minister Robert Golob will be on a working visit to Berlin on Tuesday to meet German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in what will be his first bilateral visit abroad. They will talk current issues and further cooperation between Sloven...

Ljubljana – Slovenia’s electricity output dropped by over 8% last year while consumption rose by 3%. The country’s output met 83% of its needs, down by almost 10 percentage points from the year before but on a par with pre-pandemic ...

Ljubljana – Slovenian gas consumers have been urged to use natural gas with care as a precautionary measure as the Energy Agency declared an early warning level on Monday to notify the public of potential disruption to supply in the future in c...

Ljubljana – The Chamber of Nursing and Midwifery said on Monday it was surprised by Health Minister Danijel Bešič Loredan’s claim in a recent interview that there are no medical staff shortages in Slovenia. The chamber said its data sho...

Paris – Slovenia’s star cyclist Tadej Pogačar, the winner of the past two Tour de France races, seems well on his way to make it three in a row. Talking to the press on Monday, a free day in the excruciating three-week grand tour that st...

Ljubljana – The proponents of two referendum initiatives challenging the changes to the communicable diseases act which govern epidemic restrictions are to start collecting signatures for the votes on 1 September if a referendum on the bill is ...

Prague – Interior Minister Tanja Bobnar attended an informal EU ministerial in Prague on Monday, telling her colleagues from the other EU members that the Slovenian police had not yet detected major security threats stemming from the war in Ukr...