06.06.26 NEWS ... Crowds, flags and banners filled the streets of Tallinn for the Baltic Pride march on Saturday, capping off a weeklong celebration of LGBT+ visibility, community and support.

05.06.26 NEWS ... Hidden in Australia for decades, an Estonian presidential flag saved from Soviet forces in 1944 has finally returned home after being donated to the Estonian National Museum.

04.06.26 NEWS ... An attack drill took place on Thursday (June 4) at Estonian Public Broadcasting's (ERR) as part of the large-scale security exercise Ilves 2026.

03.06.26 NEWS ... The new Nature House in Tallinn, right next to the Seaplane Harbour will be completed this year, and the Natural History Museum will open during 2027.

02.06.26 NEWS ... Ukrainian Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko arrived in Tallinn on her first official visit to Estonia on Tuesday and will meet with the prime minister and president.

02.06.26 NEWS ... Thousands of rubber ducks filled the Kadriorg Park canal in Tallinn Monday as the annual Duck Race returned to raise funds for children with cancer and their families.

02.06.26 NEWS ... Eight concrete antitank obstacles known as dragon's teeth were brought to Värska for local children to decorate with chalk during a communitywide Children's Day event Monday.

01.06.26 NEWS ... Music fans of all ages flocked to Tallinn's Proto Invention Factory on Sunday as the two-day Children's Jazz Festival Kräsh returned for its fourth edition.

30.05.26 NEWS ... The Police and Border Guard Board (PPA) has installed the first section of fixed counter-drone detection and surveillance systems on Estonia's eastern border.

29.05.26 NEWS ... A bus stop in Iisaku has taken on a new tune this summer, featuring an upcycled piano decorated by local children to mark 600 years of town history.

25.05.26 NEWS ... An iconic Setomaa landmark is back after reservists and U.S. allies teamed up during Estonia's Spring Storm exercise to rebuild a giant stone "7" on Seitsmemägi Hill.

24.05.26 NEWS ... Beekeepers across Estonia opened their apiaries to mark International Bee Day this weekend and to raise awareness of the role bees play in the environment.

20.05.26 NEWS ... Estonian co-produced movie "Vesna" got its Cannes Film Festival premiere before a full house Monday.

19.05.26 NEWS ... Developer G11 is planning to build a mixed-use building of up to 13 stories on Kompassi Square in central Tallinn, housing both commercial space and apartments.

19.05.26 NEWS ... This weekend, nearly a thousand punk music fans descended on Paavli Culture Factory as part of the Close-Up Båten festival in Tallinn.

17.05.26 NEWS ... Kristen Michal, chairman of the Reform Party, on Sunday said opposition conservative parties and their allies want to reverse Estonia's development, limit people's freedoms and distance the country from its allies and the party needs to act as a counterweight.

17.05.26 NEWS ... President Alar Karis met Moldovan President Maia Sandu in Kadriorg on Saturday and stressed that Moldova belongs in the European Union.

17.05.26 NEWS ... President Alar Karis called for the Balkan accession process to be sped up during a meeting with Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, saying the country had made significant progress towards joining the bloc.

13.05.26 NEWS ... Emergency services extinguished fires at two hangars in the village of Iru on the outskirts of Tallinn on Tuesday evening.

12.05.26 NEWS ... Tallinn Airport is planning to demolish its old passenger terminal, which is not have a protected status, to make way for a €75 million expansion. However, the National Heritage Board believes the building should be declared a cultural monument.

10.05.26 NEWS ... Shallow-sea sediments formed nearly 400 million years ago are now more visible than before after a partial collapse of the sandstone riverbank in Põlva County. Locals hope the newly exposed area will stay clean of graffiti.

09.05.26 NEWS ... Narva Museum rehung a banner calling Russia's President Vladimir Putin a "war criminal" on Saturday in response to the Russian authorities staging a propaganda concert in the border city of Ivangorod aimed at Estonia's residents.

10.05.26 NEWS ... In Narva, May 9 was celebrated as Europe Day with a large public concert on Town Hall Square.

08.05.26 NEWS ... The Kirna Manor Tulip Festival returns this spring with about 150 varieties on display, marking a strong comeback after wet weather last year wiped out many of their plants.

10.05.26 NEWS ... Hundreds of music lovers attended a free concert on Tallinn's Freedom Square on Saturday to mark Europe Day (May 9) and the event can be watched again on news.err.ee.

