A Lower Austrian trying to kill himself by crashing his car was stopped by police after going at breakneck speed for dozens of kilometres up a busy motorway on Tuesday.Authorities announced today (Fri) the 44-year-old man was tracked down driving his Audi sports car at dense traffic on the A9 Pyhrn motorway after several horrified […]
A Croat worker who lost more than 1,000 Euros gambling faces charges for wasting police time for claiming he was robbed.The 24-year-old told police officers in Stockerau, Lower Austria, on Wednesday night two men beat him up and threatened him with knives after work.The warehouseman said the duo took 1,176 Euros he planned to spend […]
Constitutional authorities are under pressure to act after it emerged that the names of dozens of hiking paths implied links to the neo-Nazi mindset.Austrian hiking and climbing platform Bergsteigen.at revealed popular paths across the country had names like “Riefenstahl” or “Swastikaar”. While the former term clearly seems to refer to Third Reich filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, […]
Traffic on a major railway route in Tyrol had to be closed down this morning (Thurs) after workers discovered a leak in a rail tanker.Federal Railways (ÖBB) announced that staff had noticed gas escaping from a wagon at Kufstein station. Officials decided to evacuate the venue and halt traffic for around an hour as a […]
Residents of an Upper Austrian town have been given the go ahead to drink tap water after a recent study found it contained bacteria.Research carried out earlier this week revealed that there were coliforms in tap water in Attnang-Puchheim in the provinces Vöcklabruck district. The germs can cause various infections.Town hall officials decided to provide […]
Austria has seen a second case of a once male teacher set to return after the summer holidays to school as a woman.Viennese polytechnic college professor Walter S. infuriated some parents and colleagues by revealing last week he has undergone a sex change surgery recently. The federal education ministry however gave the green lights for […]
An autopsy has been ordered after the body of a truck driver was found on the Austrian-Hungarian border.Police in the Burgenland border town of Nickelsdorf said today (Fri) the 45-year-old Turkish mans body was discovered by colleagues who forcefully opened his trucks cabin after two days at a motorway rest stop yesterday.The dead driver and […]
A man accused of killing a brown bear has been excluded from the Carinthian Hunters Association.Officials said today (Fri) they decided to expel the hunter for life due to evidence garnered by special investigators examining the killing of bear Roznik. The animals skinned corpse was found with its head missing in a stream bed in […]
Four people accused of selling cocaine at a posh Viennese eatery have been arrested.Police in the federal capital announced today (Thurs) that restaurant boss Werner D. had admitted having flogged 1.2 kilograms of the drug to regular customers over the past two years.The 66-year-old as well as three alleged accomplices were taken into custody yesterday […]
Two people were killed in a plane crash in Upper Austria this afternoon (Thurs).Officials in Hirschbach im Mühlkreis in the provinces Freistadt district said both the pilot and the sole passenger of the single-engine aircraft died instantly when it went up in flames after careering into an embankment at a restaurant close to the local […]