Austrian troops airlifted a group of German students stranded at a snowbound ski resort on Friday, as emergency services scrambled to clear record snowfall across large parts of the country.
The Hungarian captain of a tanker loaded with almost 300 tonnes of diesel fuel which ran aground in the Danube river at Langenzersdorf near Vienna was reportedly drunk in charge of the vessel, according to a report in the Kurier newspaper.
A herd of horses and ponies were involved in a "Great Escape" which saw a highway near the small town of Rutzenmoos in Upper Austria being blocked in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
A hiker trapped in the Austrian mountains was rescued after sending an SOS to the American makers of a GPS device who then sent it back around the world to the local mountain rescue team.
Residents of a small town in Austria could soon have their very own local superhero after someone claiming to be Batman wrote to the mayor to announce he is ready to take “action”.
Three cross country skiers from Vienna had to be rescued from the Dachstein mountain in Upper Austria on Sunday, after getting lost in a blizzard. The skiers made a snow cave to shelter in until the rescue team arrived.
An Austrian hiker who went missing in a forest in New Zealand after being separated from the group he was with has been rescued via helicopter after being spotted in a valley on Friday.
Austrian rescue workers have recovered from a cave the skeleton of a skier who is thought to have fallen to his death in the Alps decades ago, police said on Wednesday.
According to a report in Computerwelt, the Austrian Mobile Communications Forum announced that between January and June of 2014, there was a total of 1,746,785 emergency calls made via the mobile cell network, meaning around 9,704 calls per day.
In the early hours of Saturday morning, mountain and cave rescue teams announced that they had successfully rescued injured Polish explorer Marek G., who was seriously injured as the result of a fall while exploring a deep cave.
