Vor 4 Std. | A female pedestrian tried to cross a street in Vienna Hietzing yesterday afternoon (Tues) without paying attention to the traffic. She was hit by the tram number 60 and died at the scene.
Vor 4 Std. | The producer of printed circuit boards 'Austria Technologie & Systemtechnik AG' (AT&S) with its headquarters in Leoben, Styria, will close its venue in Klagenfurt, Carinthia (Southern Austria) at the end of 2013. 109 employees are affected.
Vor 4 Std. | Niemetz, the Austrian manufacturer of the "Schwedenbomben" confectionary, could not be saved. More than 4.1 million Euros had to be transferred to the liquidator until 21 May; as this did not happen, the factory will be sold immediately.
Vor 4 Std. | The Whitsun Festival in Salzburg has set a new record of visitors and revenue. Cecilia Bartoli, a popular soloist and the artistic director of the festival, was particularly popular.
Vor 4 Std. | 810 lightning strikes have been counted in Lower Austria last night (Tues). Meteorologists state that this is not an extraordinary number but some lightning strikes resulted in fires. The fire brigade had to set out in several towns.
Vor 4 Std. | The 15-minute parking ticket will replace the 10-minute parking ticket in autumn. The only alternative is to buy your parking ticket with your phone. A parking clock does not protect you from a fine.
Vor 1 Tag | A 150,000 Euro Arab stallion had to be put down after a car accident in the Innviertel region, Upper Austria. The horse broke out of an enclosure and galloped onto a private road. A motorbike could not avoid the horse.
Vor 1 Tag | The seven ferries of the lake Neusiedler See in Burgenland (Eastern Austria) have started operations. Due to the cold weather, the season started two weeks later than in the past years.
Vor 1 Tag | Possible projects for a "multilingual oriented educational concept" have led to a debate in Vienna. The SPÖ, ÖVP and FPÖ are currently discussing the two sides of the issue: "multilingualism as a chance" and "German as a priority".
Vor 1 Tag | Experts from Salzburg warn against the radical step of a breast amputation. The debate started last week, when Hollywood Star Angelina Jolie announced that she had her breasts removed out of fear of breast cancer.
Vor 1 Tag | In order to prevent a mass rush on the new tower at Pyramidenkogel in Carinthia (Souther Austria), the opening date will be announced at short notice. The attraction is expected to open in the middle of June.
Vor 1 Tag | The manager of the football team SV Scholz Grödig (Salzburg state), which will be promoted the Austrian Premier League, will have to go to court this week. He is accused of tax evasion and of having cooperated with the architect Markus Voglreiter.
Vor 1 Tag | An eagle is currently being treated in the bird of prey park Telfes, Tyrol (Western Austria). The animal ate the carcass of a dead animal that was shot with lead ammunition. The eagle is likely to survive the contamination.
Vor 1 Tag | Vienna has now joined those Austrian states that advocate a cooperative strategy for a ban of the neonicotinoids pesticides. Apparently, there are tested alternatives for the pesticides that are harmful for bees.
Vor 1 Tag | The Republic of Austria has to pay damages to a former student of the Medical University of Graz as the university offered not enough seminar places. The student's union is pleased with the Supreme Court's decision.
Vor 1 Tag | The riding centre of Heldenberg, district of Hollabrunn (Lower Austria) is now offering exclusive courses: professional riders of the Spanish Riding School of Vienna teach interested riders.
21.05.2013 | The civil case of the city of Linz, Upper Austria, against the Bawag bank about the swap deal will start on 24 May. The maximum amount of damage for Linz could be as much as 417 million Euros in the worst case.
21.05.2013 | Two men, who stole thousands of Euros by money laundering were sentenced last Thursday. The defendants promised their victims that they would increase the victim's money substantially.
21.05.2013 | SAFIKG, the Society of American Friends of the Jewish Community Vienna was formed as a U.S. registered charity to allow it to support the IKG (Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien) with tax deductible American contributions.
21.05.2013 | The Viennese funeral parlour Furtner now offers a symbolic supplement of the classic funeral. White doves can be released into the sky during the ceremony.
