An industrial group of Swiss origin wishes to build a methanol plant costing one billion euros in the northwest Estonian port town of Paldiski that would be the largest such facility in Europe and is ...

As of today, the Riga City Council's Traffic Department is headed by Agris Uplejs, LETA was informed by Riga City Council representative Laila Ivana. Agris Uplejs. The department's former acting ...

The Foreigners Registration Centre (FRC), managed by the Border Police Department in Pabrade has been operating for 15 years already. It was established in January, 1997, in the quarters of the Border ...

Today, on February 8, the world’s biggest submarine pipeline plough, PL3, arrived in the Baltic Sea on the deck of its mother ship, Far Samson. The subsea plough will be used to entrench the Nord ...

At the beginning of November 2011, an expedition took place in the Gulf of Finland, during which the wreckage of the pre-war Latvian icebreaker "Krisjanis Valdemars" was identified, the Port of Riga ...

The animated film studio "Dauka", which has been making animated films for forty years in Latvia, will halt production of new films for an indefinite period due to lack of funds, as producer Ansis ...

Rietumu shareholders’ meeting took place in Riga, where Consolidated and Bank Financial Statements and Independent Auditor’s – KMPG Baltics – Report for the year 2010 were approved. According to the ...

Archaeologists and divers have unearthed the remains of a medieval soldier from the underwater slope of Lake Asveja in eastern Lithuania, informs LETA/BNS. The human remains were found under a layer ...

On Sunday, a 1941 battle was re-enacted on the dyke connecting the islands of Saaremaa and Muhu, in the course of which German troops forced their way from the Island of Muhu to Saaremaa, writes ...

Latvia completed the switch from analog television to digital broadcasting overnight, Latvian State Radio and Television Center informed LETA. Analog broadcasting in Riga Region was turned off on ...

According to a survey, which purpose was to clarify what eye color the people of Latvia have, turned out that the most common eye color among citizens of Latvia is bluish-grey. The research, which was ...

Investigators on the so-called Daimler bribery case say that go-betweens had received over EUR 4.3 million to hand over to Riga municipal officials, the Corruption Prevention Bureau (CPB) reported ...