Macedonia

Sewage Flows Into Lake Ohrid, but It's Safe for Swimming: Both Claims Are True, and That's the Problem

The treatment plant at Sveti Naum has only a grinder for the sewage, no filters. Hotels and whole villages discharge...

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Macedonia

Kavadarci Opens Its Doors to Ukrainian Kids Again: Ten Days of Peace From the War

A group of children aged 10 to 16 on a ten-day break in Mihajlovo. One small town and one local...

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Macedonia

Over 1,200 People in Gostivar Sick, Vardar River Water Pumped Into the City Supply: Who Answers for This?

The food agency banned drinking the water, police found unauthorised pumps, yet the utility's director and the mayor still say...

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Macedonia

Blistering Heat Up to 39 Degrees, the Whole Country on Yellow Alert: Are the Cities Ready for the New Normal?

Sunny and very hot, with the chance of a downpour in the afternoon. Heatwaves are no longer the exception -...

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Macedonia

Nine of 11 Public Drinking Fountains Work in Centar: The Small Thing We Only Notice at 38 Degrees

Centar municipality set aside three million denars, seven old fountains replaced with new ones. It remains to be seen whether...

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Macedonia

First Time in Decades a Street Toward Gorno Orizari Gets Paved: The Word That Weighs the Most Is „First Time“

4,000 square metres of asphalt, a new playground and a sports court in a neighbourhood where infrastructure was treated for...

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Macedonia

Kisela Voda Gets Its First Calisthenics Park and Beach Volleyball Court: The Small Thing That Changes a Neighbourhood

380 square metres of open sports zone with floodlights, in the 11 Oktomvri-Baraki neighbourhood. Places like this don't solve big...

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Macedonia

One Hour of Rain Drowned Bitola: the Same Street Collapsed Twice in Three Weeks, While a 4-Million-Denar Tender Went on Catering Services

„Who's going to pay for my laminate flooring?” asks a resident whose house is underwater. Debarska was being rebuilt. The...

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Macedonia

Sewage Flows Straight Into Lake Ohrid, but the Water Is „Safe for Swimming”: at Sveti Naum It's Just a Grinder, No Filters Since 2013

Along the whole stretch from Desaret to Sveti Naum, exactly one hotel is hooked up to the sewer collector. One....

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Macedonia

Tetovo's clock tower is being built after 20 years - with money from Konya and a look reconstructed by artificial intelligence

The foundations were uncovered in 2005. The project was judged a plagiarism, and everything stopped. Twenty years on, nobody knows...

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Macedonia

The road to Teferič lasted five months after repairs: against a landslide the municipality threw dirt and hay, now the state steps in

Nikoloski admits Kisela Voda and the City of Skopje lack the capacity for 70 metres of street. The deadlines are...

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Macedonia

"Parking of Municipality Centar" with 86 million denars in unpaid fees: books left unclosed, cash desk with no ledger, an adverse audit opinion

Every fourth denar owed to them has been sitting uncollected for over six years. The trading books allow backdated changes....

17 July 2026 Read more →