Friday

Chronicle of October 2, 2026

35 entries

• The Prague Public Transit Company announced a tender with an estimated value of about CZK 3.76 billion excluding VAT for the construction of the Libuš station on metro line D, which is to be completed by 2032.

  ČTK / České noviny · Novinky.cz
  

• A parachutist fell near Klatovy, close to the local airfield.

  Novinky.cz · iDNES.cz · Plzeňská Drbna
  

• Matúš Gála has taken over as head of Lidl Czech Republic, replacing Tomasz Kuźma after two years.

  MediaGuru · Médiář
  

• Two Czech citizens died and another Czech was injured in a road accident in the US state of Wyoming; the Foreign Ministry said the Czech Consulate General in Los Angeles is providing consular assistance to them and to the families of the deceased.

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

• A family house burned overnight in Liberec's Dolní Hanychov district; firefighters declared a second-degree fire alarm, one person inhaled smoke and firefighters carried a dog out of the house.

  iDNES.cz: Liberec · Liberecká Drbna
  

• An unknown perpetrator set fire to a luxury Rolls-Royce car in Prague's Smíchov district; the damage exceeds one million crowns.

  Pražský deník · Blesk.cz · Pražská Drbna
  

• The University Hospital Olomouc is building thirty acute-care beds for children with mental illness, which the Olomouc Region has so far lacked.

  Deník: Olomoucký kraj · iDNES.cz: Olomouc · Hanácká Drbna
  

• Středočeské vodárny declared the water from the Odolena Voda reservoir drinkable again; the restriction over above-limit lead content, which affected twelve municipalities, had been in force since 24 September.

  iROZHLAS · Pražský deník · Ekolist.cz
  

• Hundreds of cars gathered in the car park of a hypermarket in Prague's Čakovice for an unauthorised tuning meet; according to a police estimate up to a thousand cars and 2,500 people came, the police monitored the event, which was due to move to Brno on Saturday.

  ČTK / České noviny · Seznam Zprávy · iDNES.cz
  

• A memorial site named Svatava with a memorial book was opened at the cemetery in Sokolov, commemorating women from the Svatava concentration camp who were buried in a mass grave in 1945.

  iROZHLAS · Karlovarská Drbna
  

• The convicted mayor of Polná announced that he will no longer be in the town's leadership after the October municipal elections.

  iDNES.cz · Deník: Vysočina
  

• Until Sunday, 4 October 2026, night-time traffic restrictions apply for maintenance in the Lochkov and Cholupice tunnels on the Prague Ring Road.

  Blesk.cz · Pražský deník · Pražský deník
  

• No carrier applied in the tender for a direct air route from Brno to Frankfurt, which the City of Brno had requested together with the South Moravian Region.

  Deník: Jihomoravský kraj · Brněnská Drbna
  

• The town of Ostrov in the Karlovy Vary Region is completing the modernisation of its municipal sauna at a cost of about 35 million crowns; it is due to open to the public in early October 2026.

  Deník: Karlovarský kraj · Karlovarská Drbna
  

• The town of Brtnice is reconstructing a surgery for a dentist, which is due to start operating in spring 2027.

  Deník: Vysočina · Jihlavská Drbna

• In Zlín, the renewal of the Sad Svobody park by the château, costing 190 million crowns, has begun; according to the opposition, it is linked to the elections.

  Deník: Zlínský kraj · iDNES.cz: Zlín

• Construction of a new ice hockey arena in Pardubice is due to begin in December 2026.

  ČTK / České noviny · Deník: Pardubický kraj
  

• According to a survey by the STEM agency, 76 percent of Czech residents view Václav Havel positively, compared with 71 percent in 2002.

  ČTK / České noviny · Novinky.cz
  

• Rectors of universities described the proposed higher-education budget as insufficient and warned that universities may be forced to admit fewer students.

  iDNES.cz · iROZHLAS
  

• Czechia has not managed to submit its national nature restoration plan to the European Commission; the ministry has not yet sent it.

  Ekolist.cz · Ekonomický deník
  

• President Petr Pavel will not take part in the vote in the municipal council elections in Černouček in the Litoměřice area because he will be abroad; the presidential office said he regrets the planning mistake.

  ČTK / České noviny · Echo24
  

• The Ministry of Finance placed the prediction platform Kalshi on the list of prohibited online gambling games, so internet providers in Czechia are to block it.

  Lupa.cz · Echo24
  

• The Czech Hydrometeorological Institute said that this year, from January to the end of September, is the third driest since 1961: 395 millimetres of precipitation fell in Czechia, or 73 percent of the 1991–2020 normal.

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

• In Ostrava, after the reconstruction of a historic building on Kafkova Street, an expanded Mental Health Centre opened, which will increase capacity from 120 to 220 clients and become the only comprehensive facility of this type for adults in the Moravian-Silesian Region.

  Deník: Moravskoslezský kraj · Ostravská Drbna
  

• The Karlovy Vary Region launched a new online portal called Kam na západě, which brings together an overview of cultural, sporting and other events in the region in one place.

  Deník: Karlovarský kraj · ČRo Karlovy Vary
  

• During an illegal tuned-car meet on 2 and 3 October, police across the country checked about 17,000 vehicles, found 1,565 speeding offences and imposed fines totalling 2.93 million crowns for them.

  ČTK / České noviny · Pražský deník
  

• According to the keeper, wolves attacked a flock of sheep near Javorná in the Železná Ruda area of the Plzeň Region in the night to 2 October 2026; three of the thirteen animals survived.

  Novinky.cz · Plzeňská Drbna

• The reconstruction of the bridge at Stará Chodovská in the Sokolov area will take longer because of defects found later; the Karlovy Vary Region road administration aims to reopen it in early December.

  iDNES.cz: Karlovy Vary · iROZHLAS
  

• In a reader survey by Boleslavský deník on the biggest problem in Mladá Boleslav, Old Town Square won with 60.9 percent of votes ahead of parking problems in the northern part of the city.

  Boleslavský deník · Boleslavský deník · Boleslavský deník · Boleslavský deník · Deník: Plzeňský kraj · Deník: Karlovarský kraj
  

• The Penny Market store in Telč has received a final building permit, with construction on the site of the former coal storage facilities expected to begin no later than the first quarter of 2027.

  Deník: Vysočina · Jihlavská Drbna
  

• President Petr Pavel flew to Morocco on 2 October 2026 for a private holiday on an aircraft owned by the family of businessman Pavel Hubáček; according to the presidential office, the plane was chartered by a group of participants in the trip, who shared the costs among themselves, the president included.

  Deník N · Seznam Zprávy
  

• The Ministry of Finance adjusted the maximum fuel prices for the weekend: the cap on diesel fell slightly, while the cap on petrol rose.

  ČTK / České noviny · Echo24 · Novinky.cz
  

• German Franz Reindl was elected head of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF), beating the outgoing vice-president, Czech Petr Bříza, by three votes in the second round.

  Deník.cz
  

• On the evening of 2 October 2026, according to a police estimate up to a thousand cars gathered at an unauthorised tuning meet in Prague's Čakovice; over Friday and Saturday police recorded 176 offences.

  Pražský patriot · iDNES.cz
  

• During a visit to the University Hospital Olomouc on 2 October 2026, Prime Minister Andrej Babiš said that the Ministry of Health runs 19 psychiatric hospitals, three of them for children, and that child psychiatric care is lacking in four regions; the reconstruction and extension of the psychiatry clinic in Olomouc is to be finished in two years.

  Novinky.cz · iROZHLAS
  

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