Ljubljana – Slovenia won against Cameroon (3:0) in their first match at the Volleyball Men’s World Championship in Ljubljana on Friday. In a vibrant atmosphere of some 7,000 spectators, Slovenia justified their role as favourites and defe...

Ljubljana – Slovenian tourism is currently successfully recovering after the Covid-19 pandemic but there are many uncertainties about the autumn and winter ahead, Maja Pak, the head of the Slovenian Tourism Board (STO), told the STA. Still, the...

Ljubljana – After a drop of 30% in the number of newly diagnosed cancers in the first wave of the Covid epidemic in the spring of 2020, the second and third waves had a smaller impact on these trends, the Ljubljana Institute of Oncology told th...

Novo Mesto – Author Franci Novak received the award for the best collection of short stories at the Novo Mesto Short festival on Friday evening. He won the accolade for his work Obvoz (Detour). Published by LUD Literatura last year, Obvoz is a ...

Kredarica – Due to a lack of rainfall mountain huts in Slovenia are experiencing water scarcity, including the highest hut Kredarica that sits below Mt Triglav, Slovenia’s tallest peak. Currently, the hut only has water supplies for about...

Piran – The 21st Tartini Festival will start in the seaside town of Piran tonight with a concert by I Solisti Veneti at Minorite Monastery dedicated to the 330th birth anniversary of the Piran-born composer Giuseppe Tartini (1692-1770). Another...

Ljubljana – Economist Jože Mencinger, the economy minister in the first Slovenian government and a key voice of Slovenia’s economic transition in the 1990s, has died aged 81, according to the STA’s unofficial information. Unofficia...

Ljubljana – Commenting on the world’s failure to address climate change, the weekly Mladina says in its editorial on Friday that inaction will make life so hard for many people and will ultimately result in violence. It cites Marcel Štef...

Maribor – An exhibition of paintings celebrating national costumes will open at the Maribor Art Gallery (UGM) on Friday, presenting works by painter Ante Trstenjak (1894-1970) and contemporary artists Tina Dobrajc from Slovenia, Eric Schuett fr...

Ljubljana – Ukrainian students who have sought refuge in Slovenia were able to sit admissions tests to Ukrainian universities in the Slovenian city of Maribor in what was a joint campaign in response to the Ukrainian Education Ministry’s ...