A 19th-century wooden forester's lodge located at Rydzowa Street in Warsaw's southernmost residential neighbourhood of Kabaty will get renovated, Warsaw City Hall announced. The renovation, under the watch of the city historic preservation office, will take 18 months.

It was two metres tall and stood in the middle of Dąbrowskiego Street in the centre of Leszno (Greater Poland Voivodeship). A police patrol was dispatched to deal with the unusual "pedestrian". The officers have took photos from this non-ordinary intervention.

A 60-year-old woman got a call from a hospital in Gdańsk Zaspa district about her dying father. At the time, she was at Gdynia Główna railway station. She needed to get to the hospital as soon as possible, so she took a cab. When they arrived at the destination, the driver said the charge was 595 zlotys. The distressed woman under time pressure paid the alarmingly high fee and rushed to the hospital. A few days later, the taxi company apologised for the situation and promised to return the money to the woman. The story was reported by trojmiasto.pl portal.

Validity of EU COVID-19 certificates, issued both after the basic vaccination and booster shots, will be shortened to 270 days, Poland's Health Ministry reminds.

A wall of a desolate tenement house collapsed in the centre of Poland's southern city of Bielsko-Biała. "A courtyard-side wall has collapsed. We're searching the debris to make sure no one was hurt," said Aneta Gołębiowska from Silesian Fire Service.

The police are investigating what caused fire which broke out at New Year's Eve at a balcony and apartment at Jugosłowiańska Street in Warsaw. Investigators aren't yet certain whether the fire was sparked by fireworks, which is what the witnesses claim. Expert witness opinion is to provide answers to what really happened.

U.S. Embassy Chargé d'Affaires Bix Aliu has expressed his best wishes to the Polish people. "It was another good year for Polish-American relations," he said in a tweet.

A bundle with a faded piece of paper from 1972 and a coin from that period have been found by an employee of a workshop hired to renovate a cross from a historic wayside shrine in Kazimierz Dolny. This peculiar time capsule was hidden there during previous renovation of this heritage site. Now, the city authorities have to decide whether to place the capsule in a museum, or to put it back inside an orb attached to the cross. Furthermore, an idea to create a new capsule has also emerged.

Warsaw police have detained an extremely dangerous driver who was driving against the traffic, ignoring red lights, and chasing people off pavements. During his crazy run, he also smashed into a dozen of other vehicles. One woman was taken to hospital, while another received medical help on the spot.

Fifteen restaurants in Poznań prepared 450 meals for people in homelessness crisis who are under the care of the City Family Support and Social Emergency Centre. This was the third edition of "Let's cook some goodness together" charity action.

Poland coach Paulo Sousa's contract has been terminated by the Polish Football Association on Wednesday, president Cezary Kulesza said just days after the Portuguese's request had initially been rejected.

Polish prosecutors said on Wednesday they would not investigate an allegation that the phone of a high-profile government critic was hacked, amid accusations that opposition figures have been subject to illegal surveillance.

Emil C., a Polish soldier who has recently defected to Belarus, was sentenced on Wednesday to six months community service for mentally and physically abusing his mother. He was also served a one-year restraining order and told to stop excessive drinking. The soldier also has an arrest warrant issued after him, and is facing 10 years in prison for defection.

The Ministry of Health informed on Wednesday about 15,571 new cases of coronavirus infection and 794 COVID-related deaths, the highest number of daily fatalities in the fourth wave of the pandemic.

Russia's Supreme Court ordered the country's oldest human rights group to disband on Tuesday for breaking a law requiring it to act as "a foreign agent", capping a year of crackdowns on Kremlin critics unseen since the Soviet era. Poland's President Andrzej Duda and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed their concern and disappointment with the decision, as well as praised Memorial Society for its contribution in uncovering Soviet crimes.

A Polish opposition senator who believes his phone was hacked using sophisticated spyware developed by the Israel-based NSO Group has accused prosecutors of failing to act on the case, viewing it as a "hot potato" to be passed between offices.

Poland hopes to make progress in negotiations with the new Czech government over the open-pit lignite Turow mine near the border, Poland's prime minister said on Tuesday, referring to the most serious spat between the two European Union members in decades.

A 67-year-old German woman named Maria has been living in a forest near Kłobuck in Silesian Voivodeship for over a decade now. In the summer she used to sleep under a tree, using her backpack as a pillow. In the winter people kept on calling the police to save her from freezing, but she always comes back to the forest. She claims she is a doctor. The woman likes to talk and communicate through sign language. She knows German, English, and French. When she was hungry, the woman used to come to a local village for food. Reportedly, her family once took her back to Germany, but she returned to Poland. Last week, Maria was taken to a hospital for observation. We have asked local residents, social worker and the police about her.

Unvaccinated people, seniors, and those suffering from pre-existing diseases are most likely to face "the most tragic of possibilities" after contracting coronavirus, Health Ministry spokesman Wojciech Andrusiewicz said on Tuesday. This way he commented on the latest daily coronavirus report, according to which as many as 410 out of 549 of the latest COVID-related fatalities were unvaccinated people.

TVN Discovery Group has issued a statement regarding President Andrzej Duda's veto of the media reform bill, known as lex TVN.

On Dec. 26, 1918, the city of Poznań submerged in pitch black darkness. Local residents lit torches and paper lanterns to shed light for Poland's future prime minister Ignacy Jan Paderewski who arrived in the town that day. One such lantern has been preserved - it's 103 years old and belongs to Roman Trojanowicz's collection.

Three Home Army veterans, who took part in the Warsaw Uprising, have passed away during Christmas holidays - Maria Schejbal alias "Marzena", Maria Pajzderska "Marysia", and Ryszard Nowicki "Sokół".

Poland's President Andrzej Duda has decided to veto the media reform bill targeting Discovery-owned TVN channel.

Poland coach Paulo Sousa asked to end his contract by mutual consent after getting an offer from Brazilian top-flight club Flamengo but Polish football association president Cezary Kulesza has rejected the request.

Poland's Justice Minister and Prosecutor General Zbigniew Ziobro announced on Thursday he would ask the country's Constitutional Tribunal to declare the the EU rule of law conditionality mechanism is not compatible with the Polish constitution.

According to the latest data, eight new cases of Omicron variant of the coronavirus have been detected, which originated from two previously confirmed outbreaks - in Warsaw and Gdańsk, Health Ministry spokesperson Wojciech Andrusiewicz told Radio Plus on Thursday. He added that a total of 15 cases of Omicron have been detected in Poland so far.

Discovery, Inc. announced on Wednesday that the European Commission (EC) has granted unconditional antitrust clearance of the Company's proposed acquisition of AT&T Inc.'s WarnerMedia business.

Poland reported 775 COVID-related deaths on Friday, the highest daily number in the fourth wave of the coronavirus pandemic, the data from the health ministry showed.

"We already raised concerns some time ago because this new media law has been adopted - surprisingly for me because I really hope it will be discussed further - but it was adopted already in the context of a very problematic situation of media in Poland. Some speak about of politicision of media landscape in Poland," the Vice President of the European Commission for Values and Transparency Vera Jourova told TVN24 reporter Sebastian Nepieraj on Wednesday.

"This judgement puts into question whether the rules, which the EU is based on, still apply in Poland," the Vice President of the EU Commission Vera Jourova told TVN24 on Wednesday. She was referring to the ruling issued by Poland Constitutional Tribunal earlier this year, which has challenged the EU law primacy over national laws. "The Tribunal itself raises doubts whether it’s still an independent court," she added. Earlier that day, the EU executive has launched an infringement procedure against Poland over said ruling.