Zoran Mušič (1909-2005), an internationally acclaimed modernist painter and printmaker, will be honoured with a series of exhibitions in Slovenia and Italy as Nova Gorica and Gorizia have come together as the first cross-border European Capital of Culture

An ideologically divisive election campaign has been proposed after the largest party collected signatures for a referendum that would grant special pension allowances to prize-awarded artists, providing an extra income to a specific cultural elite

The humanitarian foundation of Goran Dragić, one of the greatest Slovenian basketball players of all time, will build a basketball court in Nova Gorica, on the border with Italy, whose two halves of the court will symbolically connect the two countries

The Slovenian Forest Service will close pheasant and partridge breeding operations in Beltinci, in the northeast, by May 1, marking the closure of the last such breeding facility in the country

Prison staff across the country protested for an hour on Thursday to draw attention to what they say is an alarming situation due to severe overcrowding in prisons, staff shortages and low wages