Kyustendil Province

Yellow code was announced for 7 districts in Bulgaria over intense rain, according to the website of the National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology (NIMH).

A car exploded in the village of Yahinovo in the Dupnitsa municipality, the press centre of Kyustendil Regional Directorate of the Ministry of Interior announced, quoted by Focus News Agency.

Minister of Tourism Stela Baltova has given the start to the debut tourist line of Europe's most powerful steam locomotive named Baba Metsa (Granny Bear), announced from BNR.

It starts the journey from Sofia to reach the western town of Kyustendil where the tourists on the train will be welcomed by tourist guides.

Novinite is publishing the English-language version of an investigation into the impact of ill-regulated coal mining on the life in Pernik in southwestern Bulgaria. The text by Bulgarian journalist Dimitar Sabev originally appeared on the independent Bulgarian website Bodil.bg. 

Warnings have been issued in several Bulgarian regions as black ice is expected in the country's west, the national weather service has said.

A Code Yellow alert is in force in the regions of Sofia-region, the City of Sofia, Pernik and Kyustendil, according to the National Insitute for Meteorology and Hydrology with the Bulgarian Academy of Science.

37 projects at a total value of EUR 16,910,099 will be implemented under the programme for cross border cooperation with Serbia.

Workers at the Bobov dol mines who threatened that they will not come out of the mine as a sign of protest against the reduction in salaries and their systematic delay have to the surface.

At the moment, negotiations are taking place between the syndicates of the mines and the management of the venture, reported BNR.

Twenty-six people, among them ten Bulgarian nationals, were injured as a Bulgarian-plated bus crashed in the area of Kriva Palanka, northeastern Macedonia, the Foreign Ministry in Sofia has said.

Bulgarian border police has instructed hunters on the actions they should take in case they stumble across refugees.

This was stated by Venko Kalinchev, the secretary of the hunting and fishing association Elen (Deer) based in the town of Kyustendil, in an interview for Darik radio on Thursday.

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.