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Firefighters freed a truck stuck under a viaduct in Prague's Krč after more than 24 hours, with the help of two recovery tanks.
On Friday 9 and Saturday 10 October 2026, local referendums are held in South Bohemia, including on a hazardous-waste incinerator in Hůrka near Temelín and on wind turbines in Šebířov and Radenín.
Alongside the municipal elections, dozens of local referendums are held in municipalities on 9 and 10 October 2026, most of them on the construction of wind power plants.
A three-storey building caught fire in the village of Holany in the Česká Lípa area, and dozens of firefighters responded, also protecting neighbouring houses.
Near Olomouc a passenger train carrying more than 160 people hit part of a jack in the track area; nobody was injured, firefighters evacuated the passengers by bus to Olomouc main station, and traffic on the corridor was partly restricted.
Municipal council elections and the first round of Senate elections in 27 districts began in Czechia; polling stations opened on Friday at 14:00 and stayed open until 22:00, with voting on Saturday from 08:00 to 14:00, and 190,050 candidates stood for around 62,000 council seats.
The heritage inspectorate of the Ministry of Culture found shortcomings in the preparation and permitting of the first stage of the redevelopment of Náměstí Republiky in Plzeň, concerning the historic paving, street furniture and lighting.
In one municipality in the Olomouc Region, thirteen single-candidate lists stood in the municipal elections owing to disagreements.
Hydroelectric plants on the Vltava are producing only 40 to 50 percent of their long-term average because of drought, according to a spokesperson for the ČEZ Group.
President Petr Pavel returned from a private trip abroad and cast his vote in the municipal elections in Černouček, although he had earlier announced that he would not vote.
Letiště Praha awarded 267 contracts worth roughly CZK 780 million without a tender between 2022 and July 2026, according to interim results of an external audit seen by ČTK.
Prime Minister Andrej Babiš cast his vote in the municipal elections in Průhonice and said that defending the 2022 result would be a success for the ANO movement.
The Prague 4 district announced that from Thursday, 15 October 2026, it will begin changing its paid parking zones in stages: they are to apply from Sunday 17:00 to Friday 17:00, including at night, and some purple zones are to become blue resident zones.
During the municipal elections in Moldava, police were present at a polling station because of voters who had been struck off the register and wanted to vote; the election commission did not allow them to cast ballots.
On 9 October 2026, President Petr Pavel returned from holiday in Morocco, voted in the municipal elections in Černouček and flew back to Casablanca by private plane the same day.
On 9 October 2026, Dopravní podnik města Brna announced that from 10 October it would shorten boat service on the Brno Reservoir because of low water levels, with boats ending their route at Veveří Castle; the restriction is to last until the end of the navigation season.
ODS leader Martin Kupka said on 9 October 2026, after casting his vote in Líbeznice, that the party's aim is to defend five seats in the Senate of the Czech Republic and to succeed in all large cities and in many municipalities governed by ODS.
On 9 October 2026, police announced that Vídeňská Street in Prague's Krč is passable again after a lorry carrying a drilling rig, stuck under a railway bridge since 7 October, was freed, and that the preliminary damage is several tens of millions of crowns.
On 9 October 2026, a referendum on the construction of three wind turbines, which a private investor is considering, was held in Kožlany in the Plzeň area at the same time as the municipal and Senate elections.
On the evening of 9 October 2026, metro line A in Prague was suspended between Želivského and Dejvická stations after a woman fell onto the tracks at Náměstí Míru metro station and died; police are establishing the circumstances.
On 9 and 10 October 2026, municipal elections were held in Czechia, including the vote for the assembly of the capital city of Prague, together with elections to one third of the Senate of the Czech Republic.
Firefighters near Olomouc spent two days recovering a car from a river after it went off a bridge between Blatec and Grygov; according to the fire service, the driver reached the bank on her own.
The Prague Public Transit Company has announced that from 11 October to 18 December 2026 it will suspend tram service between Nákladové nádraží Žižkov and Ohrada because of the modernisation of the northern section of the track on Jana Želivského street.
In Olomouc, voting took place in a botanical garden for the first time in the history of the independent Czech Republic; voters of precinct No. 15 cast their ballots in the grounds of the Palacký University garden from Friday afternoon.
On 9 October 2026 the National Gallery Prague published an appeal to locate Jan Zrzavý's 1918 painting Vražda, which it wants to borrow from a private owner for the exhibition Zrzavý / Kubišta. Spřízněni volbou, which is planned for autumn 2027.
The French group Paprec is buying the company Marius Pedersen, which operates in Czechia and Slovakia, from its Danish owner; according to Ekonomický deník the deal is worth 15 billion.
In the first round of the Senate elections in the Vyškov area, KDU-ČSL chairman and South Moravian governor Jan Grolich won the most votes; Petra Absolonová of the ANO movement came second with 29.99 percent.
Police announced that a person under 15, who is not criminally liable because of age, had confessed to the violent death of a man in Dvůr Králové nad Labem on the night of 6–7 October and was placed in an educational facility by a court's interim measure.
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