Macedonia

Fire on Skopje's South Boulevard: A Warehouse Burned, a Firefighter Injured

While all of us stare at the smoke and film it on our phones, into it walk the people whose...

06 July 2026 Read more →

Macedonia

They're Drilling at Vardarište, but There Are No Results: First We Dig, Then We Find Out What's Inside

22 wells, a promised park of 300,000 square meters - and the City of Skopje is silent on both the...

05 July 2026 Read more →

Macedonia

New Rules for Pedal Boats on Ohrid: A Life Vest for Everyone, but Will the Campaign Last Longer Than the First Weekend?

Ohrid police demand seaworthy pedal boats and vests for children - common sense packaged into a campaign that has to...

05 July 2026 Read more →

Macedonia

Kumanovo's Care Home Runs on 36 Staff Instead of 80: The Care of 170 Souls on the Backs of a Few

No social worker, no lawyer, no HR - yet the facility cares for over 170 elderly people from all across...

05 July 2026 Read more →

Macedonia

After 26 Years, the Secondary Police School Returns: Reform, or Bringing Back What We Scrapped Ourselves?

The Interior Ministry wants 200 students for the Police Academy - good news, but why did something important sit idle...

05 July 2026 Read more →

Macedonia

Thirty buildings on an erosion-prone slope above Skopje: the municipality admits the danger on paper, but the plan stays silent

The Vodno terrain is officially flagged as erosion-threatened, with a recommendation to plant forest. The plan calls for building instead...

04 July 2026 Read more →

Macedonia

The deer Bambi survived the trap, but it exposed a bigger wound: who actually protects wildlife in Macedonia?

An injured fawn is being saved by volunteers and private clinics, because a state with a wildlife centre - we...

04 July 2026 Read more →

Macedonia

A reshuffle?

Реконструкцијата отвора едно суштинско прашање: ако по  две години од мандатот се признава дека дел од министрите не работеле доволно...

03 July 2026 Read more →

Macedonia

The Macedonian Passport Opens 127 Countries, but Serbia Is 7 Places Ahead of Us and Slovenia Is Where We Want to Be

A hundred and twenty-seven visa-free countries is no cause for self-congratulation when the neighbors who set off alongside us moved...

03 July 2026 Read more →

Macedonia

Debar Ran Dry at Noon, and the Blame Was Pinned on the Citizen With a Hose in the Garden

Every summer the same picture: restrictions, appeals and emergency measures - but nobody measures the water losses that have leaked...

03 July 2026 Read more →

Macedonia

46 of 81 Municipalities Spent Nothing on Crosswalks for Three Years: Why They're Invisible

560,000 people live where the crossings have faded because nobody put out a tender. In some places the price runs...

02 July 2026 Read more →

Macedonia

End of Free Transport in Kumanovo After Three and a Half Years: Tickets Back to 30-120 Denars

The municipal council scrapped a subsidy introduced during the energy crisis. If the reasons held three and a half years...

02 July 2026 Read more →