The Rigas siltums (Riga Heat) heating company is to sack 230 people next spring after it lost a public procurement deal, reported Latvian Radio October 17.
The Latvian Finance Ministry has spent 100,000 euros on publicizing and promoting the contents of its 2018 budget among a selection of media outlets, Latvian Radio's Edgars Kupčs reported October 13.
A sports event in the Jūrmala resort town has drawn criticism from opposition councilors as €80,000 in public funds will be spent on what appears to be a small-scale run, reported Latvian Radio on September 26.
Two adolescents were hospitalized on September 20 after complaining of illness, perhaps tied to stink in the Vecmīlgrāvis neighborhood near Riga Free Port.
Latvia has no oil reserves since mid-summer, after a procurement dispute has disrupted the annual procurement. Currently the government would have to announce a state of emergency to obtain oil needed for hospital generators, telecoms hubs and other places, reports Latvian Radio on September 14.
On the evening of September 12 two people were hospitalized with breathing problems after a huge stink broke out in the Vecmīlgrāvis neighborhood near Riga Free Port, reports Latvian Radio.
After just two months in power, the Harmony party may be ousted from ruling Latvia's second-largest city Daugavpils as a local party has broken off from the ruling coalition.
Within a month, public consultations are to start over building a business center on Zaķusala (Hare Island) beside the Latvian Television building, with an estimated €65m to be attracted from investors. The city of Riga meanwhile hopes to use the island to build a fun park complete with a Ferris wheel, reports Latvian Radio.
With the influx of EU funds, Jelgava - the fourth largest city in Latvia - has largely shed its reputation for a sorry state of roads. However, just 120 km out of the city's 260-km road network are covered with a hard surface while the rest have a gravel surface and some vehicle paths are just grooves in the soil.
The Riga city plan to build a 12 km, €3m bike path connecting the Imanta and Daugavgrīva neighborhoods has been criticized as non-priority, reports Latvian Radio.
An entrepreneur in the Latvian countryside has had a kilometer-long stretch of state-owned gravel road asphalted at his own cost.
The Riga bus terminal will continue operations and won't be moved during the construction of the giant high-speed Rail Baltica link, reported Latvian Radio on July 11.
The head of the Jelgava City Orphanage has stepped down on June 8 following allegations of violence and abuse against children as part of an investigation into state-provided childcare by Latvian Radio.
Russia has almost completely ceased rail freight deliveries through Latvian ports, according to freight volume data reported by Latvia-based Russian news outlet Meduza.io.
Several Latvian citizens, including teenagers, were at the concert venue in Manchester, northern England where a suspected terrorist attack was perpetrated on May 22. Local Latvian Jana Matulone related the scene she witnessed as she went to bring her daughter home from the concert, reported Latvian Radio.
Riga is going to give a new meaning to the idea of 'spending a penny' with the building of two public toilets, worth €90,000 each, according to a plan by a City Council department, reported Latvian Radio on May 17.
The Saeima's Human Rights and Public Affairs Committee on May 10 probed misleading and possibly Kremlin-friendly infotainment messages by the Riga City Council shown inside Riga minibuses, reported Latvian Radio.
The design by Danish architect firms PLH Arkitekter and COWI will be used to reconstruct Riga Central Railway Station for the Rail Baltica project, reported Latvian Radio on March 22. Local architects however say too little thought has been put into plans for developing the neighborhood around the crucial transport hub.
