Saturday

Chronicle of October 31, 2026

20 entries

• The Rudolfův kámen viewpoint near Jetřichovice in the Děčín region will reopen to tourists after repairs to its damaged summit gazebo.

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

• Near the village of Sytno in the Tachov region, a car driver drove off the road shortly before 5 a.m. on Saturday and crashed head-on into a tree, dying at the scene, while his female passenger was injured.

  Blesk.cz · iDNES.cz · Blesk.cz · Plzeňská Drbna · Novinky.cz

• A body was found in Norway of one of three Czech fishermen missing since the September shipwreck near the island of Grip.

  iDNES.cz · Novinky.cz · Blesk.cz · Deník.cz · Echo24 · ČTK / České noviny

• A policeman who was photographed in February wearing a T-shirt with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Protective Service headquarters has been removed from the team of personal bodyguards of Interior Minister Lubomír Metnar.

  Seznam Zprávy · Blesk.cz

• Prime Minister Andrej Babiš announced that the government will not limit debate on abolishing television and radio licence fees in the second reading in January and that the Ministry of Finance is preparing a proposal under which funding for Czech Television and Czech Radio would not come directly from the state budget, with the fees remaining voluntary.

  ČTK / České noviny · ČT24 · Novinky.cz · Echo24 · Deník.cz · FORUM 24
  

• Firefighters from the Moravian-Silesian Region tested a new emergency bridge across the Ostravice river in Vratimov, designed to quickly restore transport links during floods.

  iROZHLAS · Ostravská Drbna

• Tennis player Jakub Menšík hopes to make it to the November Davis Cup matches despite a head injury suffered at the Vienna tournament, though the recovery has already cost him the Paris Masters.

  ČTK / České noviny · Deník.cz

• Robert Houba, vice-president of the Czech Dental Chamber, has died at the age of 67.

  iROZHLAS · Blesk.cz

• Prime Minister Andrej Babiš announced that the ANO movement will hold extraordinary regional congresses in Prague, the Liberec Region and other regions where it significantly weakened in the October municipal elections.

  Liberecká Drbna · Echo24

• The demolition of the unsafe lookout tower on Velký Kosíř hill, closed since 2023, has been postponed from autumn to spring next year due to administrative delays.

  Deník: Olomoucký kraj · iROZHLAS · Hanácká Drbna

• An ultralight aircraft crashed near Vranov in the Benešov District; its only occupant, the pilot, was killed, and the circumstances are being investigated by police together with the Ústav pro odborné zjišťování příčin leteckých nehod.

  Novinky.cz · iDNES.cz · Lidovky.cz · Blesk.cz

• A car caught fire in the underground garage of an apartment building in Prague's Zbraslav district; firefighters declared a second-degree fire alarm, 14 people were evacuated from the building and no one was injured.

  Pražský deník · Novinky.cz

• The city of Plzeň announced that it will replace the surface of the terrace at the Josef Kajetán Tyl Theatre, whose original hollow slats, according to the city, repeatedly break through, with concrete paving; laying is due to begin in January 2027.

  iDNES.cz · iROZHLAS

• Students of the Czech Technical University in Prague and Prague faculties of Charles University announced they will support Tuesday's strike by the Veřejnoprávně initiative in defence of funding for Czech Television and Czech Radio, without going on strike themselves.

  Pražský patriot · Pražský deník · Pražská Drbna
  

• Near Zdislava in the Liberec region, a restored 1938 light fortification bunker (řopík) was officially opened as a small museum, which will also be used for teaching and POKOS events.

  ČTK / České noviny · Liberecká Drbna
  

• In a car accident near Jankov in the Benešov region, the driver died and two female passengers suffered minor injuries.

  Blesk.cz · iDNES.cz
  

• Fishermen completed the fish harvest at the Kudlovská přehrada reservoir in Zlín, which Povodí Moravy fully drained for the first time since the 1930s to repair a damaged spillway, and during the harvest and the earlier draining pyrotechnicians found munitions from World War II.

  Deník: Zlínský kraj · iROZHLAS
  

• Klatovské rybářství postponed the start of its autumn fish harvests by a month to mid-November due to severe drought.

  Plzeňská Drbna · Ekolist.cz

• Road accidents in Czechia killed 31 people in October 2026 according to preliminary police data, three fewer than in the same period of 2025, and 359 people have died on the roads since the beginning of 2026.

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

• In Ostrava-Zábřeh, police rescued a disoriented elderly man from a burning flat after he refused to evacuate.

  Deník: Moravskoslezský kraj · Novinky.cz
  

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