Wednesday

Chronicle of September 30, 2026

33 entries

• Greenpeace activists in Prague covered an ANO billboard with a message aimed at the Motorists party.

  ČTK / České noviny · Pražský deník · Seznam Zprávy
  

• The government raised ministries' spending and cut the budget reserve in its draft budget.

  ČTK / České noviny · Novinky.cz · Echo24
  

• The Police Presidium ordered that the Oxygen Forensics software, developed in Russia according to US authorities, no longer be updated.

  Deník N · FORUM 24 · iDNES.cz
  

• The High Court in Olomouc upheld a 17-year sentence for an elderly man for murdering his nephew in the Jihlava region.

  ČTK / České noviny · Deník: Vysočina · Deník: Olomoucký kraj
  

• The Senate approved reducing the number of Czech soldiers deployed to defend NATO's eastern flank.

  ČTK / České noviny · iROZHLAS · FORUM 24
  

• The Prague City Museum completed the restoration of the Müller Villa in Střešovice; tours resume on Thursday.

  ČTK / České noviny · iDNES.cz, Praha · Pražský deník
  

• Environment Minister Igor Červený filed a criminal complaint over contaminated land in the former military area of Zhůří in the Klatovy region.

  ČTK / České noviny · iDNES.cz · Lidovky.cz
  

• The appeals court upheld, with final effect, a three-and-a-half-year prison sentence for a Pardubice lawyer for inciting an abduction.

  iROZHLAS · iDNES.cz · Novinky.cz

• Zlín Zoo lost a female elephant that could not be revived from anaesthesia.

  ČTK / České noviny · Deník.cz · Deník: Zlínský kraj
  

• The warmest day of this Indian summer brought temperature records at some weather stations.

  ČTK / České noviny · Lidovky.cz · iDNES.cz
  

• Prague City Hall launched a tender for redeveloping the embankment in Braník, where a new path will be built.

  Pražský deník · Pražský patriot
  

• The Supreme Administrative Court rejected a Russian company's complaint against the freezing of dozens of its properties in Czechia.

  ČTK / České noviny · Seznam Zprávy · iDNES.cz
  

• The Ministry of Finance set the price cap for 1 October 2026 at CZK 48.72 per litre of diesel and CZK 46.14 per litre of petrol.

  ČTK / České noviny · ČT24 · Novinky.cz · iDNES.cz · Echo24
  

• Interior Minister Lubomír Metnar appointed Colonel Martin Legner, selected in a tender, as Director General of the Fire Rescue Service of the Czech Republic with effect from 1 October 2026.

  ČTK / České noviny · ČT24 · Novinky.cz · Seznam Zprávy · iDNES.cz
  

• The Czech Statistical Office revised its estimate for the second quarter of 2026: gross domestic product grew by 1.8% year on year, less than in the previous estimate.

  ČTK / České noviny · Novinky.cz · Seznam Zprávy
  

• Construction began near Nový Jičín on the last section of the D48 motorway; completion is planned in about three years.

  Zdopravy.cz · Novinky.cz · iROZHLAS · Ostravská Drbna

• The Lipno Reservoir is about half full, with more than 124 million cubic metres of water missing.

  ČTK / České noviny · iDNES.cz · Ekolist.cz · Budějcká Drbna
  

• The Temelín Nuclear Power Station expanded the capacity of its nuclear fuel storage with a new storage rack made by the Plzeň company Škoda JS.

  Deník: České Budějovice / Jižní Čechy · Budějcká Drbna · Plzeňská Drbna · Deník: Plzeňský kraj
  

• The mayors of Ostrava and Katowice signed a memorandum on closer cooperation between the two cities.

  Deník: Moravskoslezský kraj · Ostravská Drbna · Info.cz
  

• At an extraordinary meeting, the councillors of the town of Aš approved the purchase of the former Hotel Goethe in Čapkova Street for about 17 million crowns, to prevent its conversion into a hostel.

  Karlovarská Drbna · iDNES.cz: Karlovy Vary
  

• A deep-sea aquarium is being built at the zoo in Olomouc and is meant to be the largest in Czechia.

  iDNES.cz · Hanácká Drbna · iROZHLAS
  

• Seven vehicles collided on the D6 motorway near Unhošť on 30 September 2026, and traffic towards Prague was restricted.

  iROZHLAS · Novinky.cz · iDNES.cz
  

• President Petr Pavel met experts on public finances, who described the situation as serious.

  Novinky.cz · Echo24 · Blesk.cz
  

• The city of Hradec Králové in the Hradec Králové Region will not buy the former medical faculty building for now because the coalition lacked enough votes; the decision is to be made by the new council.

  Deník: Královéhradecký kraj · Hradecká Drbna

• The South Bohemian Region began construction of a bypass of road II/137 between Tábor and Slapy, which will include a new bridge over the Lužnice and for which the region will spend more than 853 million korunas.

  Deník: České Budějovice / Jižní Čechy · Budějcká Drbna
  

• Brno city councillors approved the start of a tender for the completion of the football centre in Brněnské Ivanovice, costing about 65.5 million korunas.

  Deník: Jihomoravský kraj · Brněnská Drbna
  

• In Liberec, the draining of Vesecký rybník, nicknamed Tajch, began ahead of its extensive repair.

  Deník: Liberecký kraj · Liberecká Drbna · Liberecká Drbna

• Plzeň completed the renovation of Lochotínský park, which began in 2014 and cost 90 million korunas.

  Deník: Plzeňský kraj · Deník: Plzeňský kraj · Plzeňská Drbna

• The Nadace Olgy Havlové foundation is to have an honorary grave at Vyšehrad for those who leave it property in their wills.

  Pražský deník · Pražský patriot
  

• Footballer Ryan Naderi, born in Dresden to a Czech mother, decided to represent the Czech Republic and joined the national team ahead of Saturday's Nations League match against Spain.

  iDNES.cz · ČTK / České noviny · Deník.cz
  

• Správa železnic has launched a public tender for the construction of a new station building in Nýřany for a maximum of 58 million crowns, with construction to begin in the first quarter of 2027 and finish by the end of 2028.

  Deník: Plzeňský kraj · Parlamentní listy · Plzeňská Drbna
  

• A building authority issued the zoning decision for the first stage of the south-western bypass of Přerov in the Olomouc Region; construction could start in 2028 or 2029.

  Hanácká Drbna · Deník: Olomoucký kraj
  

• The mayor of the municipality of Srnojedy in the Pardubice Region resigned from office, and according to the deputy mayor, the deputy will run the municipal agenda until new leadership is elected.

  iDNES.cz: Pardubice · Deník: Pardubický kraj
  

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