Villach, Austria News

Telekom Austria Group has drawn out plans to invest EUR 1.5 billion in Austria for upgrading telecommunications infrastructure over the next four years.

By David Rogers Carinthian cops had their hands full with drink drivers this weekend.

A Carinthian driver tried to run a police car off the road during a high speed car chase that only ended when cops started firing warning shots at him, police have said.

Farmers in the European Union may enjoy generous agricultural subsidies, but market prices for their produce - including dairy products - falling sharply in recent months means they too are finding it difficult to make ends meet.

Some 20,000 Austrian students from 140 schools are expected to participate in "Run Miracle 09" on Thursday to raise money for the needy.

By Thomas Hochwarter A pensioner is recovering in hospital after she spent days trapped on a bathroom floor.

What my friend Janice and I thought would be a simple trip to Ljubljana , the capital of Slovenia, turned out to be anything but simple.

Carinthian authorities said yesterday an electrical defect had probably caused a big fire at the Worther Lake Friday night that destroyed 14 boats after ruling out arson.

By Thomas Hochwarter An amateur geologist was left hospitalised after a one ton granite rock fell on him at a stone pit in Carinthia.

Burgenland police found 3,000 kilos of copper cable worth 10,000 Euros in a Hungarian van early yesterday morning.

Hundreds of Carinthians were left terrified thinking they had been hit by an earthquake after a meteorite exploded over their homes early yesterday .

IT'S SPRING AND MINI'S TOP IS DOWN BUT WHEN TESTED IT WAS SNOWING! At Mini stores across American, the new drop top, convertible is on display.

Three Carinthian boys were left hospitalised after a drinking binge on Friday. The trio, aged 11 to 13, from Feistritz in Villach district, downed a bottle of brandy they had taken from a pantry in an apartment building.

The number of Austrian workers in part-time status because of the recession stood at 47,158 at 231 firms yesterday .

A disabled Austrian woman was stopped by police as she trundled along a motorway in her motorised wheelchair.

A man already known to the police was clocked driving through Villach's inner city in Carinthia at 100 kilometers an hour yesterday evening .

Struggling German chip producer Infineon Austria is putting half of its labour force in Carinthia, Styria and Upper Austria onto part-time hours.

Commercial application of a MEMS scanning device developed by The Fraunhofer-Institut fur Photonische Mikrosysteme has been demonstrated at the Smart Systems Integration 2009 show.

The wife of late Carinthian Governor and Alliance for the Future of Austria leader Jorg Haider has come out in support of Klagenfurt BZO mayoralty candidate Christian Scheider.

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