Focus News Agency

The Bulgarian energy regulator KEVR announced Sunday it was lowering a "duty to society" surcharge on power prices for industrial consumers.

New power rates are in force as of Sunday, November 1, 2015, Focus News Agency quotes KEVR head Ivan Ivanov as saying.

A new cyber attack targeted on Sunday the website of Bulgaria's Central Election Commission (CIK) during a run-off vote of local elections, officials say.

The attack was "weaker" compared to the one of last week, when the first round and a referendum on online voting were held, Prof Mihail Konstantinov, who heads state-owned Information Services company, has told Focus News Agency.

Police and national security agency DANS are carrying out a large-scale operation against vote-buying and other violations of electoral law, Bulgaria's Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has said.

Borisov told private national NOVA TV station on Friday morning that a special operation had been underway since 06:00 local time (EEST) to guarantee fair elections.

Bulgaria's Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has asserted the country is "actively working" tomake sure "everything" that regards gas transportation is fully state-owned.

Borisov made his remarks at a Tuesday ceremony marking the successful reconstruction and renovation of a gas compressor station in the town of Ihtiman, not far from the capital Sofia, was officially reopened on Tuesday.

A new application has been launched to give up-to-date information on traffic across Bulgaria, along with other important data, Regional Minister Lilyana Pavlova has said.

Pavlova told Focus News Agency on Wednesday that the new software was created under the EU's Operational Program Technical Assistance.

Tourism Minister Nikolina Angelkova has said that Bulgaria is to present a joint tourism product with "neighboring Balkan countries".

Fifty migrants have been detained near the southwestern town of Pernik, not far from Bulgaria's capital Sofia, local officials say.

District governor Irena Sokolova told Focus News Agency the migrants were found traveling in the carriage of a truck with a Pernik license plate en route to Kyustendil, another town located close to Bulgaria's borders with both Macedonia and Serbia.

Bulgaria's main ruling party GERB has announced the names it has endorsed to run for mayors of the country in the October 25 local elections.

A man of Arab origin has died after being stabbed in the center of Sofia, Bulgaria, police say.

The incident took place on Sunday, a little before 13:00 EEST, police officials told Focus News Agency.

An investigation is underway.

More to follow.

Bulgaria didn't quit the South Stream gas pipeline project, Energy Minister Temenuzhka Petkova has said.

Petkova is quoted by Focus News Agency as telling reporters that Sofia always perceived South Stream to be "a very important project", but it had to be realized in compliance with European law.