Pernik

Just days before miners' professional day on August 18, Bulgarian supplier GIPS JSC is celebrating on Thursday the 50th anniversary since its gypsum processing plant was set up in the village of Koshava near Vidin, Northwestern Bulgaria.

An art fest, a music fest, and a colors fest - here are three major events taking place in and around Sofia this weekend.

The Water Tower Art Fest, running June 20-28, kicks of at 18:00, Saturday, and will feature video projections, installations, an exhibition, performances at public spaces, and lots of experimental music.

Bulgaria's Pernik Municipality seeks a short-term interest-free loan of BGN 5 M from the central budget in order to cope with debts.

The Pernik Municipal Council decided on Monday at an extraordinary meeting that the loan was a life-saving measure to ensure the further development of the municipality.

The US has decided on monitoring air quality around its embassies across the world.

The statement was made by the US State Secretary John Kerry on Monday.

Code orange has been issued for Bulgaria's Smolyan municipality on Friday on account of the heavy rains and expected thunderstorms.

The other twenty seven areas of the country have been warned with a yellow code due to the heavy rains and possible snow storms.

Deputy Parliament Speaker Rositsa Yanakieva passed away in the small hours of Monday, her party ABV's press office reports.

Yanakieva had been in a coma for days after a haemorrhage of the brain on January 6.

A former Mayor of Pernik for two consecutive terms (2005-2014), a town near the capital Sofia, she was elected MP in the October 5 early elections.

The Deputy Chair of Bulgarian Parliament Rositsa Yanakieva was admitted urgently to the Military Medical Academy early on Tuesday morning.

The information was confirmed by the press office of her party Alternative for Bulgarian Revival (ABV), electronic daily Dnevnik reports.

On New Year's Eve Sofia traffic police hands out presents to motorists with minor violations, instead of fining them, reports BGNES.

Eighteen Bulgarian cities have "extremely polluted" air in the past several days, shows data of the Executive Environment Agency, reports Nova TV.

The fine dust particles in the air of Sofia, Gorna Oryahovitsa, Pleven, Pernik, Burgas and Dimitrovgrad exceed the norms three-four times.

Ognyan Borisov, head of the Regional Inspectorate of Environment and Water (RIEW) in the town of Pernik, has been arrested for soliciting a bribe.

A special police operation conducted by the Criminal Police Directorate of the Interior on Tuesday resulted in the arrest of Borisov and another official of the Pernik-based RIEW unit.