Macedonia

2,000 Fewer Places for First-Year Students, While a Dorm Room Jumped From 3,500 to 6,000 Denars

Cutting the administration quotas makes sense - it is just a few generations late. And a renovated dorm that has...

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Macedonia

The Same Tap, Two Days, Two Opposite Findings: Water Banned in Demir Kapija

The Institute in Skopje says the water fails the standard, the Centre in Veles says it passes. The ban is...

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Macedonia

A New Outdoor Gym in Aerodrom, but the Workout Happens Between Yellow Grass and Dust

Five free zones have been announced and it is a good idea. Except that the equipment is a one-off cost...

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Macedonia

Lake Ohrid is 11 centimetres above average, but the water is 2.5 degrees warmer

The level is holding, the temperature is running away. Two numbers telling the same story from two sides, and only...

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Macedonia

Kumanovo is fighting a chronic problem with two machines: the Krasta landfill is still smoking

Methane breaks through in new places while others are being buried under soil. The problem is not unknown - what...

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Macedonia

Skopje among Europe's dirtiest: what the list actually measures and what 3,000 bins will not change

Only 23 percent of Skopje residents are satisfied with cleanliness, against a European average of 59. A bin does not...

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Macedonia

The Markova Reka bridge will be ready in early September: 75,000 euros for something that should have been maintained

The state roads company looks after 1,100 bridges across the country. Once a repair becomes urgent it is no longer...

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Macedonia

West Nile fever: Gazi Baba is spraying on an emergency basis while Bitola has finished all its regular treatments

Mosquitoes do not recognise a municipal border. The pest control plan evidently does.

14 August 2026 Read more →

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Macedonia

The water was clean, the landfill is not: what Skopje's hours of panic actually revealed

Labs showed zero bacteria, and the mayor drank a glass on camera. But the landfill near Rašče has been sitting...

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The road to Teferič is cracking, and the deadline comes with an asterisk: „we're allowing a year, but let's see what the winter is like”

The transport ministry is taking over the landslide after a tender closing on 20 August. The work did not stall...

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Macedonia

Eighteen years from foundation stone to consecration: the cathedral that holds Skopje's skyline

Six thousand places under the domes, a five-tonne chandelier and a facade that took first place in Budapest this year....

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Over 100 patients a day in Kumanovo for two months - and not one message about it on social media

Intestinal infections are rising across the country because of the heat and travel. Yesterday the whole country was talking about...

13 August 2026 Read more →