The skies will mostly clear across the country during the day on Wednesday. Morning temperatures will range from -5 to 3 degrees Celsius and daytime highs between 2 and 7 - up to 12 are expected on the coast.

Slovenian physicist Marcos Bavdaž, who heads the technology department at the European Space Agency (ESA) in the Netherlands, received the ESA Director General's Award for Innovation in Science and Technology in Paris last week.

A railway overpass in Solkan in the west that was damaged by a concrete mixer earlier this month has been temporarily repaired, so the the railway between Anhovo and Nova Gorica will be reopen this afternoon, the Slovenian Railways said.

The agriculture company KŽK Kmetijstvo has lost the court battle for the farmland it leased from the national Farmland Fund, the newspaper Dnevnik reported on Tuesday. Some three years ago, former Agriculture Minister Jože Podgoršek was embroiled in the long-standing dispute and had to resign over an incident involving KŽK.

More than 311,000 tourist arrivals were recorded in accommodation facilities in Slovenia in November, up 19.7% compared to the same month last year. They spent 756,000 nights in Slovenia, up 14.4% year-on-year. In the first eleven months of the year, tourists arrivals were up by 6% and nights by 5%.

Mountain rescuers have suspended the rescue campaign for a Hungarian hiker in the Kamnik-Savinja Alps due to bad weather conditions. Wind gusts in the area are such that they do not allow rescuers to reach the hiker, who is in a hard-to-access area, head of the operation Jernej Lanišek from the Kamnik Mountain Rescue Service told the STA.

Slovenia celebrates 15 public holidays each year that are also designated as days off work. In 2025, 10 of these holidays will fall on weekdays, two on Saturdays, and three on Sundays. As many as four of them will create extended weekends, although there will be fewer holidays on weekdays compared to this year.