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The woman fell about 150 meters over rocky steep terrain at an altitude of about 1,300 meters, finally coming to rest in a scree field, as the police reported on Wednesday. The emergency doctor and paramedics,...weiterlesen »
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In the height of summer, tomatoes are particularly in demand and top the popularity scale among Austrians. In 2024, 33,440 tons of tomatoes were sold in the food trade, representing an increase of 1.8...weiterlesen »
Also, starting next week, the holiday period will end for students in Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Thuringia - it's back to school. Therefore, the first traffic jams towards Germany are expected. Although...weiterlesen »
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After a two-year investigation, the US Coast Guard names eight main causes for the "Titan" accident in its report, which comprises 335 pages, and makes serious allegations against "Oceangate." The operating...weiterlesen »
Section Chief Mathias Vogl, head of the Legal Section in the Ministry of the Interior, is to chair the commission on the Peršmanhof operation. Previously, he led the commission on Loibacher Feld. Members...weiterlesen »
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The trial against a pair of brothers, aged 20 and 22, was postponed on Tuesday. The court cited the need to obtain an IT expert report as the reason. The two Austrian citizens are accused of forming a...weiterlesen »
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Witnesses reported an ongoing burglary at the bakery branch in Vienna-Döbling on August 4th at around 12:45 AM. The alerted police officers, together with the WEGA, went to the scene and entered the building....weiterlesen »
When the police noticed a car traveling at a significantly excessive speed, they signaled it to stop. The driver steered towards the officers, who saved themselves by jumping to the side, and continued...weiterlesen »
The 24-year-old and his bandmate, who is two years younger, were reportedly on their way home from a band rehearsal when several far-right extremists and neo-Nazis boarded the train, shouting hate slogans....weiterlesen »
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The earthquake with a magnitude of 3.0 was registered on Monday four kilometers east of the municipality of Pfunds in the district of Landeck, reported the Austrian Seismic Service (GeoSphere Austria)....weiterlesen »
The animals, terrified by a thunderstorm, escaped through a dug hole from their owner's property, reported the Burgenland State Police Directorate on Tuesday. Subsequently, they broke into a private chicken...weiterlesen »
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A 27-year-old woman was bitten by a dog on Monday evening in Gramastetten (district of Urfahr-Umgebung). The four-legged animal jumped over a garden fence and bit the woman from Schardenberg (district...weiterlesen »
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Upon the arrival of the emergency services, the crashed vehicle was lying on its roof. The slightly injured person had already freed themselves from the car and was being treated by the Red Cross. ©Freiwillige...weiterlesen »
On the day a refrigerated truck with 71 dead refugees was discovered in a breakdown bay near Parndorf, the then state police director Hans Peter Doskozil visited a refugee support center in Nickelsdorf....weiterlesen »
At the height of the refugee movement, Burgenland became the scene of a tragedy in 2015: On August 27, an employee of Asfinag discovered a roughly 7.5-ton refrigerated truck parked in a breakdown bay on...weiterlesen »
In Styria, a moped rider who had a fatal accident was found on Monday afternoon. The accident in the municipality of Vasoldsberg is believed to have occurred on Friday night, the police announced on Monday...weiterlesen »
During the altercation on Saturday, a 26-year-old was seriously injured. According to the Vienna State Police Directorate, the criminal investigators from the Wattgasse police station identified a 32-year-old...weiterlesen »
During the altercation on Saturday, a 26-year-old was seriously injured. Through investigations by the criminal investigators of the Wattgasse police station, they quickly managed to identify the alleged...weiterlesen »
The student, who lives in the Tyrolean capital, had "ordered" the bomb threat from a 17-year-old Viennese. The boy carried it out on April 24, 2025, with a call to the police emergency number, triggering...weiterlesen »
On August 3, the fire departments of Weissenbach an der Triesting and Altenmarkt were alerted to a traffic accident with a rescue operation on the B18. A van with two adults and two children went off the...weiterlesen »
The accused veered onto the opposite lane on a country road in daylight and collided head-on with a Mercedes Sprinter. The 55-year-old woman, represented by defense attorney Peter Philipp, accepted the...weiterlesen »
During the altercation on Saturday, a 26-year-old was seriously injured. According to police spokesman Markus Dittrich, the West branch of the State Criminal Office identified a 32-year-old as a suspect....weiterlesen »
The station's security forces, who had already been alerted, intervened and took the folding knife from the 28-year-old. Officers from the police station at the main train station provisionally arrested...weiterlesen »
On August 3, a 24-year-old Syrian national was provisionally arrested in Vienna-Favoriten. According to the police, he allegedly threatened a 40-year-old man on Favoritenstraße with a folding knife around...weiterlesen »
The resident had observed the two suspects from his window while they were tampering with a bicycle and spoke to them, whereupon they quickly walked away. He then notified the police emergency number....weiterlesen »
Roland Pomberger, who heads the Chair of Waste Processing Technology and Waste Management at the Montanuniversität Leoben, was brought in by Zöchling as an expert. According to the report, all investigation...weiterlesen »
In the last week alone, three car drivers, a light motorcycle rider, a passenger in a car, and a cyclist lost their lives in traffic accidents. A serious traffic accident occurred on Friday, August 1,...weiterlesen »