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Liberec Region is preparing a reconstruction of the leopard pavilion at the zoo in Liberec, with costs estimated at CZK 148.4 million including VAT; construction is to begin in summer 2027 and the new exhibit is to open in the 2029 season.
The Prague 2 district authority will handle the misdemeanour proceedings over the collision of deputy Filip Turek with a hospital vehicle on 13 July 2026; according to the deputy's statement to ČTK, he did not turn to the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic.
The Czech Statistical Office published data on 8 October 2026 showing that retail sales in Czechia, excluding the sale and repair of motor vehicles, rose year on year by 4.3 percent in August, after a revised 5.1 percent in July; online and mail-order shops contributed most to the growth, with their sales up 15 percent.
The Pavel Haas Quartet won a Gramophone award for a recording of works by Bohuslav Martinů.
Unemployment in Czechia stood at 5 percent in September and remained at the same level for the third month in a row.
The Dr. Pírek Clinic in Mladá Boleslav opened a new pavilion that is meant to expand its rehabilitation and surgery capacity.
Škoda Auto is cancelling some shifts because of problems with parts deliveries, which according to the trade unions have also affected production of the Kodiaq model in Kvasiny.
Smolík, a former manager of the ZPMV insurer, received bonuses and severance pay totalling 35 million crowns over the last three years in addition to his salary.
Czech authorities sent the European Commission a reply to its letter on a possible conflict of interest of Prime Minister Andrej Babiš in the use of EU funds, describing their conflict-of-interest safeguards and stating that a subsidy can be neither granted nor paid out once such a conflict is established.
The Czech Hydrometeorological Institute warned of strong wind with gusts of up to 70 km/h in the Ore Mountains and the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands as a cold front passes.
At a hearing in a Zlín court on the roof fire at a school on 10 November 2025, the accused welder admitted that he had acted in breach of regulations.
The construction of the Prague Ring Road is to restrict train service on the railway line from Prague to Benešov.
The Office for Oversight of the Management of Political Parties and Political Movements said that 20 groupings running in the Senate elections had not submitted their lists of campaign donors on time; 18 of them have since done so, while Koruna Česká and rEvoluce have not yet.
Pivovary Staropramen announced that the Ostravar brewery in Ostrava will gradually end production next year and its brands will be brewed in Smíchov in Prague, which is to affect about 120 employees.
The director of the Krkonoše National Park administration, Petr Moravec, apologised to the directors of the other national parks for not informing them in advance that, together with two other people, he had founded at the end of September an association named Asociace národních parků ČR.
Trade unions at Václav Havel Airport Prague announced that they will meet next week to consider whether to continue the strike alert that they declared from 21 July in connection with the choice of Radomír Lašák as head of the airport.
The storage space of the Vodní nádrž Husinec in the Prachatice District ran dry and the reservoir now releases only as much water as flows into it; the director general of Povodí Vltavy, Petr Kubala, said that the reservoirs intended for drinking water supply are sufficiently full.
A court rejected a lawsuit by Diamo against the procedure of the Ministry of the Environment in the case of the burning spoil heap in Heřmanice.
Ahead of the municipal and Senate elections on 9 and 10 October, the Ostrava-Poruba city district warned that some voters had received incorrect ballots and urged them to check; correct ballots can be collected at the office or at the polling station.
The Ministry of Health filed a criminal complaint over findings from inspections of remuneration and severance pay at the Zdravotní pojišťovna ministerstva vnitra.
Tomio Okamura, Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic, has convened an extraordinary session for 14 October 2026 at the request of the coalition parties ANO, SPD and Motoristé to take up the State Employees Act vetoed by the president.
In August 2026 a public prosecutor conditionally dropped the criminal prosecution of the engineering company Ferrit, which police had charged over deliveries of mining machinery to Russia in breach of sanctions, as Czech Television reported on 8 October; four of the company's managers concluded plea agreements that a court still has to approve.
The reconstruction of the exchange building in Holešovická tržnice in Prague, costing 250 million crowns, was completed a year behind the original deadline of summer 2025; the building has not yet been approved for use, and the tenant is equipping it as a restaurant.
Among others, the Prague 4 town hall marked the Memorial Day of the Sokol Movement on 8 October 2026; its mayor said that the day honours Sokol members executed, imprisoned and persecuted under the Nazi occupation and the communist regime.
Úřad pro ochranu hospodářské soutěže discontinued the administrative proceedings on the fine it imposed in 2015 on the Centre for Evaluating Educational Results (Cermat) over a contract awarded without a tender, so Cermat will get back the 350,000 crowns it paid.
Ahead of the municipal and Senate elections, Czech Television is maintaining rules under which the leaders of five parties who are standing as candidates cannot take part in its pre-election broadcast, although four of them asked it in a letter to allow their participation; in response, Motorists leader Petr Macinka announced that he rejects the broadcaster's requests for experts of the foreign ministry to appear.
Health officials in the South Moravian Region recorded 502 cases of hepatitis from the start of 2026 to the end of September, more than 300 of them in Brno, and said the number of cases has been rising again since September.
On 8 October 2026 the state enterprise Povodí Ohře began reducing the outflow from the Březová Reservoir near Karlovy Vary from 170 to 150 litres per second, as the water level had fallen below 421 metres above sea level.
On 8 October 2026 the municipality of Černouček in the Litoměřice District was preparing for the municipal elections without President Petr Pavel, who, according to his office, will not vote there because of a private trip abroad; the municipality has 275 voters.
On 8 October 2026 Prague Zoo announced that it had become the first zoo in the Czech Republic to rear a young orange-breasted fig parrot; the male chick hatched on 27 May 2026 and is being raised by its parents.
The modernisation of the hospital in Náchod continues with a further stage in which a new pavilion and hall are to be built after demolition; according to iROZHLAS, the region will pay more than 1.5 billion crowns for the modernisation.
A multimedia exhibition about Sněžka was opened in the lower station of the cable car to Sněžka in Pec pod Sněžkou.
A new nature reserve, Číhanské slatě, covering 6.38 hectares near Teplá in the Karlovy Vary Region, was established in the Slavkovský les Protected Landscape Area to protect wild mineral springs.
A new book on the history of Vila Grossmann has been published in Ostrava.
A school in Prague 6 unveiled a memorial plaque to the gymnast Věra Čáslavská; pupils did the unveiling.
Plzeň Region has signed a contract with Arriva vlaky to run public rail services on four lines for 15 years from December 2030, using twelve battery-electric multiple units.
A firefighter from Vsetín with the Fire Rescue Service of the Zlín Region and his dog passed the exam and received a Ministry of the Interior certification for searching for people in rubble.
At a pre-election meeting in Teplice, Foreign Minister Petr Macinka (Motoristé) asked whether heritage officials were a kind of mafia, and Deputy Culture Minister Adam Gody Kocián replied that they were and that they would be next once the matter of Czech Television was settled; he later called it a harmless joke.
According to ČTK, the Husinec Reservoir on the Blanice river in the South Bohemian Region became the first in Czechia to run empty and, because of drought, began releasing only its inflow.
Since the beginning of October the government has regulated fuel prices in Czechia: the Ministry of Finance announces maximum prices of petrol and diesel for the following day, and the measure is to remain in force until the end of October.
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