Around 300 Czech citizens have been evacuated in connection with a large wildfire near the Croatian resort town of Omiš, Czech Foreign Ministry spokesman Adam Čörgő told CTK today.

The Czech Army is recruiting 2,997 soldiers this year, according to Defence Minister Jaromír Zůna (SPD). The army had originally planned to recruit 2,250 people. Prime Minister Andrej Babiš (ANO) said ...

Extreme, exceptional or significant drought, meaning one of the three highest levels of drought, is currently affecting more than 88 percent of the Czech Republic. The figure applies to soil depths of ...

Scrapping the ninth grade of primary school would likely lead to poorer educational outcomes, increase the number of young people entering the labour market without sufficient qualifications, and ...

Czech swimmer Barbora Seemanová has won the European title in the 200-metre freestyle for the third time, improving her national record by 0.74 seconds to 1:54.38 in the final in Paris. Her time was ...

Czech tennis player Kateřina Siniaková has won her 38th doubles title, winning the Canadian Open in Toronto alongside China’s Zhang Shuai. The top-seeded pair beat the Italian-American duo of Sara ...

With around 60 public observatories and planetariums, Czechia has an unusually dense network of places devoted to exploring the night sky.

Age discrimination in the Czech labour market may start as early as 40, according to a study by the deputy ombudsman and researchers from Masaryk University, released on Thursday. It found that job ...

The Czech government is to spend four billion crowns on measures to combat drought, Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, Agriculture Minister Martin Šebestyán and Petr Kubala, head of the Vltava River Basin ...

The risk of wildfires has spread across all of Czechia due to continuing drought and hot weather, the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute warned on Thursday. The risk is expected to increase over the ...

According to astronomers, yesterday’s eclipse was the largest visible from the Czech Republic since August 11, 1999. The Czech lands will not experience a total solar eclipse until 2135. The next ...

The Czech Culture Ministry will provide around CZK 9 million to help restore the memorial to the 82 children murdered by the Nazis in Lidice during World War II. Culture Minister Oto Klempíř and ...