Wealthy South Tyrol - a little bit of Austria in Italy - is the latest bottleneck in Europe's refugee crisis. Angela Giuffrida finds a region battling with the consequences.
In the wake of the Islamist-inspired terror attack in Paris, a mosque in a building used by the Vienna Islamic Centre was defaced by Islamophobic graffiti on Thursday.
Which stories generated the most interest in Austria? The Local takes a look back at the most popular stories in each of the eight months of its brief existence.
Austrians love to party, but some of their traditions seem a little weird to expats. The Local takes a look at how this small Central European country brings in the new year.
When a nuclear bomb landed in the Gregg yard in South Carolina in 1958, it left a big crater, killed a few chickens, caused the family minor injuries and wrecked their Chevrolet.
A police crime scene reconstruction of the brutal ritual murder of a young woman in Saalfelden in Salzburg province descended into chaos on Monday after the victim’s parents tried to attack the suspect and police had to fight them off with pepper spray.
Austrian global drinks brand Red Bull has agreed to pay US$13 million (€10.4 million) in a class action lawsuit in New York over alleged deceptive advertising relating to its famous drinks.
The post has something for everybody, according to an Austrian Post slogan, but one pensioner received slightly more than she bargained for when she discovered she’d been sent a package of hashish from Holland.
According to a recent poll, nearly one fifth of those living in Austria, Southern Germany and German-speaking Switzerland suffer from some form of food intolerance or allergy.
Times Higher Education (THE) magazine has published its 2014-15 World University Rankings - the 11th annual edition of the globally trusted rankings, with one Austrian university only just managing to stay in the top 200.
Five streets signs near a mosque in Vienna have been pasted over with names like ‘Sharia street’ and ‘Isis-recruitment’ in what appears to be an anti-Muslim act.
Austrian composer and popular music singer Udo Jürgens is 80 years old on Tuesday September 30th - but claims to feel more like 50. He has a new album and continues to tour packed out concert halls across Europe.
Yuli Edelstein, Israel’s Knesset speaker, has said that Austria must help pressure Iran to give up its nuclear ambitions, as well as fight local neo-Nazi activity.
A tightened EU statistics office rulebook for government accounting swelled Austria’s debt to 81.2 percent of GDP in 2013, Statistik Austria announced on Tuesday.
A woman from Saudi Arabia, who was visiting Vienna for a few days, has been admitted to Kaiser-Franz-Josef hospital suffering from the deadly Mers coronavirus, in the first case of the disease in Austria.
Vienna street artist Tabby - who some see as Austria’s answer to renowned British graffiti artist Banksy - is holding a week-long “treasure hunt” in the capital in which he invites people to take part in daily challenges and perhaps be rewarded with one of his works.
One hundred refugees will be moving into temporary accommodation in Vienna’s 3rd district on Monday evening, from the overcrowded refugee reception centre in Traiskirchen.