21.05.2013 | The International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO) took place on 17 May. On this occasion, the rainbow flag was raised next to the American flag at the building of the US embassy in Vienna.
21.05.2013 | The Leopold Museum in Vienna opened the the exhibition "Drawing against oblivion" on 17 May. Manfred Bockelmann drew more than 60 portraits of children and teenagers, who were victims of the Nazi terror.
21.05.2013 | The roofs of abandoned border posts are being dismantled in Burgenland, and Lower Austria will follow in autumn. The Federal Real Estate Company (BIG) is currently looking for firms, which will carry out the work.
21.05.2013 | A 55-year-old man fell during the "Third Man Tour", which leads visitors through the Viennese canal system. He is said to have suffered a femoral neck fracture.
17.05.2013 | The newspaper "Kurier" reported that the coalition of SPÖ and the Green Party in Vienna have decided to introduce a new free 15-minute parking ticket. It will be issued starting in September.
17.05.2013 | There is a huge amount of people who are addicted to gambling in Styria. One of these is a 38-year-old father. He has huge debts and is now suing the manufacturer Novomatic who makes slot machines.
17.05.2013 | Around one million people in Austria consume too much alcohol. The initiative "Alkohol ohne Schatten" (Alcohol without Shadows) criticises that the extensive medical treatment is not enough rewarded.
17.05.2013 | Two corpses of people who have been missing for a long time were found in Upper Austria yesterday (Wed). The corpse of a Polish diver was found in Attersee Lake and another corpse of a snowboarder was found at Kasberg.
17.05.2013 | Future teachers will get their knowledge directly from farms. Students of teacher training colleges will learn practical things about how modern agriculture works. They will be able to teach their future students.
17.05.2013 | The ÖVP of Lower Austria announced that they would stop the expansion of wind farms. The interest group IG Windkraft strongly criticises this as they claim that the law undermines the turning point of energy.
17.05.2013 | The trial of a 61-year-old man from Salzburg, who blackmailed the company Aldi South, started yesterday (Wed) in Duisburg, Germany. The defendant has already admitted that he demanded 15 million Euros from the firm.
17.05.2013 | A 44-year-old man received a prison sentence for severe fraud, money laundering and being a member of a criminal group. The state court of Feldkirch, Vorarlberg (Western Austria) believed that the man deceived 24 older people about lottery games on the Internet.
17.05.2013 | The "KinderUniSteyr" (Kids University of Steyr) in Upper Austria is one of the most innovative Austrian educational projects. This year, the university for children will celebrate its tenth birthday.
17.05.2013 | The judiciary is still dealing with fake registrations of students in Burgenland. Students were registered as residence in several municipalities in order to stop the closing of schools. New charges have now been filed.
16.05.2013 | The Austrian non-profit initiative HOPE'87 supports survivors of the collapse of a factory building in Savar, Bangladesh, which happened on 24 April 2013. Thousands of people, who had been working in the building in the event of the collapse, died.
16.05.2013 | The Glock-Horse-Performance-Center managed to invite international dressage riders and stars from the show business to Treffen, district of Villach-Land, Carinthia to the Dressage International from 16 to 19 May.
16.05.2013 | The extreme sportsman Felix Baumgartner stated that the Ministry of Finance spared him additional taxation by political intervention. The former Financial Secretary Reinhold Lopatka (ÖVP) denies these claims.
16.05.2013 | A man was sentenced to life imprisonment in an institution for mentally disturbed offenders yesterday (Tues). He broke out of prison last year and stabbed the father of his ex-girlfriend.
16.05.2013 | A deadly accident happened in Ebenwald forest near Weissenstein, district of Villach (Carinthia) yesterday (Tues) morning. A falling tree hit and killed a 47-year-old man during forestry works.
16.05.2013 | The legal charges made against "Upper Austrian News (OÖN) by the former Interior Minister Ernst Strasser (ÖVP) were rejected. Mr Strasser charged the newspaper due to their reporting of the lobbying affair for slander.
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