The Federal Trade Union (ÖGB) has been accused of “betrayal”. Dozens of Tyrolean Airways (Austrian Arrows) employees organised a demonstration outside the ÖGB’s Viennese headquarters yesterday (Tues) to make themselves heard. Works council officials complained that the ÖGB considered their firm as nothing but a pawn in the game as the feud between the executive […]
Black Wings Linz took the lead in the best of seven final series of the EBEL Ice Hockey League last night (Tues). The Upper Austrian team beat KAC 6-2. Linz now lead 2-1. The next match of the series will take place tomorrow.
Health bosses are spending millions rebuilding an obesity clinic in Rissen, Austria, because their XXL patients are getting even fatter. Designers have created wider doors, reinforced beds with thicker mattresses, two metre-wide operating gowns and even super-sized paper undies. Officials say people have grown larger and larger since the clinic first opened and a typical […]
A pensioner from Pongau in the Salzburg region is to be honoured on her 80th birthday in the province of her birth for her work over 60 years in Colombia in helping the poor and dispossessed. Margaretha Moises, who is originally from Bad Hofgastein (Pongau), was voted as Salzburger of the year in 2006 and […]
Austrian farmers have raised the alarm over a water shortage following an entire month in which some regions have seen no rain at all. Particularly badly hit has been the agricultural region of Burgenland where it is estimated the first rain will now fall on 1 April – meaning that the region will have gone […]
A famous steep sided river valley known as the Rappenlochschlucht in Austria is set to be reopened after a massive rockfall closed it in 2011. The Austrian town of Dornbirn has now agreed to invest between 300,000 and 500,000 Euros in the project to put a tunnel along the side of the river that is […]
The opposition wants to apply the criminal law for politicians engaging in the illegal subsidisation of their parties. The Greens, the Freedom Party (FPÖ) and the Alliance for the Future of Austria (BZÖ) welcomed such a suggestion of Günther Kräuter, the general secretary of the Social Democratic Party (SPÖ). Kräuter said at the weekend that […]
Styria which promotes itself as the green heart of Austria is celebrating 40 years of the green heart campaign. The project was launched in 1972 to promote the Federal State of Styria which is the greenest state in Austria, with around 60 per cent forest as well as agriculture – whether pumpkins, apples or the […]
Spring may have arrived in force in Vienna but in the mountains winter still rules and skiing is still very much on the agenda. This Easter ski lovers in the capital can not only enjoy skiing at three different locations – there is also the chance to do it for free after the austrian times […]
Fare dodger Andreas F burst into flames when he stepped on a high voltage railway electricity cable trying to take a short cut out of a station in Breitensee, Austria, from a bridge onto a platform roof. Police say a 39-year-old man is in a “critical” condition in hospital with severe burns.