05.05.26 NEWS ... Authorities in the Russian border town of Ivangorod are preparing to hold another concert on May 9 for the residents of Narva across the river.

04.05.26 NEWS ... Vanilla Ninja reached Vienna and got straight to work this weekend, rehearsing an all-new stage show as the band prepares to compete for Estonia with "Too Epic to Be True."

02.05.26 NEWS ... With the recent arrival of warmer temperatures, over 10,000 daffodils are expected to flower over the next few days at a park in Järva County.

30.04.26 NEWS ... Estonia will host a meeting of the Nordic-Baltic (NB8) foreign ministers and the European Union's High Representative, Kaja Kallas, on the island of Saaremaa to discuss the geopolitical situation this week.

28.04.26 NEWS ... A weekend storm brought down a flagpole on Kukruse Hill, one of Ida-Viru County's prominent ash hills, but in nearby Püssi, the Estonian flag is still flying.

28.04.26 NEWS ... A demonstration took place outside the Ministry of Education in Tartu on Tuesday, highlighting the need to fund school field trips.

28.04.26 NEWS ... Clothing is celebrated as a vessel for memory in a new Estonian-Finnish photo exhibition that opened at the Pärnu Museum of New Art (MONA) this weekend.

27.04.26 NEWS ... Multiple passengers were injured after a bus was involved in a serious traffic accident on the Tallinn–Narva highway on Sunday afternoon.

26.04.26 NEWS ... Winter weather and strong winds have led to several traffic accidents – leaving three people injured – and fallen trees across Estonia this weekend.

25.04.26 NEWS ... A new international group exhibition opened at Tütar Gallery in Tallinn on Thursday, examining how control can feel safe while also becoming restrictive.

24.04.26 NEWS ... Tallinn-based New York native Zody Burke and Stockholm's Klara Zetterholm have teamed up for a joint exhibition in Tallinn examining how history is staged and reimagined.

22.04.26 NEWS ... President Alar Karis is on an official visit to Greece until Wednesday evening.

16.04.26 NEWS ... President Alar Karis said that security is based on close alliances during a state visit to Lithuania, where he met with President Gitanas Nausėda.

15.04.26 NEWS ... Anti-tank ditches for the Baltic Defense Line have started to be constructed in Setomaa, southeastern Estonia, mostly on private land in cooperation with the local community.

14.04.26 NEWS ... Just off Tallinn's Freedom Square, Vabaduse Gallery is hosting "Quintessence," a new group show by Estonian women's contemporary art collective Phoenix.

13.04.26 NEWS ... Large undulations have appeared on Tallinn's Town Hall Square this spring, prompting the city government to plan a €3 million renovation to restore the uneven pavement by 2028.

12.04.26 NEWS ... An exhibition by Finnish street artist EGS opened at the Tallinn Poco pop art museum, where the artist highlights works created in Estonia over decades and reveals his personal connection to Tallinn's fading industrial landscape.

04.04.26 NEWS ... Aarne Uku Elias, a longtime leader in the local Estonian diaspora community, was named Estonia's new honorary consul in Chicago Thursday.

01.04.26 NEWS ... The final Nordica jet took off from Tallinn Airport Tuesday, ending the airline's operations after its bankruptcy and the sale of all leased planes.

31.03.26 NEWS ... Parts of a drone were found in Tartu County, in southern Estonia, on Tuesday morning after a night of alarms about "potential air threats" as Ukraine continues its attacks on Russia's Baltic ports.

29.03.26 NEWS ... The Social Democratic Party on Sunday re-elected its current leader, Lauri Läänemets, as chairman at the party's general assembly.

28.03.26 NEWS ... Smoke from a fire at Russia's Ust-Luga port, hit in Ukrainian airstrikes this week, was visible in the distance from the Northeastern Estonian border city of Narva Saturday.

26.03.26 NEWS ... Wednesday marked 77 years since the Soviet March deportation, part of Operation Priboi, with candles lit and memorials held nationwide to honor the victims.

24.03.26 NEWS ... At Tallinn's Kumu Art Museum, "Pictures from Travels" showcases travel-inspired watercolors and drawings by Karin Luts, a leading Estonian artist of the 20th century.

21.03.26 NEWS ... March 21 is World Poetry Day, and Tallinn celebrated Saturday with a more than three-hour poetry walk through town featuring actors, writers and rising voices.